Christian faith is first of all a divine, supernatural gift that comes to us with God's grace. But since it is meant for us, then it is adapted to our human condition. In fact, it also has to be humanized, to be freely taken up...
Some drastic updating of our understanding of what a missionary is, is now in order. We should not get stuck with the common, textbook idea that a missionary is usually a priest or nun who goes to a far-away place, and literally starts a settlement...
This we have to deliberately do. We cannot and should not expect that this hunger and thirst would just come about automatically, as if it is going to be physically felt and biologically dictated. This is a spiritual hunger and thirst that needs the impulses...
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...
