IF we are really good citizens of our country, truly concerned about how things are, then we should be, one way or another, a good activist pursuing advocacies that can make authentic improvements in the different fields of our social and political life. We cannot deny...
CASES like this are unfortunately getting plenty. I am referring to those individuals who have succeeded in converting from their colorful past but are still being assailed, almost constantly, by the bad thoughts and images of the past, with matching feelings. Especially in their weak moments,...
WE need to understand that our Christian faith is first of all God’s gift to us to enable us to have the possibility of sharing the supernatural life of God, of whom we have been created as his image and likeness. That’s how God wants...
INTIMACY is the ideal condition in all our relationships. But we have to be intimate with God first before we can be intimate with everybody and everything else in the proper way. This need for intimacy is, of course, a necessary consequence of being a person...
WE should never underestimate the power of the vocal prayers. They may sound trite and worn-out after years of simply mechanically praying them, but they actually are the quickest and easiest way we can make use of to put ourselves truly and divinely inspired. And the...
THE quick and short answer to that question is because we are not with God, from whom all good things come. We prefer to be on our own, even to make ourselves our own God. Of course, separated from God, from whom, to repeat, all...
WE should be experts in discerning the spirit that animates us. Our life principle is our soul which is spiritual. As such, we need to know the kind of spirit that animates our soul that in turn animates our whole life. We have to realize that...
WE have to give due attention—and care—to our sense of consciousness. We should not just allow it to flow in any way. We need to direct it, we need to shape it, we need to fill it with something that should be appropriate to us...
IF we truly want to be genuine friends and brothers and sisters to everybody else, we need to practice empathy first. Hopefully that gesture will elicit a corresponding similar response of the others toward us, and so we can enter into the world of intersubjectivity...
IF we have to be practical in this life, exerting effort to attend and resolve all our issues and challenges, not to mention, to be truly being faithful and consistent to the living Christ who continues to be with us in the Holy Spirit, then...
