WHAT a day it was! Still quite early in the morning, I already received several calls from friends and acquaintances asking for urgent clarifications about what they heard from the Pope. Apparently, from what they read in some news outlets, the Pope is now changing...
WE have to remind ourselves strongly about this fundamental truth about ourselves. That’s because we are practically forgetting it and are increasingly suffering the dire consequences. We have to live under God’s providence, understanding first of all what providence is. Many of us are ignorant of...
WE have to be clear about this very heartwarming truth of our faith. God is always willing to forgive us no matter how grave our sins are. He always offers forgiveness to us and it is all up to us to take that offer. We...
SUCH is life as we go through different circumstances and situations, the twists and turns in life. And now that we are in this pandemic mode, we are talking about a new or next normal where many of the usual things we used to have...
WE have to realize that the proper development of our humanity, let alone, our Christianity, of both our natural self and our spiritual and supernatural self would involve that we look both outside us and inside us. We have to look outward because that is how...
IN life, this is the spirit and attitude we should have. Otherwise, we would easily be overcome by the twists and turns, the drama of life that can come from light to heavy and can be entirely confusing, sweeping us to situations we would not...
THAT’S Latin for “not many, but much,” a reference to how our loving and self-giving should be or how our generosity is shown. What it means is that our loving is not so much a matter of quantity as of quality, not so much of...
TAKING care of our culture may appear to be too much for each one of us to be concerned about. But make no mistake about it. Each one of us definitely has a grave duty to take care of it. Culture may sound too big...
WE have to develop an abiding and burning desire to fulfill the real purpose of our life. We should be clear about this ultimate purpose of ours so we can have the proper sense of direction and focus in our life, and the corresponding urge...
IT’S good that from time to time we again read about the many miracles Christ performed that are recorded in the gospels if only to be strongly reminded of God’s power that we seem, little by little, to take for granted and ignore today. We always...