KNOWING that our life would always involve some struggle—in fact, it is often characterized as a warfare—we should always be on the alert, shoring up our defenses, sharpening our fighting skills, etc. We should know where our ultimate strength can come from and when we would...
PUNDITRY, of course, has its legitimate value and purpose in our life. It facilitates our knowledge of things in areas that are quite unfamiliar to us, since they are not our fields of specialization and yet they also are relevant to us. It clarifies things...
HOW important it is that we have a clear idea of the relationship between God and freedom, and between freedom and love. Given our very confusing times, when the distinction between truth and falsehood, good and evil, moral and immoral is blurred, it’s very urgent...
PENTECOST Sunday reminds us that God is always with us. It reminds us of a very wonderful truth of our faith as expressed by Christ himself: “I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate to be with you always, the Spirit...
WE have to be prepared for the ending of this stay-home dispensation. Hopefully it will be soon. We just cannot be held in lockdown mode indefinitely. One day, we just have to go out and try to do the usual business as normally as possible. Definitely,...
WE have to be ready for this. Evil, though it surely will not have the last word, will always have a degree of victory over us in our life here on earth. Let’s not be too idealistic that we can wipe it out completely in...
I’M referring to what could be considered as the ultimate proof that we are true Christians. I imagine that it would be the willingness to offer our life for others, for our faith, for the Church, the way Christ himself offered his life as the...
NOW that we are still in various forms of quarantine, it might be timely to remind ourselves of our need to keep heaven in mind. The Solemnity of the Ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ gives us good occasion for this consideration, actually a crucial...
IN our daily dealings with others, especially when we encounter contradicting views and positions, we should remember that while we do not ignore our differences, we actually have more things in common than differences. We should try our best not to get stuck with our differences,...
HOW can we be objective and fair in our discussions and exchanges when there will always be many angles, layers and spins in which any issue, whether it is an opinable matter or even a dogmatic one, a highly contentious political issue or a long-settled...