By Fr. Roy Cimagala WE need to realize that each one of us has to make some kind of game plan for his life. And the simple reason is that our life has a purpose to achieve, a goal to attain, and all these can be in different levels and aspects of our life that
June 12, 2021
By Fr. Roy Cimagala WE have to be clear about this point. Our Christian life here on earth will always involve some war, some struggle and effort, some combat. But all of this would be done in peace and for peace. The combination may sound incredible, but that is what Christ is showing and telling
June 11, 2021
By Fr. Roy Cimagala THE close, almost cause-and-effect relationship between chastity and piety should be known, appreciated and pursued as early as possible. It can be as early as at the childhood stage, since as we are told in a Wadsworth poem, “the child is the father of the man”—how a man is in his
June 10, 2021
By Fr. Roy Cimagala WE have to realize more deeply that it is a basic need of ours to pray. If we understand our life to be a life always with God, as our Christian faith tells us, then we need to pray always, because prayer is like the very breathing of our life with
June 9, 2021
By Fr. Roy Cimagala THERE should be no doubt about this. No ifs or buts. Sanctification is and should be our main business in this life, our constant concern all throughout. And that’s simply because at the end of the day, at the end of our life, that is what truly matters. Everything else is
June 8, 2021
By Fr. Roy Cimagala WE may be at the moment enjoying life because we are still young, healthy, vibrant and, yes, beautiful and handsome. But never forget that there will come a time when all these qualities start to ebb away, and we start losing things—our memory, our hair and teeth, our hearing, our sense
June 7, 2021
By Fr. Roy Cimagala THIS is what Christ recommends if we truly want to follow him. “Enter through the narrow gate,” he said. “For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life,
June 5, 2021
By Fr. Roy Cimagala CHRISTIAN life can be described in many and even endless ways. It is so rich and so mysterious that we can never capture its essence just with one description. Among the many descriptions of Christian life is that it is matter of having an encounter with Christ. Many people, however, ask
June 4, 2021
By Fr. Roy Cimagala WE need to be more aware of our need and duty to develop and, in fact, sharpen our sense of communion among ourselves. It is not a communion that is based on some natural basis alone—biological, affinal, political, social, etc. Rather, it is a communion that is based on the most
June 3, 2021
By Fr. Roy Cimagala Chaplain Center for Industrial Technology and Enterprise (CITE) Talamban, Cebu City Email: roycimagala@gmail.com WE have to be most careful whenever we start doing philosophy and theology. These two sciences are, to me, the most important and crucial ones, because they strive to study and know the ultimate causes of things and
June 2, 2021
By Fr. Roy Cimagala THIS was what Christ promised to give us if we are united to him, like a branch to the vine. “If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love,” he said. “I have told you this
June 1, 2021
By Fr. Roy Cimagala WE have to understand very well this particular aspect or requirement of an authentic Christian life. That’s because, most likely, our first impression of it can be misleading. To be sure, to be ready to leave everything behind does not mean that we should have no concern at all about the
May 31, 2021