I WAS struck by a quotation used in Pope Francis’ “Gaudete et exsultate,” which is about the call to holiness in today’s world. He quoted a French essayist, Leon Bloy, who said, “the only great tragedy in life is not to become a saint.” (GE...
THIS refers to the devil, actually the smartest of all conspirators. A pure spirit, he has the great advantage of knowing things instantaneously and can have the power to organize and orchestrate things according to his evil purposes. He can do this so well that...
THE Synod of Bishops on Young People, Faith and Vocational Discernment just ended last October 27 and a final report has already been submitted to Pope Francis. We will just wait for what the Holy Father will make out of it. For sure, many interesting...
WE cannot doubt the many benefits we can derive from the use of the social media. It facilitates communication which is a necessity for all of us. We just have to know how to use it properly, for definitely the possibility also is high to...
THAT’S right. We can’t have everything we want in this life. And the simple reason is that our human condition itself has limitations even if deep inside us there is a yearning for something without limits. Let’s remember that we are a blend of body and...
WE should have this go-getter attitude in life. Even if we are faced with tremendous difficulties and challenges, even if we suffer failures and defeats, the thing to do is simply to move on and to go on. We should never surrender. We should never...
WE have to be more familiar with what we may term as the right pro-choice. That’s because what is now more popular, especially in the more developed countries, the so-called liberated ones, is the wrong one, the bad one. And we have to do something...
WE should not miss the chance to make our work prayer also. As long as it is honest work, regardless of whether it is manual, technical or intellectual, it can and should be part of God’s providence over us, of God’s continuing work over us. As...
MANY of the so-called millennials think so. They say that prayer simply serves as a tool to calm them down, relieve them of some worries, but it hardly has any real effect. By that claim, they seem to mean that even with what they consider...
WITH the celebration of the Solemnity of All Saints and the Commemoration of All Souls, we should be reminded of that beautiful, if very overwhelming, reality that all of us, from Adam to the last man still to be born, are meant to live in...
