EVERY New Year reminds us, of course, of another opportunity to make a new beginning in our life. This is a law that governs us in this life. We have to begin and begin again, because no matter how far we have reached and how...
I AM referring to our conversation with God. This should be kept alive always and we should just try our best to find the appropriate ways to achieve it amid the changing circumstances of our day and despite setbacks, mistakes, failures and the sins that...
IN our pursuit for the truth, as when we do our best to update, refine or polish what we already know about our faith and what are already defined as truths and doctrine of faith, we have to avoid getting so trapped and imprisoned by...
I REMEMBER that in the 60s, during my high school days in the province, I never heard, much less, seen pornography. And the sin of self-abuse was practically unheard of. If ever, there only were very occasional and very hushed mention of them among the...
THESE are words of St. Paul. The complete quote goes this way: “Though I am free and belong to no one, I have made myself a slave to everyone, to win as many people possible. To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win...
THE expression comes from St Paul’s second letter to the Corinthians (4,7). It is meant to remind us that all of us, and particularly those who have been gifted with special graces and charisms, have a God-given treasure that is kept in delicate containers, that...
THAT’S what Christ told his disciples. When John the Baptist heard of what Christ was doing, he sent his disciples to ask Christ if he (Christ) was the one John told them was to come or should they expect someone else. The response of Christ was...
THIS is the irony of ironies. That is when one earnestly pursues the path of holiness and does practically everything to be good and holy, and yet ends up the opposite of what he wants. This is the danger self-righteousness. That’s when one practically has the...
WE have to be wary of our common tendency to seek ourselves rather than to seek God, which is proper to us. This tendency is usually actualized everyday as we go through the different events and concerns of the day. It’s good, of course, that we...
NEW Year’s Day, of course, liturgically coincides with the Solemnity of the divine maternity of our Lady. We should be reminded that we have to make ourselves new again spiritually and morally under the guidance of the Mother of God and our Mother also. Every New...
