The greatest threat in family life is sickness. That is why COVID-19 evidently affected each of our families. Those who got sick with this virus suffered the absence of a loved one in difficult times of physical weakness. Those whose loved ones died due to...
THAT’S how our love should be. It should be stable and firm in all kinds of weather and season in life. It should remain alive and throbbing in any circumstance and condition. It should be universal in scope, excluding no one in its concern. Whether at...
Fraternity is a state of human relationship created by a common unifying bond which entitles one person to call another his brother or her sister. In a family, the common bond is blood. In parental adoption, it is the document. In Christianity it is sacramental baptism. Outside...
WE have to be wary of this danger that is clearly becoming widespread. Self-indulgence is a constant threat, especially these days when good and evil are so mixed up that we would mostly likely be left confused and easily taken by sweet poisons that today’s...
FOR fun, people nowadays often make and trade jokes about marriage. Some of the recent ones that managed to tickle me are the following: - I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. (Bill Clinton) - There’s a way of transferring...
CHRISTIAN life is both difficult and easy. Difficult because it truly demands more than what we can give or cope. The goal it wants us to aim at is nothing less than something supernatural, not merely natural. That goal can only be fully achieved in...
WE have to be wary of these tricks that news and opinion makers often use these days to push their ideas, agenda or narrative. While it’s good that they should set out their credentials to establish and strengthen their credibility, we have to see if...
THE feast of the Presentation of the Lord, which falls on February 2, can be considered as another epiphany, another manifestation of Christ as our savior. This time, the manifestation is done not to the three magi anymore, but to two characters, Simeon and Anna. The...
IN English, this Latin expression can be roughly translated as our mission toward all the people. This expression, by the way, is made by our bishops as the pastoral theme for year 2021 that culminates the preparation for and begins the celebration of the 500...
Niining third Sunday sa ordinary time, ordinary section sa church year, niadtong November 30, 2019, hinapos na, pang-ending na sa 2019 mipahayag ang Santo Papa si Pope Francis, sa usa ka Apostolic Letter murag bag direksiyon, murag instruction ang tawag “motu propio” Aperuit illis. Latin ang...