ACTUALLY, more than what stirs our passions the most, the question to ask should be who makes us most passionate? If we are just passionate about things, certainly we are still very far from the ideal. And even if we are very passionate about some...
BECAUSE of our abnormal times, we are asked to submit ourselves to certain protocols that we usually do not have during normal times. Right now, we are asked, and we should obey, those strict indications about social or physical distancing, wearing of masks, washing of...
A COMMON “complaint” God makes of us, if we may call it that way, is that we do not use our senses—our sense of sight, hearing, smell, touch, etc.—to perceive what is really most important for us to perceive. This “complaint” is expressed, for example, in...
THIS may sound like a fantastic and overwhelming exercise, but I believe it is something necessary for us to do if we want to have the proper priorities in life, and thus to be properly guided. Especially these days when we are bombarded with so...
Two mystics and a theologian papal retreat master can help us explain. The German physician, poet and priest convert from Lutheranism, Johann Scheffler who adapted the name Angelus Silesius, had once said, "Though Jesus Christ were born in Bethlehem a thousand times/but not in you, then...
IT’S always good to be on fire, burning with religious fervor, driven, active, fully inspired, etc. But let’s see to it that we do not fall into fanaticism and bitter zeal. We have to learn to distinguish between the two that, in these times, can...
As our gratitude to God for the gift of faith, the Mission Society of the Philippines was conceived in 1965. Special remembrance is attributed to foreign missionaries who introduced us the Catholic faith. Thanks to their way of offering their lives in learning our culture...
WITH the somehow foreseeable new landscape of the post-Covid world, we can tell that we have no time to waste as we face new and, most likely, formidable challenges. It’s very likely that we have to do some innovations, reinventions and upskilling, if we want...
WHILE it is good to have a high self-esteem, it is not when we get fat in self-importance. A high self-esteem is the objective awareness of who we really are. An obese self-importance is an exaggerated sense of our value and importance. It is not good...
SINCE we do not know how this whole Covid pandemic will play out, how long it will take before things get somehow settled down, and what lasting effects it would make, we should be, of course, hoping and praying for the best while preparing ourselves...