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...
We have the tendency to apply to ourselves the adage, ‘Birds of a feather flock together,’ which is unfair to both the birds and us, for the simple reason that we are not birds, and birds are not men. We are expected, nay, obliged, to...
To be sure, that's the law that should govern us who, being created in the image and likeness of God who is love, are meant to love and for love. In short, love is the be-all and end-all of our life and our whole being....
NOW that we are in the season of Lent, it’s good to consider some facts of life that we tend to take lightly, if not to ignore altogether. We need to confront the dark reality of our sinfulness as well as the reassuring reality of...
IT'S always a necessity for us to be able to see the bigger, if not the whole picture, and to avoid getting stuck with the small picture. More than that, we need to see the vital link between the small picture and the big one,...
WE need to see the unity between heaven and earth, and try our best, with God’s grace, to conform to such reality. Obviously, this unity between heaven and earth will always be a tentative one while we are still here on earth, but we need...
IT'S obvious that we have to do all we can to combat bad poverty. That's the poverty that dehumanizes us, that undermines our dignity as persons and as children of God. Anything that stands in the way of what we ought to be, both in...
ONE very crucial virtue in our life is sincerity. That, of course, has something to do with truth. Our genuine development and perfection as persons and as society would depend to a large extent on how we are sincere, or on how we understand and...
