We have just celebrated the great solemnity of the Most Blessed Trinity. It is supposed to be, and in fact it is the most important mystery of our faith, the fount of all the other truths and mysteries of our faith, since it shows us...
WE all need to have spiritual direction. We have to allow the intricate workings of our spiritual life, which has to contend with all sorts of things in life, to be guided by somebody else, because though we are the ones who make the final...
We can approach this quest from two points of view. One is that we need to enrich our culture by deepening the knowledge of our own culture and that of the others. We need to monitor developments of the different cultures around. The other is to...
IN our spiritual and Christian life, we are expected to always ask God for all our needs, from the smallest to the biggest, from the most material to the most spiritual. We can never say that there are moments and situations when we don’t have...
MANY of us may still remember the catechisms that we studied and tried to memorize in our grade school and high school. The usual memory we have of those days is that of simply rattling off what was memorized if only to pass the quizzes...
WE need to remind ourselves that holiness can be occasioned, (not caused, of course) by sin. And so we have to devise a spirituality that recognizes this very important fact and acts on it accordingly. Just a reminder: it’s God’s grace and our correspondence to it...
WE should always expect the possibility for us to fall into some state of helplessness, not only of the transitory type but also of the permanent one. That’s just being realistic. And upon that possibility, let’s make the necessary preparation, building up the appropriate attitude,...
I WAS reminded of these words from an old song, which I am now using as the title of this piece, when the sneaky maneuver to end the RH bill debate in Congress some years back triggered an explosion of angry reactions both from the...
THIS is the challenge of Easter. Christ’s resurrection has reopened the gates of heaven and has given us a way to enter it. With his rising from the dead, we are given a new life. We are now a new creation, a new man because...
AS we are now inching our way toward the celebration of the International Eucharistic Congress 2016, let me just comment a little on the prayer prepared for such big event. It’s a beautiful prayer that should be on the lips of all of us, meaning it...
