THAT’S Latin for “not many, but much,” a reference to how our loving and self-giving should be or how our generosity is shown. What it means is that our loving is not so much a matter of quantity as of quality, not so much of...
TAKING care of our culture may appear to be too much for each one of us to be concerned about. But make no mistake about it. Each one of us definitely has a grave duty to take care of it. Culture may sound too big...
WE have to develop an abiding and burning desire to fulfill the real purpose of our life. We should be clear about this ultimate purpose of ours so we can have the proper sense of direction and focus in our life, and the corresponding urge...
The second of the four problems after marginalization identified by PCL is the current assistance being provided to older people. It has found out that the so-called "institutional care" is already obsolete and no longer helpful. The main reason is: it segregates the elderly from...
September 14, 2020 Tulo ka bahin, sa unang pagbasa, Old Testament reading, ang mga Israelitas sa disyerto nakasinati pud sila murag COVID-19. Giatake sila’g mga serpent, mapaakan patay gyud, naglibog na sila, nag-gubot na sila. Ang main nga mensahe nagbagulbol sila, nagmahay sila. And then the...
In his recent encyclical letter Fratelli Tutti, Pope Francis writes: “the Church, while respecting the autonomy of political life, does not restrict her mission to the private sphere. On the contrary, “she cannot and must not remain on the sidelines” in the building of a...
IT’S good that from time to time we again read about the many miracles Christ performed that are recorded in the gospels if only to be strongly reminded of God’s power that we seem, little by little, to take for granted and ignore today. We always...
MANY people have asked me how true freedom, the one that really comes from God, feels. Of course, what is presumed behind that query is that there are so many ideas about what true freedom is and how it should feel such that people often...
WE need to know what our proper rest really is. Nowadays, people have different and even conflicting ideas about what it is. For some it is purely something physical. For others, it is more on the emotional and psychological side. There are those who think that...
THAT can easily be surmised from what Christ said in the gospel of St. Matthew. “Some of the scribes and Pharisees said to Jesus, ‘Teacher, we wish to see a sign from you.’ He said to them in reply, ‘An evil and adulterous generation seeks...