Now that we are holding in Cebu the 51st International Eucharistic Congress, it is imperative that we once again give this most important and sublime sacrament a long, hard look if only to savor more deeply its many implications, spiritual and moral, theological and practical,...
I don't think it's an irrelevant or irreverent question to ask. Given the temper of the times, I believe it's a question that needs to be asked, though some qualifications also have to be made. While things related to our faith and piety have a distinctive...
NOW THAT we will be going through another political exercise of choosing our political leaders, we first of all have to go to God, praying and begging that we be enlightened and that the whole process be peaceful, beneficial and fruitful to all of us....
Oh, what tremendous goodness praising God can do to us! If we can manage to truly praise God, we can safely say that our heart is really with God. No one can praise God unless God is fully with him and he is fully with...
Now that the political scene in our country is getting hot and hotter by the day, we need to clarify a few points, so we all can do politics as it should be done, or, in another way of saying the same thing, as befits...
It's, of course, a given. We are all sinners! There's nothing new about that. Whether you are a priest or a mayor, saintly-looking, good-looking or plain-looking, we all have feet of clay, and from time to time, we fall in spite of our best efforts....
In our political discussions and exchanges, it's just fine to be partisan as long as we are open and respectful of all other views, including those that are different and opposed to ours. We should avoid any form of extremism by demonizing others who do...
We have to be ready for wherever divine providence would take us. We have to be open to it all the time. Even as we make our plans and pursue them truly as our own, we should not forget that nothing in our life is...
Nowadays, we are seeing a lot of people depending solely on their senses, judgments and reasoning in tackling all their temporal affairs with hardly any reference to God's will and plans. Obviously, for Christian believers, all these senses and human intelligence and will are God-given and,...
THESE are what we have to look for in choosing our public officials. Of course, to be realistic, we have to put these qualities in the context of the candidates’ popularity and electability. But for Pete’s sake, let’s not make mere popularity the main guide...
