FOR those giving spiritual accompaniment to others—most especially priests and even lay persons who are dedicating themselves to this delicate and important task—it may be good to take note of the following observations. It’s good to remember that this business of spiritual accompaniment is an occasion...
THAT’S what we can learn from the Gospel of St. Luke where Christ talks about death that will come to us like a thief in the night and how we can prepare for it by giving ourselves to others what God has given us. “Unto...
IT’S, of course, to meet God at our judgment day. This should be the abiding and life-long expectation we ought to have, for which we should always be vigilant and, more than anything else, properly prepared. We are reminded of this duty in what Christ told...
THAT’S’ what Christ actually wants us to be. We have to be truly poor in order to be truly rich in what really matters in our life. This is the lesson that we can get from the gospel parable about the rich fool. (cfr. Lk...
THAT’S the lesson Christ wants us to draw from that gospel parable about a woman who persisted in asking a judge to render her justice—even to the point of disturbing him—and finally got what she wanted. (cfr. Lk 18,1-8)) Like that woman we should also persist...
GIVEN who we really are and how we are in this life, we should make sure that everything that we do knowingly and intentionally should have God as its principal and ultimate end. That’s because God is our creator who created us in his very image...
I’M referring to the growing cases of same-sex attraction among students in our country. Though specific research is limited regarding the prevalence of same-sex attraction among students in our high schools, colleges and universities, we cannot deny that we are hearing more and more about...
WE know that a number of times Christ complained about the hypocrisy of the leading Jews of his time. He issued a number of “Woe to you’s” to those who “tithe mint and rue and every herb, and pass over judgment and the charity of...
IT’S well known that our first or immediate reactions to things we see, hear or experience are not quite right. They can even be totally wrong. We should not be surprised by this fact of life. It’s part of our natural human limitations, not to...
A NUMBER of times, Christ complained about the lack of faith of the people of his time. “This generation is a wicked generation: it asks for a sign, and a sign shall not be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet,” he once...