THAT gospel story about Lazarus and the rich man (cfr Lk 16,19-31) reminds us that we have to be careful not to be so swallowed up by worldly and temporal affairs that we forget that our ultimate destination is heaven in eternity. Our worldly and temporal...
WE need to be vigilant always, in good times and in bad times, and most especially in ordinary times which we still would not know whether it is good or bad. We should never let our guard down. This is simply because we have enemies to...
ALL sorts of trials can come to us anytime. They are unavoidable. In fact, it would be good if we can already expect them, so we can prepare ourselves for them. We have to learn how to deal with them effectively. There definitely are human and...
CHRIST told us very clearly that we should refrain from judging others. “Do not judge, or you will be judged,” he said. “For with the same judgment you pronounce, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you...
I WAS happy to read an article recently about why we are increasingly unaware of our ignorance and why it is a big problem. It caught my attention because that is also my observation. In fact, in many of my columns, I have expressed that...
ANOTHER form of fake holiness mentioned in Pope Francis’ “Gaudete et exsultate” is what is known as Pelagianism that also includes its mitigated but still erroneous idea of holiness that is labeled as semi-Pelagianism. It is a heretical doctrine attributed to a British theologian, Pelagius,...
WE all can be and should be saints even if we are not canonized, that is, to be officially declared as saint by the Church after a long process of verifying the holy life of a person that definitely should show how heroic he lived...
THAT’S, of course, an understatement. As someone said before, change is the only permanent thing in this life. That might be a bit stretched, but, yes, just the same it contains a lot of truth. I say this because the other day I had this amusing...
THAT’S one of the things Pope Francis mentioned in his latest Apostolic Exhortation, Gaudete et exsultate. We have to really know what true sanctity is, how it is attained, where to find it, how to sustain it and make it grow, etc. We cannot deny that...
WE cannot deny that whether we like it or not, we need to have patience, lots of it, in our life. Otherwise, we cannot survive beyond our young age. There are just so many difficulties, problems, issues and all sorts of predicaments that would demand...
