Teamwork is not easy because everyone in the team has to do their part. If one member messes up his assigned task it will bring down the entire team. A team is much like a chain, it is only as strong as its weakest link. That would mean that your
January 26, 2023
Almsgiving is not just confined to giving money to the needy or to the Church but to “relieve others of their need both material and spiritual” as St. Thomas Aquinas would define it. The Church lists down 14 alms deeds or works of mercy and here’s what the Catechism of
January 25, 2023
Although the title of the book says, “A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)” this book by Barbara Oakley, a math flunker in her early years, is more about learning how to learn so that whatever is the subject matter you
January 19, 2023
In the book of Evan Carmichael, “Your One Word”, he proposes the idea of coming up with a one word that describes yourself and your passion. Evan Carmichael himself came up with a one word about himself and his company as “Believe”. Evan is a business start-up adviser and he
January 17, 2023
Where will we live after death? Won’t we miss earth and live in heaven forever? It is written in Revelations 21:1, “I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea.” St. Thomas
January 12, 2023
We use to believe in Santa Claus when we were kids. Why don’t we continue believing in him? Doesn’t he make us good and happy? Well, because he is not true. We can only be happy if something is true. And we should not be afraid of anything if it’s not
January 10, 2023
Emmanuel Kant, a modern philosopher claims that all religion is basically ethics. According to him the purpose of religion is to fundamentally make us into a decent and good person i.e., law abiding, respectful of others, etc. In other words, we don’t need to pray and we also don’t need public
January 6, 2023
I know of a manager of a water pump company in Manila who was such a hard worker or as they say in America a person who, “works his rear off”. The reason why he became a manager was because of his work ethic. But it was also this same
December 31, 2022
Morality is all about the goodness or badness of an act or what is right and wrong in our thoughts, words and deeds. The word morality seems to be a turn-off to most people because it refers to a set of rules or commandments, and rules seem to restrict our
December 30, 2022
In the Book of Kings, one of the famous stories there was when Solomon took over the kingship of Israel from his father David. Solomon was asked by God what he would want from Him. “At Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon during the night in a dream, and God said,
December 27, 2022
The most joyous feast in Christianity is when Jesus Christ was born in Bethlehem two thousand years ago. It is analogous to the D-Day landing in Normandy, France during World War II which was the start of the liberation of the Allied nations from Nazi’s reign. With Christ’s birth, it is
December 24, 2022
The virtue of sobriety is the answer to the vice of gluttony. Gluttony is overeating. It is abusing the pleasure of eating instead of eating as a form of nourishment. We should “eat to live” not “live to eat”. The rule of thumb is when we are already full, we should
December 19, 2022