WE need to be more familiar with this devotion. It’s actually a very helpful one in our daily affairs, since our guardian angels are our direct link to God. They see and attend to God face to face, and serve as his agents and messengers...
SOMEONE told me recently that we are now done with the millennials. We now have to deal with the emerging new Generation Z, also known as iGeneration, Post-Millennials, the young people born in the mid 1990s and mid 2000s. These are people who are practically born...
A PASSAGE in the Letter of St. Paul to the Philippians should enlighten us about how our attitude should be toward death. It’s when he said: “All I want is to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and to share his sufferings by...
WE need to be amply warned by this danger. Those powerful new technologies that we have now, that can give us a lot of benefits, can also become a big threat to our spiritual, moral and even physical life. They can indeed become a treacherous...
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...
