By Fr. Roy Cimagala I SUPPOSE everyone wants to have friends. It’s kind of difficult to imagine a person who does not like to have friends, since we, in general, are wired to be always in relation with others, and that relation, which can take many forms, is basically achieved through friendship. There is an
November 7, 2020
By Fr. Roy Cimagala THIS is something we have to be most discerning and careful about. We have to realize that there is such thing as an apparent good, which actually is not good but can look and smell like it is. We should do our best that we go always for the authentic
November 6, 2020
By Fr. Roy Cimagala TO go directly to the point, we can only find our true strength in Christ. There’s no other—no, not in some drugs, therapy, physical stamina, genes, etc. These things only give, at best, some temporary relief. They don’t last for long, and they don’t work all the time. This was
November 5, 2020
By Fr. Roy Cimagala THIS is the challenge we all have to face if we truly want to follow Christ. We have to try our best to know how to blend the inclusivity of charity and the exclusivity of truth. We know that charity has a universal coverage, such that we are even commanded
October 31, 2020
By Fr. Roy Cimagala WE have to learn to live with this basic fact of life. No matter how much we try to make our life and the world in general as perfect as possible, we can never achieve it. We just have to contend with the reality that we will be living till
October 30, 2020
By Fr. Roy Cimagala THIS is about people who are close to us but who can betray us, much like what Judas Iscariot did to Christ. Imagine, Judas was already one of the apostles, so close to Christ that he must have directly experienced the goodness of Christ. And yet he managed to betray
October 29, 2020
By Fr. Roy Cimagala WE have to be familiar with these two terms that refer to two conditions or states that can characterize our life. One is good which we should try to assume, while the other is bad which, of course, we should avoid at all costs. To be an empty suit is
October 27, 2020
By Fr. Roy Cimagala Email: roycimagala@gmail.com WHAT a day it was! Still quite early in the morning, I already received several calls from friends and acquaintances asking for urgent clarifications about what they heard from the Pope. Apparently, from what they read in some news outlets, the Pope is now changing Church teaching
October 26, 2020
By Fr. Roy Cimagala WE have to remind ourselves strongly about this fundamental truth about ourselves. That’s because we are practically forgetting it and are increasingly suffering the dire consequences. We have to live under God’s providence, understanding first of all what providence is. Many of us are ignorant of this basic truth, even
October 24, 2020
By Fr. Roy Cimagala WE have to be clear about this very heartwarming truth of our faith. God is always willing to forgive us no matter how grave our sins are. He always offers forgiveness to us and it is all up to us to take that offer. We should never be afraid to
October 23, 2020
By Fr. Roy Cimagala SUCH is life as we go through different circumstances and situations, the twists and turns in life. And now that we are in this pandemic mode, we are talking about a new or next normal where many of the usual things we used to have and do, have changed or
October 22, 2020
By Fr. Roy Cimagala WE have to realize that the proper development of our humanity, let alone, our Christianity, of both our natural self and our spiritual and supernatural self would involve that we look both outside us and inside us. We have to look outward because that is how we trigger the
October 20, 2020