THAT’S what Christ clearly said. “Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest,” he said. (Mt 11,28) For those who try to follow Christ faithfully and are burdened as can be expected, they should find consolation in...
YES, indeed! It always pays to be simple and humble. And the reason is because such qualities can only attract God to us. Take note of what Christ once said: “I give praise to you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for although you have...
WE have to realize that we always need repentance and conversion. We have to be wary of the danger of feeling we are all ok just because we think we are already doing a lot of good things and have in fact in some cases...
THAT is not a smart-alecky statement. It has to be taken seriously, since in a sense it comes from Christ himself. Note what he said in the Gospel of St. Matthew: “Do not think that I have come to bring peace upon the earth. I have...
MAKE no mistake about this. If we truly love God, we also should love our neighbor who can be anybody and everybody. This truth of our faith was highlighted when in the gospel a scholar asked Christ what he had to do to gain eternal...
“BE shrewd as serpents and simple as doves.” (Mt 10,16) What a combination of qualities Christ is telling us! Hard and even impossible as it may seem, we just have to try our best to achieve such condition, obviously with God’s grace, because as Christ...
“AS you go, make this proclamation: ‘The Kingdom of heaven is at hand.’ Cure the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, drive out demons. Without cost you have received; without cost you are to give.” (Mt 10,7-8) Words of Christ addressed to his apostles and...
IF we truly are consistent with our Christian identity, there should be no doubt that an essential part of it is that we are meant to be apostles and disciples of Christ who is asking us to go to the whole world, preach the gospel,...
FAMOUS words of Christ that present to us the stark reality of our condition here on earth. (cfr. Mt 9,37) There are just so many things to do and accomplish in our life and yet there are only a few hands to do them. Speaking alone...
SITUATIONS like this can happen in our life. In fact, we have to expect them. With our many limitations and the varying conditions we are subject to, there surely will be times when we find ourselves helpless in spite of all the effort we do...