ESPECIALLY in our public discourses regarding ticklish issues, we need to see to it that we are most aware of a persona-non-grata that is called pride. We should keep it at bay, exerting appropriate effort to resist its many strong impulses and urges. Pride always spoils...
THIS is one of the most intriguing statements of St. Paul. In his second letter to Timothy, he described how some people would be in the last days. (3,2-7) He warned us to be prepared to deal with them. “People will be lovers of themselves,” he...
THIS is a very challenging task for anyone who has the duty to give some spiritual guidance to young people. But once accomplished, you can be sure that a great good would have been served, and that the sense of fulfilment for both the guide...
MAKE no mistake about it. Only in Christ can we find true freedom. Everything else can only give us, at best, apparent freedom that in the end can only put us into some bondage, if not destroy us. The reason for this is that Christ, as...
WE have to learn this art of letting go and moving on. Especially these days, when we are bombarded with so many competing things and the possibility of getting cornered by some problem or difficulty is very high, we need to know how to let...
IF love is genuine, it will always express itself strongly—with passion, with drive. It will always be hot and it just cannot keep to itself, passive and inactive. It has to overflow and touch the lives of others and the state of things. In fact,...
THOUGH there is a distinction between our body and our spiritual soul, we always have to remember that these two are both constitutive of our being. They are meant to be together. We are neither body alone nor soul alone. We are at once body...
IN our spiritual life, we need to always go forward, to advance, to cover more area. In other words, we have to always go on the offensive. We cannot be all the time defensive, though that is also necessary, but as a complement to our...
IT is indeed necessary that we be brutally sincere when we go to confession and to spiritual direction. We have to learn to lay all our cards on the table so that the human instruments used by God to help us in our spiritual life,...
WE have to be aware of their presence, purpose, function and activities in our life. They, for sure, are real beings, as real as you and me. They are not fictional characters, or some merely literary devices meant to make a point or teach us...
