By Fr. Roy Cimagala WHEN Christ asked Peter about who should earthly kings require census tax, from the subjects or from the foreigners, obviously the answer which Peter gave was from foreigners. Christ was somehow insinuating that being the son of God, he should be exempted from that tax. But no. He also paid the
August 9, 2021
By Fr. Roy Cimagala WE know that for miracles and some extraordinary divine interventions to take place for our very difficult if not impossible situations we can encounter in our life, we need to have a strong faith. This is validated many times in the gospel where Christ would only respond to those requests that
August 7, 2021
By Fr. Roy Cimagala THE feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord (cfr. Mk 9,2-10) should make us understand that like Christ we too are meant to be transfigured to the supernatural life with God. That is what God wants for us. For that end, God has given us everything, Christ himself, so we can
August 6, 2021
By Fr. Roy Cimagala IT’S very interesting to note that after Christ was rightly identified by Peter to be the son of the living God, and after Christ made Peter the rock on which the invincible Church would be founded, Christ proceeded to talk about his impending passion and death on the cross. (cfr. Mt
August 5, 2021
By Fr. Roy Cimagala THAT beautiful story of the Canaanite woman who importuned and practically nagged Christ for the favor of driving a demon that tormented her daughter (cfr. Mt 15,21-28) teaches us the great lesson to ever strengthen our faith especially when we are faced with difficulties and challenges that look impossible to handle.
August 4, 2021
By Fr. Roy Cimagala “After he dismissed the crowds, he went up on the mountain by himself to pray.” (Mt 14,23) Let’s take note of how Christ himself always gave priority to prayer, despite the hectic schedule he had to follow during his preaching trips. He found not only time for it, but also the
August 3, 2021
By Fr. Roy Cimagala “AND they came to Capernaum looking for Jesus.” (Jn 6,24) The gospel talks about how the people were so impressed with what they saw and heard from Christ that they were always looking for him. It seemed like they couldn’t help but be attracted to him. This episode points to a
August 2, 2021
By Fr. Roy Cimagala WHEN Christ in that parable of the wheat and the weeds (cfr. Mt 13,24-43) advised that it would be better not to uproot the weeds at the moment since doing so may also uproot the wheat, we are practically told that we have to be realistic about our earthly condition where
July 31, 2021
By Fr. Roy Cimagala “A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country.” This is Christ’s indictment against the people of his own place who, instead of being amazed and thankful for having among them not only a very special person but the very son of God, found Christ too much for them,
July 30, 2021
By Fr. Roy Cimagala THAT beautiful story of the sisters, Martha and Mary, welcoming Christ into their house (cfr. Lk 10,38-42) teaches us a precious lesson about how prayer and piety should take precedence over any consideration of practicality, no matter how legitimate and praiseworthy such consideration is. Such precedence would indicate the proper way
July 29, 2021
By Fr. Roy Cimagala “The Kingdom of heaven is like a treasure buried in a field, which a person finds and hides again, and out of joy goes and sells all that he has and buys that field. Again, the Kingdom of heaven is like a merchant searching for fine pearls. When he finds a
July 28, 2021
By Fr. Roy Cimagala WHEN Christ explained to his disciples the meaning of the parable about the wheat and the weeds (cfr. Mt 13,24-43), he practically told them to practice restraint in their reactions to all forms of evil in this world while at the same time developing the virtue of hope that would enable
July 27, 2021