We need to be ready to react properly whenever we fall. We cannot simply remain in the level of our instincts and feelings when this thing happens. And since falling is rather a common occurrence, we really need to know how to deal with it,...
NO, I didn’t have the privilege of meeting St. Josemaria Escriva in person, though I got in touch with Opus Dei five years before he died in 1975. I was then an 18-year-old junior student in college in Manila who was looking for a place...
YES, we need to be eager and quick to help others. We should never be indifferent to the needs of others even if we have our own needs and predicaments. Actually, our attitude of interceding for others has a way of resolving or at least...
THIS is something we have to understand very well. If we really are true to our Christian faith, if we believe that we are the image and likeness of God and children of his through Christ in the Holy Spirit, then we have to realize...
I LOVE love songs. I listen to them whenever I can, but especially when driving for hours in my out-of-town trips. Of course, they make me feel good and the driving less tiring. If my skills are up to it, I sing along with my heart,...
IN the face of the many good developments taking place today, we have to be ready to quickly rectify our thoughts and intentions so that we avoid getting easily carried away by the passing if not false allurements that these achievements and accomplishments usually bring. This...
With all the pieces of news that are bombarded on us 24/7, we should never forget that there is the Good News that can and should serve as the constant context of all news items that come our way. This Good News will never fade. It...
YES, we should all have an abiding concern for accounting everything that we are and that we have. We just cannot go on with our life as if we are not answerable to anybody, especially to God, from whom we all come and to whom...
“MOTHER most pure, Mother most chaste.” These are some of the titles we attribute to our Lady, the Blessed Virgin Mary, in the litany addressed to her. They tell us to whom we have to go and ask for help in our lifelong search and...
IT’S a question many people are asking nowadays. Some are worried of the undeniable peripheral damage it has caused on many people, especially the young. We cannot deny that forms of addiction, of wasting time, of exposing users to moral dangers, are appearing. These problems...
