IN the gospel, we can hear Christ expressing his burning desire to pursue his mission here on earth. “I am come to cast fire on the earth; and what will I, but that it be kindled?” he said. (Lk 12,49) If we want to be true...
WITH the celebration the Solemnity of the Assumption of Our Lady, we are reminded that though we feel so unworthy of it, we are actually meant to be in heaven in our definitive state of life. And that, not only spiritually, but also corporally. We...
WITH all the rapid developments we are having these days, giving rise to a number of contentious issues, we need to find a way of how to pursue the truth that should always go with charity. It’s a tall order that we should just try...
IT’S easy to understand why Mary is honored as Mother of the Church the day after Pentecost Sunday. And that’s because Pentecost, or the coming of the Holy Spirit, being the birth of the Church, it’s logical that Mary, being the Mother of Christ and...
DEFINITELY, it is not in being adorned with sorts of medals and public recognition, showered with all kinds of honors and privileges. It’s rather in being simple and humble, in having a heart completely emptied of its ego and filled with love and compassion for...
THIS is the ideal condition for us to be in. Given the way we are, as willed by God himself, our Creator and Father, we need to be always with him all the time even as we go through our earthly and temporal affairs. To...
ONCE again, we are reminded of this need for vigilance in that gospel episode where Christ reminded his disciples to be like the servants who “await their master’s return from a wedding, ready to open immediately when he comes and knocks.” (Mt 12,36) He prefaced this...
CHRIST said it clearly. “If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For he that will save his life, shall lose it; and he that shall lose his life for my sake, shall find...
IN SPITE of our desire to continue doing things, we cannot deny that there are times when for one reason or another we would just lose steam and somehow feeling trapped in a condition of inactivity. It’s a classic example of what Christ once said:...
ONE liturgical prayer I met sometime ago went this way: “Grant, we pray, almighty God, that we, who have been renewed by paschal remedies, transcending the likeness of our earthly parentage, may be transformed in the image of our heavenly maker.” I found that prayer very...