The sense of solidarity
WE need to develop a good sense of solidarity. It is that awareness of our duty that we are meant to be with everybody else, and to be concerned for them and to care for them. We should not think only of our own selves,...
Category Archives: Perspective
Avoid scandalizing and being scandalized
SCANDAL, of course, is a sin. We need to be reminded of this since nowadays it seems that scandals are so common that many people think it is just okay to cause it or to be scandalized. When one scandalizes somebody else, he leads or tempts...
Charity perfects our human laws
WE need to see to it that our observance of our human laws is not guided only by our human understanding of these laws nor by the many human values that we can aspire and pursue. Our observance of our laws should not be guided...
Purifying our popular piety
THIS, of course, will be a continuing, endless task. We first of all should be most thankful that in spite of the many secularizing factors affecting the world today in general, we in our country still manage to have a very moving popular piety or...
Universal apostolate
LET us always keep in mind that mandate Christ gave to his apostles before he ascended into heaven. “Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them...
Let’s play with the Sto. Niño
THAT’S right! Let’s play with the Child Jesus. In fact, we can dance with and for him, just like what we do when we are with a little child. We can make faces and do many other cutesy things so that he and us will...
Self-giving vs. self-indulgence
WITH the way things are nowadays, we need to be keen in distinguishing between real self-giving and a fake one that masks what actually is self-indulgence. This is because we can now easily make use of many good things and yet our intentions are not...
Peter and John
I AM referring to the two apostles, St. Peter and St. John. The former was much older than the latter who, tradition says, was practically a lad only at the time of Christ. They both can represent the tension that usually arises between two different...
Our attitude towards life’s struggles
WE need to examine our attitude towards the unavoidable struggles we have in life. These struggles can be in all fronts—spiritual, moral, material, social, personal, etc. We need to ask ourselves whether we know why we have these struggles and whether they have some meaning...
Hey, sex is sacred!
THAT’S right. Sex is sacred. We should not play around with it. It is serious business, infused with a very serious mission. We should not trivialize it. Of course, it is easier said than done. The naked truth is that given our wounded condition and the...