WE cannot deny that the world today is evolving very fast and is creating a more complicated one, generating multi-dimensional and multi-level aspects that are increasingly challenging our capacities. I, for one, as a priest have to cope now with so many multiplying things that require...
WHILE we have to take care of the little and ordinary things of the day, we should neither forget that we also have to be concerned about the big things that can involve us. We have to be wary of unwittingly being held hostage by...
FOR anything, that is. Since we are intelligent and free beings, we can turn everything in our life into an occasion for good or evil. But if we have the proper understanding of the purpose of our life here on earth, we should realize that...
THAT’S when we have full trust in God’s providence, his word and promises, the effectiveness of his redemptive mission, his abundant mercy, his wisdom and omnipotence and all the other, endless reasons that we can never account for. It’s really a matter of a living faith,...
THIS can happen to anyone of us. Self-righteousness is a common disease, since all of us have our share of pride and arrogance. We may not acknowledge it—a more insidious situation to be in, since pride has a tremendous blinding power—but we can fall into it...
“I SAY to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them.” (Mt 18,19-20) We...
IF this plan gets approved and implemented, I hope that we use it to be more productive and fruitful and not just to spend more time doing hardly anything. The shortening of the work week is intended for us to give time to other important...
WE have to understand the proper relationship between war and peace. Christ himself who is the prince of peace recommended a kind of warfare that we have to undertake all the time. This can be gleaned from the following words of his: “Do not think...
MIGHT be good to be familiar with these terms or phenomena. They can be useful and relevant to us, especially because in our life we would always be in need of renewal, of having to move on in spite of setbacks and other forms of...
YES, we have to make full use of our faculties, especially the will, but we need to see to it that our will is properly grounded, inspired and oriented. Yes, we have to be willful as much as we can, but seeing to it that...
