AM happy to know that the committee on the ongoing formation of the Archdiocese of Cebu is organizing a conference on priestly conduct as part of the celebration of 2018 as the Year of the Clergy and Consecrated Persons. I believe it is part of...
NOW that Pope Francis has made it a Church doctrine that the death penalty is inadmissible, we have to review the basis for the true value of human life. We cannot exaggerate the value of human life, since it is a life meant to have an...
WE have to make sure that whenever we encounter pain and difficulty in life, failure and loss, misery and misfortune, things that can usually happen in anyone’s life, we avoid falling into self-pity which will only make things worse. These predicaments in life are actually golden...
WE need to be able to distinguish between the two. They notoriously look alike, but one is genuine while the other is fake. One can truly help in our relation with God and others, while the other tends to harden our self-centeredness. One is usually...
CHRIST himself said it very clearly that it is in him where we can find our true rest. These are his words: “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” (Mt 11,28) To be sure, the rest that...
I AM sure that a good number of people have expressed the view that they find their prayer life quite boring and dry. They say that often they run out of things to consider in their prayer and that they feel no compelling drive to...
A NEWS item caught my attention recently. It said that the phenomenon of fake news nowadays is a crisis gripping countries with the democratic form of government. Frankly, I was amused more than anything else when I read that item. What immediately came to my mind...
WE should beg God that we be given a steadfast spirit, not a wavering, flickering one. We have to be realistic with our weakened, wounded human condition that often finds us good only in the beginning of an endeavor but cannot hold on to that...
MANY people have expressed the grave concern about today’s world. For one, they say that it is already a given nowadays that a great majority of the young people, both boys and girls, are now exposed to pornography and that many are downed with sexual...
THIS is a question many people ask after being told that we are all meant to live a supernatural life. And we just have to start explaining. First, that we are meant to live a supernatural life is based on the fact that we have been...
