The Mindanao Week of Peace this year which starts on November 25 and ends on December 1 bears the theme: Interfaith Unity Inspiring Health Protocols. The joint statement of the convenors, the Bishops-Ulama Conference, recognized that “Directives and guidelines, ambitiously termed protocols, demand willing obedience...
IT’S the season of Advent again, opening a new liturgical year. There can be many things that can come to mind with this season of Advent. For one, it’s a time of expecting and preparing for the birth of Christ on Christmas. That is in...
“HEAVEN and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.” (Lk 21,33) With these words of Christ, we should feel the need to know what exactly is God’s word. Why will it not pass away? The simple answer is that God’s word is not...
WE should not be surprised that as we end the liturgical year, the readings of the Mass these days focus on the end times. They are not meant to scare us but rather to encourage us to be properly prepared and to really lock our...
GIVEN the fact that we have already been warned by Christ that the world will end badly and that in our life, we will always have some trouble, (cfr. Lk 21,12-19) we should be properly prepared for this condition in our life by learning how...
IF we have to have integrity in our Christian life, we should realize that we are meant for eternal life with God in heaven. We therefore should be always prepared for it, ready also to leave everything behind in this world which is meant only...
THAT gospel story of the poor widow giving her two small coins into the temple treasury (cfr. Lk 21,1-4) once again reminds us about how true Christian poverty leads to generosity and total self-giving which is the very essence of love that in turn is...
As we participate in the celebration of Red Wednesday on November 24, we hope that first, our commitment to the sufferings brought about by the challenge of our faith become stronger. When our sincerity of service is called for as members of the Church and...
God does not need us because He is self-sufficient. Because He is the source of everything that exists. But He has a claim on our awareness, recognition and respect, of our gratitude, humility, and trust. More importantly, over and above everything supreme or the best we can...
THIS Solemnity marks the end of a liturgical year, somehow reminding us that as long as we are still in this temporal world, we have to go through a cycle of beginning and ending, until we spin off to the world of eternity where our...