MANY of us may still remember the catechisms that we studied and tried to memorize in our grade school and high school. The usual memory we have of those days is that of simply rattling off what was memorized if only to pass the quizzes...
WE need to remind ourselves that holiness can be occasioned, (not caused, of course) by sin. And so we have to devise a spirituality that recognizes this very important fact and acts on it accordingly. Just a reminder: it’s God’s grace and our correspondence to it...
WE should always expect the possibility for us to fall into some state of helplessness, not only of the transitory type but also of the permanent one. That’s just being realistic. And upon that possibility, let’s make the necessary preparation, building up the appropriate attitude,...
I WAS reminded of these words from an old song, which I am now using as the title of this piece, when the sneaky maneuver to end the RH bill debate in Congress some years back triggered an explosion of angry reactions both from the...
THIS is the challenge of Easter. Christ’s resurrection has reopened the gates of heaven and has given us a way to enter it. With his rising from the dead, we are given a new life. We are now a new creation, a new man because...
AS we are now inching our way toward the celebration of the International Eucharistic Congress 2016, let me just comment a little on the prayer prepared for such big event. It’s a beautiful prayer that should be on the lips of all of us, meaning it...
We have the tendency to apply to ourselves the adage, ‘Birds of a feather flock together,’ which is unfair to both the birds and us, for the simple reason that we are not birds, and birds are not men. We are expected, nay, obliged, to...
To be sure, that's the law that should govern us who, being created in the image and likeness of God who is love, are meant to love and for love. In short, love is the be-all and end-all of our life and our whole being....
NOW that we are in the season of Lent, it’s good to consider some facts of life that we tend to take lightly, if not to ignore altogether. We need to confront the dark reality of our sinfulness as well as the reassuring reality of...
IT'S always a necessity for us to be able to see the bigger, if not the whole picture, and to avoid getting stuck with the small picture. More than that, we need to see the vital link between the small picture and the big one,...
