CONSIDER the great and overwhelming joy Mary Magdalene and the other Mary felt when they discovered the resurrection of Christ. (cfr. Mt 28,8) They ran, very eager to spill the Good News to Christ’s disciples. Let’s hope that we too can have the same joy and...
HAPPY EASTER to everyone! Once again, we celebrate the final victory of Christ over our sins and their consequences. That’s what his resurrection, achieved through the instrumentality of the cross, means. We should all be moved to correspond to this BEST NEWS we could ever...
THIS is the highest point, the climax, of the redemptive work of Christ. With the Easter Triduum which starts in the evening of Holy Thursday with the celebration of the Mass of the Last Supper, we are made to understand that Christ, whose idea of...
THAT Christ knew that he would be betrayed by one of those close to him and thus suffer the consequences—his passion and death on the cross (cfr. Mt 26,14-25)—should remind us that we too would be betrayed, if not by others then by our own...
THIS is a “caveat emptor” that will always be relevant in our whole life. We may already consider ourselves as good Christians because we pray, attend Mass, do some good works, etc. But if our relation with Christ is really not strong, deep and abiding,...
IF we really want to capture the heart of Christ, if we really want to have the same love he has for all of us, then we should train ourselves to get involved in the lives of others. That’s what Christ is showing us and...
WITH the celebration of Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord’s Passion, we begin the Holy Week of our liturgical calendar, the most important week of the year that commemorates the culmination of the redemptive mission of our Lord Jesus Christ. It’s on this...
WE should process well this truth about ourselves so that we would always feel urged to continually feel this need for repentance and conversion. We know that despite our best efforts, we know that sooner or later we fall into sin. St. John in his First...
THAT’S the challenge we have to learn to tackle. That’s because prayer is the ideal condition we can have in this life. It establishes and keeps our proper relation with God. It makes us discern God’s abiding interventions in our life, prompting us on how...
INDEED, that is what would surely happen. Without God, despite whatever brilliance and human and worldly success we may manage to achieve through our powers alone, everything would just be an exercise of self-indulgence and vanity that would lead us nowhere other than the ultimate...