By Fr. Roy Cimagala IMPOSSIBLE? Think again. It’s Christ who says it in so many words. “The Kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed…The Kingdom of heaven is like a yeast…” (cfr. Mt 13,31-35) We need to reconcile ourselves with this happy truth of our faith that we do not have to wait for
July 26, 2021
By Fr. Roy Cimagala THAT parable about the wheat and the weed, the good seed and the bad seed (cfr. Mt 13,24-30) provides us with a precious lesson that is most useful and relevant especially for our present times. We cannot overemphasize the fact that in this world, especially nowadays, good and evil can be
July 24, 2021
By Fr. Roy Cimagala “The seed sown on rich soil is the one who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and yields a hundred or sixty or thirtyfold.” (Mt 13,23) With these words of Christ, many things can come to mind. First, like Christ we should be generous in sowing the
July 23, 2021
By Fr. Roy Cimagala WE cannot deny we are all sinners. But neither should we deny that we are all called to become saints. That’s because we are all children of God, made in his image and likeness. As Christ himself said, “Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.” (Mt 5,48) And St. Peter,
July 22, 2021
By Fr. Roy Cimagala “SOME seed fell on rich soil, and produced fruit, a hundred or sixty or thirtyfold.” (Mt 13,8) With these words, Christ is telling us to be that rich soil that would faithfully and gratefully receive God’s word, and to make it so inspire us as to drive us into a most
July 21, 2021
By Fr. Roy Cimagala CHRIST spelled it out to us very clearly about how we can be part of the family of God. “Whoever does the will of my heavenly Father is my brother, and sister, and mother.” (Mt 12,50) And the first one who had this qualification is none other than Our Lady who
July 20, 2021
By Fr. Roy Cimagala “Some of the scribes and Pharisees said to Jesus, ‘Teacher, we wish to see a sign from you.’ He said to them in reply, ‘An evil and unfaithful generation seeks a sign, but no sign will be given it except the sign of Jonah the prophet…’” (Mt 12,38-39) If there is
July 19, 2021
By Fr. Roy Cimagala WE need to imitate Christ’s trait that combines both tenderness and toughness. His tenderness can be shown when this passage from Scripture is applied to him: “A bruised reed he will not break, and a smouldering wick he will not snuff out, till he has brought justice through to victory.” (Mt
July 17, 2021
By Fr. Roy Cimagala MAKE no mistake about it. Our human laws are meant to lead us to our ultimate goal which is none other than to be with God, to be holy as God is holy, etc. Irrespective of their immediate temporal purpose, our laws should lead us little by little to become God’s
July 16, 2021
By Fr. Roy Cimagala THERE should be no doubt as to who gives us our proper rest, or what our true rest really is, etc. Christ said it very clearly. There are, of course, different ways and kinds of rest. But we should try to have a really good one that is fit to our
July 15, 2021
By Fr. Roy Cimagala Chaplain Center for Industrial Technology and Enterprise (CITE) Talamban, Cebu City IF we want to be with God always and to know the fine points of his mysterious will and ways, we need to be always simple and childlike. Christ may have told us also to be clever and shrewd like
July 14, 2021
By Fr. Roy Cimagala LET’S be frank about ourselves. We are all sinners! No matter how much we try to be good and holy—and to a certain extent, we can actually manage to achieve that ideal to some degree—we can still find ourselves falling into sin, if not big ones, then small ones, which can
July 13, 2021