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,...
WE need to see the unity between heaven and earth, and try our best, with God’s grace, to conform to such reality. Obviously, this unity between heaven and earth will always be a tentative one while we are still here on earth, but we need...
IT'S obvious that we have to do all we can to combat bad poverty. That's the poverty that dehumanizes us, that undermines our dignity as persons and as children of God. Anything that stands in the way of what we ought to be, both in...
ONE very crucial virtue in our life is sincerity. That, of course, has something to do with truth. Our genuine development and perfection as persons and as society would depend to a large extent on how we are sincere, or on how we understand and...
IN October of this year in the Vatican, the 14th ordinary general assembly of the synod of bishops will take place with the aim of discussing about the vocation and the mission of the family in the Church and in the contemporary world. We need to pray...
I, of course, find this topic a bit funny. I thought the relevance of Christ in our life and in everything in it is beyond question. But I'm meeting more and more people raising that question up, or at least admitting that they in theory...
We have to know when to be afraid and when not. We have to distinguish between a good fear and a bad fear, a healthy one and a sick one. We need to know how to handle and deal with our fears that are unavoidable...
WITH Pope Francis pushing what he calls as the Church of mercy and compassion, we all have to do some adjustments in our attitudes and thinking, because with that call some kind of paradigm shift is actually being presented to us for the life of...
THE Church, through our bishops, has declared 2015 the Year of the Poor. It’s part of grand 9-year plan of new evangelization in preparation of the celebration of the fifth centenary of the Christianization of the Philippines in 2021. We should do all we can to...
