WE have to make sure that our piety and our devotion to God and everything related to him has to involve both the body and soul. It has to involve our whole person. It just cannot be purely spiritual or purely material. It just cannot...
WE need to have due concern for this matter. We are now in a fast-moving-and-evolving digital world and we cannot afford to be ignorant and illiterate in its ways. We have to level up. As described by Wikipedia, the purpose of being information and media literate...
YES, indeed! Only God fully knows who man is, who we really are. Being our creator, he is the only one who can capture our entire essence, not only in the macro level but also in the micro, not only in the general aspects of...
WITH new scandals assailing parts of the Church today (mainly in the US), we are reminded that we are into another round of crucifixion time for our Mother, the Church. We should not be surprised anymore by this development. But we should be prepared to...
WE should never lose sight of the fact, a happy truth of our faith, that there is always hope for us despite the persistence of evil and our continual falls to sin. St. Paul has reassured us that where sin has abounded, God’s grace has...
FROM the Book of Proverbs comes this passage that shows us how God practically begs us to love him. “My child, give me your heart and let your eyes delight in my ways.” (23,26) Note that he does not force us to love him, deferring...
THIS is a line from the poem, The Rainbow, by William Wordsworth. (1770-1850) It means that man is the product of his habits and behavior developed in childhood. In other words, how we are as a child largely determines how we will be as a...
WE need to be strongly reminded of this basic truth about ourselves. We tend to ignore it. Especially when we think that we are already grown-up and mature, well endowed with talents and resources, and enjoy a great sense of independence, we have to pound...
WE, of course, are all free to express an opinion on any public issue at hand. In fact, this should be encouraged, since this will help in ferreting out what is truly helpful to the general public. We just have to do it as responsibly as...
IT is often said that when one is very orderly and focused on things, he most likely will fail to consider other things that may be more important. He becomes a rigid, one-track-minded person. Of course, there is some truth to that observation, especially when the...
