November 21 is the commemoration of the Presentation of Mary. As a small child, her parents, Joachim & Anne presented her to the Lord in the temple. We also commemorate the church dedicated to her presentation near the temple in Jerusalem. St. Augustine says that Mary,...
WE cannot doubt the many benefits we can derive from the use of the social media. It facilitates communication which is a necessity for all of us. We just have to know how to use it properly, for definitely the possibility also is high to...
As promised in last week's Shalom Indulgences will be explained in the present article. Last week we mentioned Indulgences in our reflection on praying for the souls in purgatory. We said that we can speed up the cleansing or purging process of the souls by saying...
THAT’S right. We can’t have everything we want in this life. And the simple reason is that our human condition itself has limitations even if deep inside us there is a yearning for something without limits. Let’s remember that we are a blend of body and...
WE should have this go-getter attitude in life. Even if we are faced with tremendous difficulties and challenges, even if we suffer failures and defeats, the thing to do is simply to move on and to go on. We should never surrender. We should never...
WE have to be more familiar with what we may term as the right pro-choice. That’s because what is now more popular, especially in the more developed countries, the so-called liberated ones, is the wrong one, the bad one. And we have to do something...
WE should not miss the chance to make our work prayer also. As long as it is honest work, regardless of whether it is manual, technical or intellectual, it can and should be part of God’s providence over us, of God’s continuing work over us. As...
When Christians ponder on the reality of death, it is often associate with Gospel narratives about our Lord’s Passion and Death on the Cross. This is only natural because Jesus also taught that if we want to be his disciples, we must take up our...
[caption id="attachment_22568" align="alignright" width="350"] Cardinal Orlando Quevedo (Photo by Maria Tan)[/caption]Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Orlando Cardinal Quevedo, Archbishop of Cotabato recently. After four years of waiting, that the then Abp. Quevedo was appointed as Cardinal by Pope Francis January 12, 2014 when he...
It is our bible-based Catholic tradition dating back to the 2nd century to pray for the souls who "had slept in the Lord" (expression of St. Paul : 2 Tim 1:16-18) and who are in a certain "state between earth and heaven" (called "purgatory" where...