It all started with our first parents. After being created in the divine image and likeness and endowed with the best of things, they eventually disobeyed God's law and strayed away. It's a sad fact of life that continues to take place even up to now....
(I am again attaching an article of Robert Z. Cortez, a friend of mine. It has to do with the same-sex marriage decision of the US Supreme Court.) BY now no one has not seen those rainbow-colored #LoveWins memes. Or those rainbow-colored hearts that Twitter tacked...
We need to see to it that we are forming convictions, those strong, deep core beliefs that would serve as a clear and sure guide in our lives. We have to be wary of a certain culture, quite rampant these days, which simply fosters shallow...
We all know that life has more to offer than what we can manage. There are surprises both of the pleasant and welcome ones as well as the terribly unwelcome ones. There are heavy pressures and insoluble predicaments. We have to be ready for these...
As long as all these are properly grounded and oriented, there's nothing at all to worry. Smiling, laughing and having fun would do us no harm, and in fact would be and would do good to all. The world would be a much better place...
That's right, and I am now again back to school. It's just one among many other pastoral assignments given to me this year. But I welcome this opportunity to be involved in a school, since the suspenseful work of forming people is made easier by...
We have just celebrated the great solemnity of the Most Blessed Trinity. It is supposed to be, and in fact it is the most important mystery of our faith, the fount of all the other truths and mysteries of our faith, since it shows us...
WE all need to have spiritual direction. We have to allow the intricate workings of our spiritual life, which has to contend with all sorts of things in life, to be guided by somebody else, because though we are the ones who make the final...
We can approach this quest from two points of view. One is that we need to enrich our culture by deepening the knowledge of our own culture and that of the others. We need to monitor developments of the different cultures around. The other is to...
IN our spiritual and Christian life, we are expected to always ask God for all our needs, from the smallest to the biggest, from the most material to the most spiritual. We can never say that there are moments and situations when we don’t have...
