It’s normal for traditional Olympic sports athletes such as runners and swimmers to break world records that were held for years and decades. But world class action and adventure sports athletes such as rock climbers and kayakers would regularly break world records in just a few weeks or months. And
November 21, 2023
According to St. Thomas persons are named after saints which would be a name dependent on the day the person is born and coincides on the feast day of that particular saint. Our Christian belief is that when we are named after saints or a personality in Scripture that saint
November 16, 2023
Perhaps you are the person who tends to work 5 straight hours, especially if you have a project or report to finish, with no breaks during those 5 hours. You’ve skipped lunch and you feel proud that you have accomplished more than your workmates or classmates the entire morning. But
November 15, 2023
There is a passage in St. Matthew’s Gospel that could make us quiver. These are tough and unsettling statements from our Lord. “Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to
November 10, 2023
Here’s a best-seller book to help us get rid of bad habits and replace them with good ones, written by Charles Duhigg entitled, “The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business”. According to the author, eliminating a bad habit with sheer willpower rarely works.
November 9, 2023
St. Thomas Aquinas says in his Summa Theologiae, “The saints who are in heaven are closer to God than we who are still on earth. Much more, therefore, should we ask the saints who are in heaven to help us by their prayers to God.” It is good to ask
October 27, 2023
If you are the type that has a tendency to choke or get anxious during crucial moments of a game or while giving a speech or report, this book, “The Mindful Athlete: The Secrets to Pure Performance” by George Mumford is for you. The book tells the story of snowboarder
October 26, 2023
If you are the person who tends to easily give up on life’s challenges, you need the virtue of resilience. Resilience means the capacity to recover from setbacks. The setback can be a broken relationship, a broken dream, a financial crisis, loss of loved one, loss of enterprise or loss
October 24, 2023
In the book I’ve written entitled, “The Purpose of our Life is to Become a Saint”, I listed down the things that makes us truly happy and they are healthy relationships, personal growth, practice of the virtues, living a life of purpose, and acquiring the gifts of God’s peace and
October 19, 2023
This is a reflection on the parable of the Unmerciful Servant by a saint of deep interior life in the person of St. John Chrysostom. This parable follows directly the question raised by Peter to Jesus on how many times should we forgive our neighbor when that neighbor sins against
October 17, 2023
This is another good book “The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals” with a different take on how to accomplish goals especially for leaders and managers authored by three management specialists, Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, and Jim Huling. These guys have surveyed over 200,000 leaders around the
October 12, 2023
St. Thomas Aquinas says that the principal intention of human laws or civil laws is to create friendship between humans. Respect for private property for example as a law (e.g., land titles) would help avoid quarrels or disputes between two persons and lead them to develop friendship. The purpose of
October 10, 2023