IF we truly love God and everybody else, with a love that is nothing less than a participation of the love God has for us and as commanded by Christ to us, then we will never say enough in our self-giving. Even if such attitude would...
NO doubt we have to learn how to contend with the different and even competing and conflicting elements in our life. We have our personal life as well as our family, professional, social, economic, and political life. There are things that need our immediate attention,...
SINCE we have been created in the image and likeness of God, we have to remember that as much as possible, we should identify ourselves with Christ who as the Son of God is the perfect image God has of his own self and thus...
I BELIEVE this is a devotion that is most relevant these days, especially to the youth and others who are practically under the spell of evil spirits. With their most subtle tricks and irresistible temptations, these evil spirits wreak havoc mainly on the soul of...
WE all need to be reminded that all our suffering has a positive and favorable aspect. It’s not all entirely bad and negative, though in itself it will always be bad. But if viewed and lived through our Christian faith, there is something in it...
I SUPPOSE everyone wants to have friends. It’s kind of difficult to imagine a person who does not like to have friends, since we in general are wired to be always in relation with others, and that relation, which can take many forms, is basically...
THIS is something we have to be most discerning and careful about. We have to realize that there is such thing as an apparent good, which actually is not good but can look and smell like it is. We should do our best that we...
TO go directly to the point, we can only find our true strength in Christ. There’s no other—no, not in some drugs, therapy, physical stamina, genes, etc. These things only give, at best, some temporary relief. They don’t last for long, and they don’t work...
THIS is the challenge we all have to face if we truly want to follow Christ. We have to try our best to know how to blend the inclusivity of charity and the exclusivity of truth. We know that charity has a universal coverage, such that...
WE have to learn to live with this basic fact of life. No matter how much we try to make our life and the world in general as perfect as possible, we can never achieve it. We just have to contend with the reality that...