Many do not see how true Jesus was when He said: “According to the measure you extend to others, the same shall come back to you, overflowing” (Lk. 6:38). And why He said: “It is more blessed to give than to receive” (Acts 20:35). The best...
In 1965, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) established the Mission Society of the Philippines (MSP) in gratitude to GOD for the gift of faith we, Filipinos, received from the early Catholic foreign missionaries. Eighty one (81) MSP priests are now present in...
Of all the creatures on earth, we are the greatest with the highest dignity. And that's simply because we have been created “in the image and likeness” of God. To our nature that is rational, i.e., with intelligence and will, and not merely biological, is...
Last week’s Shalom I wrote that Duyog Ramadhan is a forgotten approach to peace. One reason could be the difficulty of fasting. Actually, the Muslim way of fasting is much easier than the Catholic practice. The former does the fasting during the day but at early...
It all started with our first parents. After being created in the divine image and likeness and endowed with the best of things, they eventually disobeyed God's law and strayed away. It's a sad fact of life that continues to take place even up to now....
Mapasalamaton kaayo ako sa mga paningkamot sa daghan natong mga magtotoo ug mga lideres sa atong Diyosesis, gikan sa hut-ong sa atong mga kaparian, relihiyoso ug mga layko, nga misalmot sa ika-6 nga Asembliya Pastoral (DPA 6), sa iyang pagpangandam, pagsaulog, ug pagtapos sa mga...
The term Activism or activist has acquired some kind of pejorative meaning just because activists nowadays are moving in haphazard directions and we don’t know whether they could be right or wrong. Hence, the first thing we need is to evaluate the movements. Are...
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“GANGRENE” --- In layman’s terms, “gangrene” means something that is rotten as in one’s wound that’s so infected, swollen and perhaps foul smelling that it needs to be cut off or excised to prevent its spread. So when Pope Francis calls corruption as “gangrene“ of...
(I am again attaching an article of Robert Z. Cortez, a friend of mine. It has to do with the same-sex marriage decision of the US Supreme Court.) BY now no one has not seen those rainbow-colored #LoveWins memes. Or those rainbow-colored hearts that Twitter tacked...