WE have to be most wary of the so-called Frankenstein effect of our new technologies. As defined by some dictionary, the Frankenstein effect is “any agency or creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.” It is like a sweet poison,...
THERE’S a certain urgency to make the family today an effective center of formation. With all the growing developments and complicated challenges of our times, we cannot afford to sit pretty and just allow blind fate to take its course. We have to take the...
CONTRARY to what some people think, I believe that planning and strategizing are becoming more relevant today when we can observe a very rapid and even neck-breaking pace of developments and changes. If handled properly with the right attitudes, dispositions and skills, the plans and strategies...
THIS is a question we need to ask ourselves as early as possible. And, of course, we should try to get the right answer. It’s a question Christ asked the two disciples who followed Christ after John the Baptist referred to Christ as the Lamb...
TO gloat is “contemplate or dwell on one's own success or another's misfortune with smugness or malignant pleasure.” It’s never a good thing to do, yet nowadays many people often fall precisely into that. They flaunt their achievements, they strut their stuff, they even show off...
IT would certainly be naive of us if we do not expect and prepare ourselves somehow for disasters and calamities to come our way. They are actually unavoidable, given the way we and the world in general are. Nature itself has its limitations which can...
NO, it’s not the Visayan way of pronouncing the word, “upscaling.” It’s really a legitimate word, coined, I suppose, recently in view of the many new developments around, especially in the digital world. It means “to teach additional skills” or to upgrade one’s skills. It is...
THE season of Lent is meant for sharpening our skills in spiritual warfare. This should be foremost in our mind as we go through the highly recommended acts of penance and mortification during these days of Lent. We cannot deny that our life here on earth...
WITH Ash Wednesday, we enter a new season of Lent. In spite of the gloom and austerity usually associated with it, there’s actually something new and bright to it. That’s because Lent involves a certain dying to ourselves so we can be born again in...
GENUINE sanctity, and not just the many forms of apparent and fake holiness sadly proliferating in the world today, will always require heroism. And it need not be lived and achieved in some extraordinary situations. It can be attained even in the very ordinary things...
