TO be sure, a certain detachment from the things of this world and even from people is required of us if we want to be a true and effective disciple of Christ. He himself said it quite clearly: “If anyone comes to me without hating...
WE should be most thankful that as a people, we Filipinos still have a deep and strong devotion to those of our brothers and sisters who have gone ahead of us to eternal life. Sad to say, in some places that are often blighted by...
THIS Solemnity is not only an occasion to celebrate the success stories of holiness of those who are already in heaven, and are recognized and canonized by the Church as saints. It is also a strong reminder that all of us are called to holiness....
WE should very well know, by now, what God’s greatest commandment is for us. We have to be clear about what God wants us to be and to do in this life, and this is none other than to love God with everything we have...
WE cannot deny that all of us can have some doubts about who Christ is and what he is to us. These days in the world in general, we can see strong evidence of a culture of skepticism, agnosticism, religious indifferentism, if not, outright atheism. This...
“Jesus went up to the mountain to pray, and he spent the night in prayer to God.” (Lk 6,12) What a tremendous fact in the life of Christ for us to consider! We should be edified by that example. Christ is God and therefore has no...
CHRIST said it very clearly. We have to enter by the narrow gate if we want to survive the trials and challenges of our earthly life and arrive at our proper eternal home. (cfr. Lk 13,22-30) We cannot deny that we are prone to fall...
IN the gospel, the Kingdom of God is often compared to the little things. Christ said that the Kingdom is like “a mustard seed that a man took and planted in the garden. When it was fully grown, it became a large bush…” Again, he...
WHEN Christ cured on a Sabbath a woman who had been crippled by an evil spirit for eighteen years, he was corrected by the synagogue leader for violating the law on the Sabbath. (cfr. Lk 13,10-17) That was when Christ made the following clarification: “Does not...
THAT gospel character Bartimaeus, the blind man, gives us a precious lesson with respect to a certain blindness that we all have. Like him, we have to acknowledge our blindness and humbly beg Christ for a cure by repeating Bartimaeus’ words, “Master, I want to...