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...
THIS is what we should be very clear about. True freedom can only be found in God, in Christ who is the God made man to reveal to us who God is and who we are in relation to God. It is Christ who tells us...
WE need to pause if only to figure out how we can meet our need for continuing education and formation under and for the new normal. Things are quite different now, and there are bases to think that these differences are quite drastic and will...
WE should develop the proper sense of responsibility and abandonment. Given our human condition that is marked both by power and weakness, talents and limitations, we should feel responsible for everything in our life as much as possible, as well as learn to live the...
ESPECIALLY these days when we are easily carried away by many distracting elements, what with all we can devour in the social media, videos, etc., we need to remind ourselves quite strongly that we have to be well focused on what is truly essential in...
I’M referring to the 500 years of Christianity in the Philippines, the preparation for the celebration of its anniversary the Archdiocese of Cebu, in particular, is now in its final sprint. It’s definitely a complex question to answer. We can say, of course, that many good...