A PASSAGE from the Letter of St. Paul to the Romans can serve as a graphic description of what is happening in many of the discussions people have about some hot issues. Let’s hope that we can be guided accordingly. “Claiming to be wise, they became...
“WHEN I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw all men to myself.” (Jn 12,32) With these words of Christ, we are given the fundamental law that ought to rule all our attractions, desires and appetites here on earth, whether they are big or...
I AM happy to learn that the next Synod of Bishops in Rome will focus on the topic of Young People, the Faith and Vocational Discernment. I believe it is a very timely and even urgent concern for the simple reason that the youth need...
WE need to be more familiar with this devotion. It’s actually a very helpful one in our daily affairs, since our guardian angels are our direct link to God. They see and attend to God face to face, and serve as his agents and messengers...
SOMEONE told me recently that we are now done with the millennials. We now have to deal with the emerging new Generation Z, also known as iGeneration, Post-Millennials, the young people born in the mid 1990s and mid 2000s. These are people who are practically born...
A PASSAGE in the Letter of St. Paul to the Philippians should enlighten us about how our attitude should be toward death. It’s when he said: “All I want is to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and to share his sufferings by...
WE need to be amply warned by this danger. Those powerful new technologies that we have now, that can give us a lot of benefits, can also become a big threat to our spiritual, moral and even physical life. They can indeed become a treacherous...
WE cannot deny that the world today is evolving very fast and is creating a more complicated one, generating multi-dimensional and multi-level aspects that are increasingly challenging our capacities. I, for one, as a priest have to cope now with so many multiplying things that require...
WHILE we have to take care of the little and ordinary things of the day, we should neither forget that we also have to be concerned about the big things that can involve us. We have to be wary of unwittingly being held hostage by...
FOR anything, that is. Since we are intelligent and free beings, we can turn everything in our life into an occasion for good or evil. But if we have the proper understanding of the purpose of our life here on earth, we should realize that...
