IT cannot be denied that today’s quest for order is getting more difficult and challenging. There are just too many things around, producing so much clutter. The world is spinning increasingly faster. And things in general are getting more complicated and complex. We just cannot sit...
A story was told about a priest who found it hard to prepare his homily for his Mass inside a jail. After reading the Gospel, he decided to go near the inmates for an interactive preaching. But while walking down the stairs, he fell down....
At the beginning of Lent March 1 this year I decided to observe two forms of fasting: not to open my TV set and to lose weight gradually. It seems that even at age 82, with God's hep, I will make it to April 12,...
Mabungahong Pasko sa Pagkabanhaw! Ang atong kasaulogan sa Pasko sa Pagkabanhaw nagdala og laing higayon sa pagsugod pagusab sa kinabuhi uban ni Kristo kinsa namatay ug nabanhaw alang sa atong kaluwasan. Bisan unsa pa ang atong daang kaagi, human na kadto. Duna kitay bag-ong higayon sa...
St. John’s Gospel describes the passion and death of Jesus as the hour for glorifying the Son of God. The Cross is meant to lift him on high, to be with the Father (cf. Jn3:14, 8:28). “And when I am lifted up from the earth,...
Excerpts from the homily 88th GKK San Vicente Ferrer Fiesta, Mulig, Toril Virgen Delos Remedios, April 5, 2017 Ang Ebanghelyo gikan ni San Juan nagsaysay sa pakig-istorya ni Jesus sa iyang mga tinun-an kabahin sa kaluwasan nga mabatunan sa kamatuoran. Matud pa, ulipon sa sala ang tanang mga...
IT’S in guarding our mind and heart, seeing to it that they are welcoming and receptive to God, always giving him priority over all other things in our life. That’s the secret, since our relationship with God, insofar as our part is concerned, starts in...
WE have to be prepared for this eventuality that, sad to say, given our current frenzied conditions, many people claim to experience. There can be many explanations for this. One is that we are not actually taking care of our spirit of recollection all throughout the...
Palm Sunday ushers in the week we call holy. Easter Sunday defines its holiness. After Palm Sunday (April 9) from Monday to Saturday (April 15) morning we observe a lot of devotional activities that inspire holy thoughts, evoke holy words and motivate holy behavior. The defining...
Palm Sunday finds the crowd [us] waving palms and shouting triumphal Hosannas! to the Son of David at the start of the Mass, till we get to the Gospel, and join the crowd shouting, Crucify him! Once more we enter within ourselves as Jesus passes...