For decades, our catechists spend their productive life proclaiming the teachings of the Church. This labor of love must be sustained amidst the headwinds of the 21st century. Today, the Church needs young catechists to continue proclaim the teachings of the Church but the Church fears...
Eighty-one percent of the 100 million Filipinos are Catholics. Unfortunately, the percentage rate of 81% is going down for many reasons. For one, the evangelical sects are more aggressive in their missionary efforts. Second they have effectively used hi-tech ways like television, radio, internet, computers, cellphones,...
“The family that prays together stays together.” This slogan made popular by the Servant of God Fr. Patrick Peyton in his Rosary Crusade is very significant this year as we celebrate The Year of the Eucharist and the Family. What holds families together is their...
Seafarers encounter a lot of dangers and discomforts travelling on the great, wide, and endless seas. Some of them died while on duty. As we celebrate National Seafarers’ Day, let us remember the hardships our seafarers encounter daily over the ocean like being deprived of the...
There are a lot of commonalities that we can see in saints. But for these five saints whose feasts are celebrated closely everyday these coming days, we can mention at least two commonalities. First, they are called to suffer. Though only San Lorenzo Ruiz is a...
In the history of man, killings and bloodshed may be considered as abandonment of God. But that should not be the case. Scriptures and Tradition would attest that God always tries to reach out to man. He has plans for mankind. He knows what is...
"Man is by nature and vocation a religious being. Coming from God, going toward God, man lives a fully human life only if he freely lives by his bond with God” (CCC 44). Bonded to God who is holy, man is destined for holiness. The Catechism further states...
The duty of Christians to take part in the life of the Church impels them to act as witnesses of the Gospel and of the obligations that flow from it (CCC 2472). Every Catholic then is called to live out his baptism both in word...
Santa Maria is the most honored, revered and influential woman in the history of the world. Magnificent cathedrals have been built around the world in her name like Rome’s Santa Maria Maggiore and our Lady of Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. Women and men have dedicated...
Mary, Our Lady of the Assumption, was born free of original sin. Her answer to the angel “may it be done unto me according to thy word” was a faith borne from a critical and wise mind in constant communion with her God. While she was...