THAT Christ knew that he would be betrayed by one of those close to him and thus suffer the consequences—his passion and death on the cross (cfr. Mt 26,14-25)—should remind us that we too would be betrayed, if not by others then by our own selves—and that we too would have
April 16, 2025
THIS is a “caveat emptor” that will always be relevant in our whole life. We may already consider ourselves as good Christians because we pray, attend Mass, do some good works, etc. But if our relation with Christ is really not strong, deep and abiding, and always in the process of
April 15, 2025
IF we really want to capture the heart of Christ, if we really want to have the same love he has for all of us, then we should train ourselves to get involved in the lives of others. That’s what Christ is showing us and is, in fact, commanding us to
April 14, 2025
WITH the celebration of Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord’s Passion, we begin the Holy Week of our liturgical calendar, the most important week of the year that commemorates the culmination of the redemptive mission of our Lord Jesus Christ. It’s on this day that we are told how
April 12, 2025
WE should process well this truth about ourselves so that we would always feel urged to continually feel this need for repentance and conversion. We know that despite our best efforts, we know that sooner or later we fall into sin. St. John in his First Letter said it so clearly:
April 11, 2025
THAT’S the challenge we have to learn to tackle. That’s because prayer is the ideal condition we can have in this life. It establishes and keeps our proper relation with God. It makes us discern God’s abiding interventions in our life, prompting us on how we have to think, speak, do,
April 10, 2025
INDEED, that is what would surely happen. Without God, despite whatever brilliance and human and worldly success we may manage to achieve through our powers alone, everything would just be an exercise of self-indulgence and vanity that would lead us nowhere other than the ultimate disaster. That is why Christ tried
April 9, 2025
LET’S hope that we give due attention to this basic duty of ours of how to be docile to the abiding promptings of God through the Holy Spirit. Let’s remember that God is our creator and we are his creatures. As such, God and us as creator and creatures can and
April 8, 2025
THIS is what we can gather from the story of the beautiful Susannah who was the object of lust by two elderly men and who was falsely accused of wrongdoing because she refused to accede to their evil request. (cfr. Daniel 13,41c-62) These two elders occupied high positions in the community,
April 7, 2025
THIS somehow is the lesson we can draw from that gospel episode about the woman caught in adultery and dragged to Christ to see if she should be stoned to death according to some Mosaic law. (cfr. Jn 8,1-11) As the story unfolds, Christ simply kept quiet, knowing that those who
April 5, 2025
THESE should be the effects if we truly have a good prayer. We would be filled with inspiration and affection and moved to make resolutions to follow and fulfill what God wants of us. We would have a purpose-driven life, not one marked by boredom, etc. To be sure, God is
April 4, 2025
THIS should be the request that we should constantly make as we pursue the real goal of our life, which is our own sanctification and our duty to do apostolate. God in Christ has offered us “the way, the truth and the life” so we can manage to be on the
April 3, 2025
