IF we truly want to be genuine friends and brothers and sisters to everybody else, we need to practice empathy first. Hopefully that gesture will elicit a corresponding similar response of the others toward us, and so we can enter into the world of intersubjectivity...
IF we have to be practical in this life, exerting effort to attend and resolve all our issues and challenges, not to mention, to be truly being faithful and consistent to the living Christ who continues to be with us in the Holy Spirit, then...
YES, we have to be watchful with our tongue. It many times can be like a loose cannon, spewing all of kinds of inconsiderate and reckless comments. We have to have a good grip on it because it tends to be simply guided by emotions...
IN any social environment where we always find ourselves, be it the family, school, office, parish, or society in general, etc., we have to remember three basic and indispensable principles that should guide our actuations there. These are the principles of the common good, solidarity...
FAR from straitjacketing or stereotyping us, entering into a commitment would simply show that we are so driven with love and a deep sense of freedom that we are willing to take on whatever consequences our commitment would make on us. We are human with a...
The word “teleological” may sound Greek to us at the moment. And it should not surprise us, for true enough it is of Greek origin. But the word actually refers to almost everything that we usually do. Whenever we do something, we always have a...
IT’S indeed laudable that in whatever we do, we try to give it our best shot. We should just remember that our best will never be enough insofar as pleasing God and everybody else is concerned. Our best can always be made better. This should not...
IF we truly want to follow Christ, we should always feel the urge and the passion for reaching out to those who are lost, separated from him and his Church, those who are confused and in error, those in the peripheries in whatever sense “peripheries”...
WE know that the Church is both hierarchical and charismatic in nature. As charismatic, the Church continues to receive from God through Christ in the Holy Spirit special gifts and charisms to keep the Church strong, vibrant and faithful. These gifts and charisms are first...
THIS should be no surprise to us, no breaking news. We just have to acknowledge this very obvious fact and avoid falling into two extremes. One is that of perfectionism, when we think everything will just be rigidly perfect, and anything that stains and distorts...
