THIS is the ideal condition for us to be in. Given the way we are, as willed by God himself, our Creator and Father, we need to be always with him all the time even as we go through our earthly and temporal affairs. To...
ONCE again, we are reminded of this need for vigilance in that gospel episode where Christ reminded his disciples to be like the servants who “await their master’s return from a wedding, ready to open immediately when he comes and knocks.” (Mt 12,36) He prefaced this...
CHRIST said it clearly. “If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For he that will save his life, shall lose it; and he that shall lose his life for my sake, shall find...
IN SPITE of our desire to continue doing things, we cannot deny that there are times when for one reason or another we would just lose steam and somehow feeling trapped in a condition of inactivity. It’s a classic example of what Christ once said:...
ONE liturgical prayer I met sometime ago went this way: “Grant, we pray, almighty God, that we, who have been renewed by paschal remedies, transcending the likeness of our earthly parentage, may be transformed in the image of our heavenly maker.” I found that prayer very...
WHILE logic will always have an important role to play in our life, we should also realize that logic alone cannot cope with all the realities that we have to deal with in our life. Our logic can only work within the natural plane and...
AUGUST 4 being a Memorial of St. John Mary Vianney, patron saint of priests, is a good occasion to review who a priest is and how he should be. St. John Mary Vianney (1786-1859), also known as the Cure of Ars, can provide us with...
YES, we have to learn the art of how to end our day well. That’s because it is our way also of how to end our life well, ready to meet God in judgment. We just have to be realistic about the real purpose of...
I SUPPOSE this condition is understandable. But we need to do something about it, because whether we like it or not, the reality that governs us goes far beyond the material and the sensible and even the intelligible. We have to deal with things spiritual...
CHRIST’S parable about the Kingdom of heaven being compared to a net thrown into the sea and catching all sorts of fish after which the good fishes were put into a bucket while the bad ones were thrown away certainly reminds us that at the...