WE have to be clear about this point. Our Christian life here on earth will always involve some war, some struggle and effort, some combat. But all of this would be done in peace and for peace. The combination may sound incredible, but that is...
This year's Father's Day will be on the 20th day of June. Have you thought of a gift or a gesture to give to your father? You still have some time to think and organize a surprise for him. Fathers play an important role in our...
In last week’s Shalom article on blessing fishermen and SMC pump boats, I wrote that it was an interfaith experience which was characterized by acceptable words and gestures of the hand. I forgot to mention Clenched Fist. Why clenched fist? Actually, this was not explained as...
For five years now, DXGN 89.9 Spirit FM has been spreading the Good News to our homes, work places and streets after it ceased operation in 2008. In this time of the pandemic, we realize that we needed more than ever our media platforms in...
Greetings my dear brothers and sisters! Maayong adlaw kaninyong tanan. A blessed Sunday to all of you. Today is June 13, Sunday but also the fiesta of San Antonio de Padua and you remember also today is the birthday of the late Archbishop Antonio Mabutas. But...
THE close, almost cause-and-effect relationship between chastity and piety should be known, appreciated and pursued as early as possible. It can be as early as at the childhood stage, since as we are told in a Wadsworth poem, “the child is the father of the...
WE have to realize more deeply that it is a basic need of ours to pray. If we understand our life to be a life always with God, as our Christian faith tells us, then we need to pray always, because prayer is like the...
THERE should be no doubt about this. No ifs or buts. Sanctification is and should be our main business in this life, our constant concern all throughout. And that’s simply because at the end of the day, at the end of our life, that is...
WE may be at the moment enjoying life because we are still young, healthy, vibrant and, yes, beautiful and handsome. But never forget that there will come a time when all these qualities start to ebb away, and we start losing things—our memory, our hair...
THIS is what Christ recommends if we truly want to follow him. “Enter through the narrow gate,” he said. “For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow...