IF we have to approximate our ideal of being Christ-like as much as possible, I imagine that these are some of the qualities that we have to develop. We need to be broad-minded and big-hearted. That is to say, we have to be quite open and...
WHILE it’s true that we have to take care of the little things in our life, we should not forget that we are not meant to get detained there. We should always relate the little ordinary things in our life to the big and ultimate...
WE have to understand that our mundane and temporal affairs are no obstacle in our relationship with God and with others. They should not be. In fact, for most people, these matters and affairs are the very occasion, material and motive for developing the love...
THIS should be a no-brainer. It should come much like an instinct. When one is vested with power, with better endowments than those of others, he must remember that such privilege will always attract temptations of abusing it. It is like a magnet for temptations....
WE are supposed to love everyone. We are supposed to have a universal heart, meant to be concerned for all people, irrespective of how they are in themselves and how they are toward us. Yes, we have to love everyone, in spite of our unavoidable...
WE should consider ourselves very lucky and quite blessed that we still have a vibrant spirit of popular piety as evidenced by the tremendous outpouring of devotees during the feasts of the Black Nazarene and of the Child Jesus (Sto. Niño). I don’t know if...
JUST like in the financial world where the value of the different monetary units in the world is determined in terms of gold, the quality and value of our spiritual life, our relation with God and with others and everything related to it is determined...
IT’S good to be reminded by what St. Paul said about the proper relationship between the strong and the weak among us. It’s in his Letter to the Romans where he said: “We who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak...
THIS, to me, is the most intriguing parable Christ is teaching us. (cfr. Lk 16,1-13) A rich man decided to fire his steward for mismanaging his business. And the steward, knowing what was going to happen, had to do some cheating so he would have...
WHAT I mean is that the open discussion of sex in public should not anymore be considered as taboo. Given the terrible state in which this basic human faculty is massively abused and misused today, we should proclaim the true gospel about sex relentlessly, “in...
