By: Fr. Roy Cimagala YES, we need to pray without ceasing, as St. Paul told us in his First Letter to the Thessalonians. (5,16) To keep our spiritual life alive, to make it survive all trials in life, let alone, to make it work effectively and grow healthily, we need to pray without letup. What
October 22, 2019
By: Fr. Roy Cimagala WE have to learn to lose any fear of the cross. That instinct of ours to be afraid and to flee from the cross has to be reversed, and made into an instinct of love for the cross. This may take time and effort, this may require a lot of thinking
October 19, 2019
By: Fr. Roy Cimagala THAT’S RIGHT. No spirituality has the exclusive right to Christianity. No spirituality can claim to be the only way to holiness. No matter how effective and appropriate to some people, no spirituality can claim a universal coverage of all the faithful in the Church. But, yes, each spirituality can be the
October 18, 2019
By: Fr. Roy Cimagala WE CANNOT deny that no matter how much we try to keep ourselves clean, not only physically but also morally and spiritually, we cannot avoid the dirt that there is always in the world. Some of these dirt today can appear to be so nice that we can feel at home
October 17, 2019
By: Fr. Roy Cimagala ST. JOHN in his gospel made it clear what God’s attitude is toward us. “God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world,” he said, “but that the world might be saved through him.” (3,17) That divine attitude should also be ours toward one another. That’s why
October 16, 2019
By: Fr. Roy Cimagala We have to learn to distinguish the faith from the many human ideologies that can be inspired by faith. First of all, faith is a supernatural gift, while ideology is a system of ideas and ideals that forms the basis of some human behavior. The former is a divine gift, while
October 15, 2019
By: Fr. Roy Cimagala THE quick answer is the Holy Spirit. It is God, of course, who is the source and end of everything. But insofar as orthodoxy is a humanly-mediated affair, it is the official teaching office of the Church, the Magisterium, who has been entrusted the power to define, proclaim and defend the
October 12, 2019
By: Fr. Roy Cimagala ST. John in his gospel made it clear what God’s attitude is toward us. “God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world,” he said, “but that the world might be saved through him.” (3,17) That divine attitude should also be ours toward one another. That’s why
October 10, 2019
By: Fr. Roy Cimagala GIVEN our human condition, marked as it is with many ups and downs, we need to see to it that our love continues to burn regardless of the changing circumstances. We have to nurture it such that at the end of the day we can really say that all our time
October 9, 2019
By: Fr. Roy Cimagala WE need to understand this point very well. Our humanity is not just a matter of biology, the blend of genes that gives us our unique identity. Such basis of our humanity would be no different from that of the other animals whose identity is solely based on the genes that
October 8, 2019
By: Fr. Roy Cimagala YES, we need to know how to flow with the times, adapting ourselves with the new developments and circumstances without losing sight of what is truly essential in our life. That’s the lesson we can learn from what Christ said about new wine to be put always on new wineskins, not
October 5, 2019
By: Fr. Roy Cimagala WE are, of course, encouraged to be very fruitful and productive in our life. There should be no time for laziness and idleness. Even in our periods of rest, we can and should always be productive, since rest is not about doing nothing but rather about doing something different from the
October 3, 2019