MAY 1 is celebrated in a special way both in the Church and in our civil society. In our liturgical calendar, it is the memorial of St. Joseph the Worker, and in our civil society, it is National Labor’s Day. Both focus on the importance of...
WE are now in the Easter season, extending the happy celebration of the Resurrection of Christ, that tremendous and overwhelming divine gift that re-creates us and reconciles us with God our Father from whom we come and to whom we belong. We gleefully sing Happy Easter,...
I WAS not surprised at all when I recently read somewhere that this selfie craze that seems to be sweeping the world these days, especially in our country, is an indication of a mental disorder. I imagine that the practice really has to be an obsession...
LET’S give due attention to this need of raising and training leaders. We cannot and should not take this for granted. We should not think that leaders would just come out of the blue, whether we like or not, whether we do something about it...
LET’S go back again to those beautiful words of Christ about rest, relishing them and deepening our understanding of them if only to develop the proper and relevant attitudes, skills and practices, so helpful to us who are often harassed by a lot of work,...
THERE’S, of course, a good and a bad poverty. The bad one is common and obvious enough to see, and we have every right and duty to eliminate it. It comes in many forms, like widespread hunger, systemic illiteracy and ignorance, massive confusion and unemployment,...
I CONSIDER it a great blessing that in our country we still enjoy a tremendous amount of popular piety. This January, for example, we have the celebration in many places of the feast of the Sto. Nino that draws a lot of crowd in a...
A STORY is said about Alexander the Great who astounded a beggar who only asked for some alms but instead was given the government of five cities. When the beggar expressed his consternation, Alexander just said: “You asked like the man you are. I give...
WITH the rapid developments nowadays, especially in the fields of the sciences and technology, we need to adjust our personal settings, and later on our collective settings, so as not to lose our proper bearings as we go through the new experiences, insights and challenges...
CHILL out! Let’s be cool. It’s not yet the end of the world. Though I’m no seer, I don’t think we have serious basis to think the world’s end is already in the offing. It’s understandable that with the big earthquake and the supertyphoon that...
