AD astra per aspera. That’s the motto of a school where I was assigned once as its chaplain. It means “To the stars through hardships.” It’s a way to encourage the students to aspire for the best without fear of the sacrifices involved. The motto certainly...
WE need to tackle this big challenge of our time. How do we live temperance in this very intoxicating and addicting world of the social media and the digital gadgets today? We now are all too familiar with the signs of addiction afflicting people, both...
“WHOEVER loves his father or mother more than me is not worthy of me…” (Mt 10,37) These are some intriguing words Christ spoke to his apostles. They are intriguing to us as well. We, of course, love both God and our parents, but sometimes we do...
OF COURSE, in its ideal state, love will always be sweet. In fact, it is going to be a bliss where God “will wipe every tear from the eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of...
RELAX! Don’t take life’s problems too seriously. They will have their time, but surely they will not have all the time. There’s a time for everything. Things in this life come and go. The only permanent thing and the only thing that can avoid the...
MANY people would say it is a matter of the mind, as in mind over matter, or as in a matter of psychologising oneself. In a sense, or at least partially, what they say is correct. But there’s a lot more that is involved in...
THE Solemnity of the Transfiguration of the Lord somehow reminds us that there is a forever. When Christ transfigured himself before his three apostles Peter, James and John, he tried to reassure them not to worry about what was going to happen to him on...
IT may give us the sensation that we are chasing rainbows, boiling the ocean, tilting at windmills, going in circles, but actually figuring out what God’s will for us is at any given moment is the most objective reality that we should try our best...
IT’S definitely a lifelong affair. We can never say we already enjoy integrity in this life, because in the next breath we would already know that we have to struggle to keep at least some semblance of it. Such is our condition here in this life....
“LET them grow together until harvest.” That was the answer of the master in one of the parables about the kingdom of heaven. (cfr Mt 13,24-43) He was telling the servants to let the weeds sown by his enemy to grow together with the wheat....
