THEY go together like inseparable twins. If love is true, then there will be zero bitterness even if a lot of pain and suffering are involved. Authentic love, which can only reflect God’s unconditional love for us, will make things sweet and meaningful. True love, as...
IF Christ had to empty himself if only to be like us and with us, should we not also try to reciprocate the same process of emptying ourselves so that we can be like him and be with him? St. Paul precisely had this in mind...
THIS is no gratuitous, baseless pursuit. We are not indulging in some fantasy when we exert the effort to make Christ alive in us. In the first place, because Christ himself is alive. He continues to be with us and is, in fact, actively intervening...
THIS is the attitude to have in life. First we should have a clear vision of our goal in life, translating that goal into stages. And then let’s stir up all our faculties to achieve that goal. We can take St. Paul’s words as some kind...
A PASSAGE from the Letter of St. Paul to the Romans can serve as a graphic description of what is happening in many of the discussions people have about some hot issues. Let’s hope that we can be guided accordingly. “Claiming to be wise, they became...
“WHEN I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw all men to myself.” (Jn 12,32) With these words of Christ, we are given the fundamental law that ought to rule all our attractions, desires and appetites here on earth, whether they are big or...
I AM happy to learn that the next Synod of Bishops in Rome will focus on the topic of Young People, the Faith and Vocational Discernment. I believe it is a very timely and even urgent concern for the simple reason that the youth need...
WE need to be more familiar with this devotion. It’s actually a very helpful one in our daily affairs, since our guardian angels are our direct link to God. They see and attend to God face to face, and serve as his agents and messengers...
SOMEONE told me recently that we are now done with the millennials. We now have to deal with the emerging new Generation Z, also known as iGeneration, Post-Millennials, the young people born in the mid 1990s and mid 2000s. These are people who are practically born...
A PASSAGE in the Letter of St. Paul to the Philippians should enlighten us about how our attitude should be toward death. It’s when he said: “All I want is to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and to share his sufferings by...
