THIS should be our constant concern. And to pursue it, we should try our best to be truly “alter Christus.” We have to identify ourselves with Christ in everything—in spirit, in thoughts, intentions and desires, in words and deeds. In other words, we have to develop a certain unity of life
May 2, 2022
THE gospel of the 3rd Sunday of Easter, Year C, (cfr. Jn 21,1-19) reminds us that like the youthful apostle John, we have to rightly recognize Christ who is the personification of love that is the key to fidelity as told by Christ to Peter. It’s a gospel that also somehow
April 30, 2022
“JESUS said to Philip, ‘Where can we buy enough food for them to eat?’ He said this to test Philip, because he himself knew what he was going to do.” (Jn 6,5-6) With these words, we should realize that we should never doubt God’s constant love for us, especially when we
April 29, 2022
“FOR the one whom God sent speaks the words of God.” (Jn 3,34) With these words of Christ, we are made to understand that Christ is the word of God who would lead us to eternal life. The immediate conclusion that we can derive from these words is that we should
April 28, 2022
“GOD so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life.” (Jn 3,16) We should make these words of Christ reverberate always in our mind and heart. No matter what happens in our life, we should
April 27, 2022
“YOU must be born from above.” (Jn 3,7) That’s what Christ told Nicodemus who obviously was astounded by those words. “How can this happen?” was his instant reply. And so Christ had to explain to him the whole business of the need for us to be born again. This thing about
April 26, 2022
THE feast of St. Mark, the Evangelist, on April 25, reminds us that we have the duty to preach the Good News about Christ to the whole world. Christ said it very clearly: “Go into the whole world and proclaim the Gospel to every creature. Whoever believes and is baptized will
April 25, 2022
“Peace be to you. As the Father hath sent me, I also send you. When he had said this, he breathed on them; and he said to them: Receive ye the Holy Spirit.” (Jn 20,21-22) Though addressed to his apostles, these words can also be addressed to all of us who
April 23, 2022
By Fr. Roy Cimagala “IT is the Lord!” (Jn 21,7) That was the excited reaction of the disciple, who the gospel described as the one Jesus loved, when Christ’s disciples made an abundant catch of fish after being told by Christ, who at first the disciples did not recognize, to cast their nets over the
April 22, 2022
AFTER the two disciples who were on their way to Emmaus recognized Christ at the breaking of bread, they hastily went back to Jerusalem to report what they experienced to the apostles and the others with them. You can just imagine how these people felt when suddenly Christ appeared to them
April 21, 2022
WE should have that kind of conviction. No matter what kind of difficulties we can find ourselves in, we should always remember that God never abandons us. He is always around to help us. We are somehow reminded of this truth of our Christian faith when we read that gospel episode
April 20, 2022
IF we really know who we are and who we are supposed to be, it should be kind of instinctive to us to always look for Christ. After all, Christ is the pattern of our humanity, the savior of our damaged humanity. We are supposed to be like him. We have
April 19, 2022
