By: Fr. Roy Cimagala WE always have to defer to God for everything that we say or affirm. Even if we are fully convinced that we are right in affirming something, we have to realize that we cannot be fully right unless we affirm it together with God. God has the final word, and his
November 23, 2019
By: Fr. Roy Cimagala WE need to be more familiar with what are known as ejaculatory prayers, otherwise known also as aspirations. They are short prayers that spring rather quite spontaneously from the heart that is going through the different situations in life—happy, sad, tense, tired, excited, bored, etc. They reflect one’s relation with God
November 21, 2019
By: Fr. Roy Cimagala Email: roycimagala@gmail.com WE need to understand that our Christian faith is first of all God’s gift to us to enable us to have the possibility of sharing the supernatural life of God, of whom we have been created as his image and likeness. That’s how God wants us to be. That
November 19, 2019
By: Fr. Roy Cimagala CASES like this are unfortunately getting plenty. I am referring to those individuals who have succeeded in converting from their colorful past but are still being assailed, almost constantly, by the bad thoughts and images of the past, with matching feelings. Especially in their weak moments, when they are alone and
November 18, 2019
By: Fr. Roy Cimagala INTIMACY is the ideal condition in all our relationships. But we have to be intimate with God first before we can be intimate with everybody and everything else in the proper way. This need for intimacy is, of course, a necessary consequence of being a person and not just a thing.
November 16, 2019
By: Fr. Roy Cimagala WE should never underestimate the power of the vocal prayers. They may sound trite and worn-out after years of simply mechanically praying them, but they actually are the quickest and easiest way we can make use of to put ourselves truly and divinely inspired. And the simple reason is that these
November 15, 2019
By: Fr. Roy Cimagala THERE is, of course, a close relation between our faith and our works. As St. James said in his letter, “show me your faith apart from your works, and I by my works will show you my faith.” (2,18) He said earlier that faith by itself, if it has no works,
November 14, 2019
By: Fr. Roy Cimagala “VOS estis lux mundi.” That’s Latin for “You are the light of the world,” words addressed by Christ to his disciples, telling them how they ought to be. (cfr. Mt 5,14 ) Pope Francis used these words as the title to his Motu Proprio Apostolic Letter that deals with how the
November 13, 2019
By: Fr. Roy Cimagala THE quick and short answer to that question is because we are not with God, from whom all good things come. We prefer to be on our own, even to make ourselves our own God. Of course, separated from God, from whom, to repeat, all good things come, the only thing
November 12, 2019
By: Fr. Roy Cimagala WE should be experts in discerning the spirit that animates us. Our life principle is our soul which is spiritual. As such, we need to know the kind of spirit that animates our soul that in turn animates our whole life. We have to realize that there are many kinds of
November 11, 2019
By: Fr. Roy Cimagala WE have to give due attention—and care—to our sense of consciousness. We should not just allow it to flow in any way. We need to direct it, we need to shape it, we need to fill it with something that should be appropriate to us as persons and as children of
November 9, 2019
By: Fr. Roy Cimagala IF we truly want to be genuine friends and brothers and sisters to everybody else, we need to practice empathy first. Hopefully, that gesture will elicit a corresponding similar response of the others toward us, and so we can enter into the world of intersubjectivity which is what loving is all
November 8, 2019