WE have to be ready for this possibility. Failures can come to us anytime and in all forms in spite of our good intentions and best efforts. Some of them can already be suspected. But there are others that can come as a complete surprise. In...
AS we culminate the Christian Unity Octave on January 25 with the celebration of the feast of the conversion of St. Paul, let us give some thought to our duty to work out this intention at the very heart of the Church, the unity of...
WE need to develop a good sense of solidarity. It is that awareness of our duty that we are meant to be with everybody else, and to be concerned for them and to care for them. We should not think only of our own selves,...
Life is a very precious gift from heaven. This gift should never be taken for granted. But after the end of World War II in 1945, there was a dramatic increase in world population while the areas on producing food was decreasing. To solve this...
TO: ALL PARISH PRIESTS, MEN AND WOMEN RELIGIOUS WITH PUBLIC CHAPELS Peace! Reverend Fathers and Sisters, due to the security measures that we have to make because of the current threat of violence, upon the advice from the government’s Security and PNP Personnel, please make the following...
In the aftermath of the plebiscite on January 21 for the proposed expanded Muslim autonomous territory and regional government which was reported to have given substantial approval to the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL), many government officials, politicians, military officials, journalists and columnists were also reported...
SCANDAL, of course, is a sin. We need to be reminded of this since nowadays it seems that scandals are so common that many people think it is just okay to cause it or to be scandalized. When one scandalizes somebody else, he leads or tempts...
Friends come and go but those who stick around are worth keeping. How many friends do you have who are like treasures for you? Said friends are the ones that need to be polished so that their glitters will last a lifetime. What should we...
WE need to see to it that our observance of our human laws is not guided only by our human understanding of these laws nor by the many human values that we can aspire and pursue. Our observance of our laws should not be guided...
THIS, of course, will be a continuing, endless task. We first of all should be most thankful that in spite of the many secularizing factors affecting the world today in general, we in our country still manage to have a very moving popular piety or...
