MANY people have asked me how true freedom, the one that really comes from God, feels. Of course, what is presumed behind that query is that there are so many ideas about what true freedom is and how it should feel such that people often...
WE need to know what our proper rest really is. Nowadays, people have different and even conflicting ideas about what it is. For some it is purely something physical. For others, it is more on the emotional and psychological side. There are those who think that...
THAT can easily be surmised from what Christ said in the gospel of St. Matthew. “Some of the scribes and Pharisees said to Jesus, ‘Teacher, we wish to see a sign from you.’ He said to them in reply, ‘An evil and adulterous generation seeks...
WE have to be very wary in our use of the new things. They can be very attractive since they give us a lot of advantages. But we should never forget that we need to also develop the appropriate attitudes and skills, because together with...
WHEN we truly have God’s love in our heart, no evil, no sin, no matter how grave, ugly and tempting, can scandalize us. With God’s love, we can manage to bear all this without compromising our sense of what is right and wrong. With God’s...
IT’S a question we should ask ourselves from time to time. We just cannot and should not end the day in any which way. There is actually a proper way to do it, and we should be aware that many are the ways that are...
CHRIST told us this very clearly. “Whoever loses his life for my sake, he is the one who will save it.” (Lk 9,24) We need to make some drastic adjustments in our attitudes and thinking to accommodate this truth of our faith as spoken plainly...
YES, why not? We should throw away the notion that when we have troubles, we should be troubled and sad. No. It does not have to be that way. If we have faith in God, if our spiritual life is strong and healthy, we know...
THAT’S our life here on earth. God is still forming us to be what he wants us to be—his image and likeness, his adopted children meant to share in his very own life. Our creation is not yet finished. It’s still a work in progress....
BECAUSE of the way we are, with our intelligence and will that enable us to know, to choose, to feel free, to love, etc, we will always have the possibilities of either rising to the zenith of our humanity, making ourselves no less than “another...