WITH Pope Francis pushing what he calls as the Church of mercy and compassion, we all have to do some adjustments in our attitudes and thinking, because with that call some kind of paradigm shift is actually being presented to us for the life of...
THE Church, through our bishops, has declared 2015 the Year of the Poor. It’s part of grand 9-year plan of new evangelization in preparation of the celebration of the fifth centenary of the Christianization of the Philippines in 2021. We should do all we can to...
THIS is the law that should rule our life. Christ himself said so. “He that shall lose his life for me, shall find it.” “Whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel, shall save it.” “He that hates his life in this...
THE month of November begins with the celebration of the Solemnity of All Saints and the Commemoration of All Souls. These are celebrations that remind us of the wonderful reality that our life is not just limited by our earthly space-and-time existence, but has other dimensions that we often...
OBVIOUSLY, we have to make a distinction between the state of holiness and the process of making oneself holy. I refer more to the latter, which actually is what is needed for us to be truly holy. Sanctity and sanctification should go hand in hand, and...
ALSO vice versa, when those who claim they see become blind. There’s an intriguing passage in the gospel about the cure of the man born blind. I believe it’s worth going through it again, and slowly, to highlight a particular point we need to understand...
THEY don’t seem to get along well. But that’s the challenge. How to make our adolescent boys and girls develop and practice piety is actually a grave concern for everyone, especially for the parents, teachers, and others like priests, counsellors, etc. We need to give due...
WE need to know the real essence of love, its true and ultimate dimensions, its theoretical and practical implications, its source, power and goal, its pattern, ways and manifestations. Though it is an endless exercise, it would always be worthwhile since from that effort is derived...
WE have just celebrated the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the perfect and universal mother given to all of us by no less than Christ himself. The celebration somehow reminds us that, like her, we are meant for heaven, our ultimate...
WE should have no doubt about this. For us to “get real” and to be realistic, we need to be guided by faith, rather than be led simply by our reason and much less by our feelings and instincts alone. These latter things give us...
