A NEWS item recently from the US reported that many American priests are stressed out, burned out due to the load they carry, and that many of them feel isolated. To top it all, they are assailed now by a lot of scandals ranging from...
WITH the Feast of the Holy Family, we should take time to examine how our own families conform to the model family of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph. We should never take this occasion and duty for granted. Our families, like each...
THAT amusing episode about St. Joseph thinking of quietly separating from Our Lady because he found her already with child in her womb before they lived together (cfr. 1,18-25) is a good lesson and reminder that we just have to chill out when faced with...
FEELING helpless in our prayer can come to us anytime. We can experience such dryness that we would not feel the slightest need for God nor the need to pray, to go and talk to him. Many times, we would not know how to relate...
CHRISTMAS is, of course, about the birth of our Lord, Jesus Christ. It is such a beautiful event that, thanks to God, we still like to romanticize to the hilt. But no matter how much romance and fantasy we put in there, we know that...
I JUST find it extremely unbelievable that some women, in justifying their so-called right to abort their babies, would say, “It’s my own body,” as if to say it’s none of your business to meddle in their choices. So, back off! I don’t know exactly what...
WE should always be wary of the usual conflict between our body and soul, and be ready to resolve it as quickly as possible so that the ideal unity of life can be achieved even as we go through the different situations of our life. Christ...
IN reaching out to those who are still far from the Church, those who are even hostile to it, those in the peripheries, etc., as we should, following the example and command of Christ, a most basic and commonsensical principle to follow is that we...
THAT’S one thing we should always bear in mind whenever we are assailed by evil in any form it may come. It always has to refer to something true and good which it tries to twist, distort or outrightly deny. It cannot stand on its...
WE always have to defer to God for everything that we say or affirm. Even if we are fully convinced that we are right in affirming something, we have to realize that we cannot be fully right unless we affirm it together with God. God has...
