SUFFERING is unavoidable in our life. Anyone who thinks otherwise is certainly out of touch with reality and is going through the worst kind of suffering that has no meaning, when, in fact, with Christ, suffering is literally dripping with meaning and redemptive power. We need...
I THINK that we can safely presume that we try our best to live patience. That’s because whether we like it or not, we certainly cannot avoid all sorts of difficulties, challenges, trials, pains and sorrows that require us or even force us to be patient. Our...
THIS should be very clear to all of us. We have to be merciful ourselves, because God who is our Father is merciful. Christ himself said it openly: “Be merciful as your Father is merciful.” (Lk 6,36) In the Holy Bible, numerous references to the mercy...
WE all, from time to time, need to be alone. Many of us do so because we want some space, some rest, some escape from what we consider as drudgery of life, or from some problem that we want to sort out, or simply that...
THAT’S “persons with disability” or “people with disabilities.” We have to distinguish their many kinds if only to better know how to care for them. This is part of the new sensitivity we should develop as the world becomes more complex each day. Remember that St....
TO be sure, Pentecost which celebrates the coming of the Holy Spirit is not an event in the past that at best is merely to be remembered if we care. It continues to take place up to now. In the first place, every liturgical celebration is...
WITH the recent celebration of the Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord, we have to strongly remind ourselves that our thoughts and desires should somehow start and end with heaven. This much, at least St. Paul tells us in very clear terms: “Set your hearts on...
THIS is a task we have to do, obviously with God’s grace. But I wonder if many people are aware of it, and if they are, if they are really dead serious in carrying out that duty. Restoring our divine image, of course, presumes that we have...
RATHER than be sceptical, cynical and all negative about it, let’s be hopeful, confident and determined to develop and live the virtue of chastity. Yes, it’s still possible, and in fact is highly possible to live this virtue that nowadays is practically written off as...
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...
