THIS is how our spiritual life should be, how our relation with God and with everybody else should be. It will always involve the dynamic of pivoting from where we are at the moment to another and higher level of love and self-giving. We have to be wary of our tendency
April 2, 2025
WE should do our best to pursue this ideal. We know that due to our wounded condition here on earth, there is division and conflict between our corporeal and spiritual dimensions of our life. St. Paul articulated this condition well when he said: “I do not do the good I want
April 1, 2025
SOMEONE sent me a podcast about how one should speak so that people listen and not get turned off. Among the mistakes that should be avoided in this regard are the following: neglecting to prepare, using filler words, talking too fast, talking too softly, forgetting to make eye contact, using distracting
March 31, 2025
THERE’S always hope despite whatever stupidities we commit or fall into. That, I think, is what the parable of the prodigal son, (cfr. Lk 15,11-32) among many other instances in the gospel, is telling us. Yes, we can be so bad as to lose what we may call as our sense
March 29, 2025
THIS is the condition proper to us in this world. We have to see to it that we are detached from the things of the world so we can fully give ourselves to God. We have to be wary of our tendency to be easily attached and trapped in our worldly
March 28, 2025
THAT’S from Psalm 95,8 that is often used in many liturgical prayers. And rightly so, since we are notorious precisely for not listening to God but prefer to listen to our own selves and to the things of this world. We should learn how not to harden our hearts so
March 27, 2025
THAT’S what we can conclude if we are to follow what Christ himself said: “Do not think that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets, I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. For amen I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot, or
March 26, 2025
A NUMBER of precious considerations can be drawn when we consider the significance of this Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord, when the Son of God gets conceived as man in the virginal womb of Mary. One is that God always takes the initiative to come to us, to be
March 25, 2025
A GOOD number of times, the Bible reminds us of the need of this virtue of sobriety. The following passages are a few of the examples: 1 Thessalonians 5,6-8: “Let us be awake and sober, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet.”
March 24, 2025
THIS is what we can gather from that gospel parable about a certain man who planted a fig tree in his vineyard and who after 3 years sought for a fruit but did not find one. (cfr. Lk 13,6-9) Frustrated, he wanted to cut it down, but was appeased by the
March 22, 2025
IN all our relationships, especially with God, the ideal condition to pursue and achieve is that of intimacy and ardor. While this would require tremendous effort and sacrifice, we should convince ourselves that pursuing it would be all worthwhile. Of course, we should not forget that we would need, first of
March 21, 2025
