I always get very moved every time I attend a priestly ordination. I can't help but pray hard for the new priest. With eyes of faith, I see in that event a radical, miraculous transformation of a man, usually young, from an ordinary person---yes, already...
If there's anything that should elicit the strongest passion in us, it should be the desire to be like God. This simply corresponds to God's greatest commandment as articulated by Christ himself: “You shall love the Lord your God with your whole heart, and with...
I am referring to the cross. More specifically, the cross of Christ. It is the tree that symbolizes all our sinfulness and all its awful effects and consequences, as well as our own salvation, that is, if we look at it the way Christ did. The...
Of all the creatures on earth, we are the greatest with the highest dignity. And that's simply because we have been created “in the image and likeness” of God. To our nature that is rational, i.e., with intelligence and will, and not merely biological, is...
It all started with our first parents. After being created in the divine image and likeness and endowed with the best of things, they eventually disobeyed God's law and strayed away. It's a sad fact of life that continues to take place even up to now....
(I am again attaching an article of Robert Z. Cortez, a friend of mine. It has to do with the same-sex marriage decision of the US Supreme Court.) BY now no one has not seen those rainbow-colored #LoveWins memes. Or those rainbow-colored hearts that Twitter tacked...
We need to see to it that we are forming convictions, those strong, deep core beliefs that would serve as a clear and sure guide in our lives. We have to be wary of a certain culture, quite rampant these days, which simply fosters shallow...
We all know that life has more to offer than what we can manage. There are surprises both of the pleasant and welcome ones as well as the terribly unwelcome ones. There are heavy pressures and insoluble predicaments. We have to be ready for these...
As long as all these are properly grounded and oriented, there's nothing at all to worry. Smiling, laughing and having fun would do us no harm, and in fact would be and would do good to all. The world would be a much better place...
That's right, and I am now again back to school. It's just one among many other pastoral assignments given to me this year. But I welcome this opportunity to be involved in a school, since the suspenseful work of forming people is made easier by...
