The Christmas scenes in Bethlehem long time ago present us the anxiety and hardship befalling Joseph and Mary as they were looking for a place to settle for the night after an arduous travel. Adding to the fact that Mary was in full-term. Their knocks...
IT was nice to learn about Blessed Bartolo Longo (1841-1926) who, as the Wikepedia puts it, “was an Italian lawyer who has been beatified by the Roman Catholic Church. He was a former satanist who returned to the Christian faith and became a third order...
“Last Christmas I gave you my heart but the very next day you gave it away. This year to save me from tears, I’ll give it to someone special.” So goes a very familiar song of Wham which was released in 1984. It was also in...
Christmas is already in the air. A few days from now we will be celebrating the birth of Jesus. May we remember to give thanks to God for letting Jesus be born through the Blessed Virgin Mary. Thanks also to Mama Mary and St. Joseph...
I forgot the source or the author of this quote. But two incidents related to this I cannot forget. One: in 1991 during the deliberations at the Second Plenary Council of the Philippines, commonly known as PCP 2 in Church documents, Bishop Legazi kept repeating it....
There’s that relieving sensation when you have been desperately searching for a parking space for nearly thirty minutes and suddenly a vehicle a few meters from you exits to give you that longed for providential space. “Whew! At last!” I said to myself and whispered a...
LET’S hope that we can avoid some reproaching words of Christ because of our lack of faith and of our inability to relate everything to God. Remember that in the gospel of St. Luke, Christ made this complaint: “As it was in the days of Noah,...
WE need to realize that it is a duty of ours, as Christians, to always give good example to others. Not that we have to flaunt whatever good thing we have or do, for Christ clearly said also that we should not show off our...
BOTH of them may share a lot of similarities. They can share some common ground. But they too have a lot of differences, and sharp and radical differences at that! We have to be keenly aware of these similarities and differences as much as possible so...
(Manifesto of the Bishops-Ulama Conference) We, the delegates of the Bishops-Ulama Conference 45th General Assembly, duly convened on 27th of November 2018 at Ateneo de Davao University, Davao City, inspired by messages presented by our speakers, express our collective sentiments. Whereas, recognizing that we all belong to...