By Fr. Roy Cimagala IN life, this is the spirit and attitude we should have. Otherwise, we would easily be overcome by the twists and turns, the drama of life that can come from light to heavy and can be entirely confusing, sweeping us to situations we would not know how to handle.
October 18, 2020
By Fr. Roy Cimagala THAT’S Latin for “not many, but much,” a reference to how our loving and self-giving should be or how our generosity is shown. What it means is that our loving is not so much a matter of quantity as of quality, not so much of what we give as of
October 17, 2020
By Fr. Roy Cimagala TAKING care of our culture may appear to be too much for each one of us to be concerned about. But make no mistake about it. Each one of us definitely has a grave duty to take care of it. Culture may sound too big for each one to care about,
October 16, 2020
By Fr. Roy Cimagala WE have to develop an abiding and burning desire to fulfill the real purpose of our life. We should be clear about this ultimate purpose of ours so we can have the proper sense of direction and focus in our life, and the corresponding urge to fulfill it. Our problem
October 15, 2020
By Fr. Roy Cimagala IT’S good that from time to time we again read about the many miracles Christ performed that are recorded in the gospels if only to be strongly reminded of God’s power that we seem, little by little, to take for granted and ignore today. We always tend to believe
October 13, 2020
By Fr. Roy Cimagala Chaplain Center for Industrial Technology and Enterprise (CITE) Talamban, Cebu City Email: roycimagala@gmail.com MANY people have asked me how true freedom, the one that really comes from God, feels. Of course, what is presumed behind that query is that there are so many ideas about what true freedom is and
October 12, 2020
By Fr. Roy Cimagala WE need to know what our proper rest really is. Nowadays, people have different and even conflicting ideas about what it is. For some it is purely something physical. For others, it is more on the emotional and psychological side. There are those who think that resting is doing what
October 10, 2020
By Fr. Roy Cimagala THAT can easily be surmised from what Christ said in the gospel of St. Matthew. “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 adulterous generation seeks a sign, but no sign
October 9, 2020
By Fr. Roy Cimagala Chaplain Center for Industrial Technology and Enterprise (CITE) Talamban, Cebu City Email: roycimagala@gmail.com WE have to be very wary in our use of the new things. They can be very attractive since they give us a lot of advantages. But we should never forget that we need to also develop
October 8, 2020
By Fr. Roy Cimagala WHEN we truly have God’s love in our heart, no evil, no sin, no matter how grave, ugly and tempting, can scandalize us. With God’s love, we can manage to bear all this without compromising our sense of what is right and wrong. With God’s love, we somehow would become
October 6, 2020
By Fr. Roy Cimagala Chaplain Center for Industrial Technology and Enterprise (CITE) Talamban, Cebu City Email: roycimagala@gmail.com IT’S a question we should ask ourselves from time to time. We just cannot and should not end the day in any which way. There is actually a proper way to do it, and we should be
October 4, 2020
By Fr. Roy Cimagala CHRIST told us this very clearly. “Whoever loses his life for my sake, he is the one who will save it.” (Lk 9,24) We need to make some drastic adjustments in our attitudes and thinking to accommodate this truth of our faith as spoken plainly to us by Christ who
October 3, 2020