“WHOEVER loves his father or mother more than me is not worthy of me…” (Mt 10,37) These are some intriguing words Christ spoke to his apostles. They are intriguing to us as well. We, of course, love both God and our parents, but sometimes we do...
OF COURSE, in its ideal state, love will always be sweet. In fact, it is going to be a bliss where God “will wipe every tear from the eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of...
RELAX! Don’t take life’s problems too seriously. They will have their time, but surely they will not have all the time. There’s a time for everything. Things in this life come and go. The only permanent thing and the only thing that can avoid the...
MANY people would say it is a matter of the mind, as in mind over matter, or as in a matter of psychologising oneself. In a sense, or at least partially, what they say is correct. But there’s a lot more that is involved in...
THE Solemnity of the Transfiguration of the Lord somehow reminds us that there is a forever. When Christ transfigured himself before his three apostles Peter, James and John, he tried to reassure them not to worry about what was going to happen to him on...
IT may give us the sensation that we are chasing rainbows, boiling the ocean, tilting at windmills, going in circles, but actually figuring out what God’s will for us is at any given moment is the most objective reality that we should try our best...
IT’S definitely a lifelong affair. We can never say we already enjoy integrity in this life, because in the next breath we would already know that we have to struggle to keep at least some semblance of it. Such is our condition here in this life....
“LET them grow together until harvest.” That was the answer of the master in one of the parables about the kingdom of heaven. (cfr Mt 13,24-43) He was telling the servants to let the weeds sown by his enemy to grow together with the wheat....
WE have in school a mentoring program. The idea is to provide each student someone he can talk to freely not only about academic matters but also about other concerns, be they personal, family, financial, etc. It’s amazing that there can be endless things to tackle...
We need to be ready to react properly whenever we fall. We cannot simply remain in the level of our instincts and feelings when this thing happens. And since falling is rather a common occurrence, we really need to know how to deal with it,...
