By Fr. Roy Cimagala This Solemnity is not only an occasion to celebrate the success stories of holiness of those who are already in heaven, and are recognized and canonized by the Church as saints. It is also a strong reminder that all of us are called to holiness. And the way to holiness is
October 30, 2021
By Fr. Roy Cimagala WE should very well know, by now, what God’s greatest commandment is for us. We have to be clear about what God wants us to be and to do in this life, and this is none other than to love God with everything we have and to love our neighbor as
October 30, 2021
By Fr. Roy Cimagala WE cannot deny that all of us can have some doubts about who Christ is and what he is to us. These days in the world in general, we can see strong evidence of a culture of skepticism, agnosticism, religious indifferentism, if not, outright atheism. This should come as no surprise
October 29, 2021
By Fr. Roy Cimagala “Jesus went up to the mountain to pray, and he spent the night in prayer to God.” (Lk 6,12) What a tremendous fact in the life of Christ for us to consider! We should be edified by that example. Christ is God and therefore has no need to pray. Yet he
October 28, 2021
By Fr. Roy Cimagala CHRIST said it very clearly. We have to enter by the narrow gate if we want to survive the trials and challenges of our earthly life and arrive at our proper eternal home. (cfr. Lk 13,22-30) We cannot deny that we are prone to fall into presumption. Of course, we can
October 27, 2021
By Fr. Roy Cimagala IN the gospel, the Kingdom of God is often compared to the little things. Christ said that the Kingdom is like “a mustard seed that a man took and planted in the garden. When it was fully grown, it became a large bush…” Again, he said that the Kingdom is like
October 26, 2021
By Fr. Roy Cimagala WHEN Christ cured on a Sabbath a woman who had been crippled by an evil spirit for eighteen years, he was corrected by the synagogue leader for violating the law on the Sabbath. (cfr. Lk 13,10-17) That was when Christ made the following clarification: “Does not each one of you on
October 25, 2021
By Fr. Roy Cimagala THAT gospel character Bartimaeus, the blind man, gives us a precious lesson with respect to a certain blindness that we all have. Like him, we have to acknowledge our blindness and humbly beg Christ for a cure by repeating Bartimaeus’ words, “Master, I want to see” (ut videam). (Mk 10,51) Though
October 23, 2021
By Fr. Roy Cimagala IN the Gospel, there is a part where Christ laments about people seemingly knowing a lot of things and yet failing to read the signs of the times and, thus, failing to make proper judgments and being unprepared to meet our Creator. (cfr. Lk 12,54-59) “You know how to interpret the
October 22, 2021
By Fr. Roy Cimagala IT’S true! Where there is love, there is also some kind of forcefulness, an abiding state of being driven despite the variations of our bodily and other earthly conditions. Where there is love, we can only echo what Christ himself said: “I have come to set the earth on fire, and
October 21, 2021
By Fr. Roy Cimagala WE should be profoundly aware of our accountability of our stewardship of the many things God has given us. We have to do everything to keep that awareness active and functional, supported by the appropriate means that first of all are spiritual in nature before they are material. We are reminded
October 20, 2021
By Fr. Roy Cimagala “BE like servants who await their master’s return from a wedding, ready to open immediately when he comes and knocks.” (Lk 12,36) With these words, it is quite clear that we need to be always ready for our meeting with our Creator who can actually call us anytime. We came from
October 19, 2021