What are the "signs" of these human gestures syllabically put as L-D-W-T? The first sign common to all letters is physical presence. This happens when you see, hear, touch, smell the needy poor. This is flesh and blood human being like myself/ourselves. This can have a...
THOUGH we may see the defects and mistakes of the others, we have to learn to look kindly at them all the time. We have to realize that seeing and looking are two different acts. Seeing is just in the level of our sense perception,...
IF we want to flow with the changing times without getting confused or lost, then we have to realize that we need to flow with God always. He after all, being the Creator and original and ultimate lawgiver of the universe, would be our sure...
IN a sense, we have to be thankful for this quarantine time since it actually can act like a reagent that would expose to us the stuff we are made of and of what and how we are making out of that stuff. Yes, it can...
WE need to examine how we understand the word of God. To be sure, God’s word is not just any word. Neither is God’s word just a brilliant idea, a practical doctrine, and effective ideology. It’s not just a strategy, a culture or a lifestyle. God’s...
With the experience of almost three months of confinement, most of us would have adjusted to a ‘new normal’ way of life: constantly masking, distancing and sanitizing ourselves as our primary line of defense against COVID-19. Our experience of anxiety, uncertainty and fear has been...
Kitty, our four month old female cat has been getting lots of attention from male cats lately. That is why my mother decided to set an appointment with a veterinarian so that Kitty will be neutered. She opted for such because she cannot anymore afford...
The coming of COVID-19 posed a great challenge to us. One of the challenges is to take care of our immune system. Many say that one way of boosting our immune system is to observe proper nutrition. This we can do by taking rightly and...
WE have to be reminded that the quality of our prayer determines in the end the quality of our life. How our prayer is will somehow shape how our life will be. And that’s simply because our prayer is the basic way of connecting with...
It was related by Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa, a Capuchin priest, that a person who did not like St. Teresa of Calcutta's work for the poor once said to her, "I would not do it for all the gold in the world." To which the saint...