YES, we really need to be most careful with our judgments, since it is very easy for us to fall into rash judgments. Given our personal weaknesses and the conditions around, that tendency to make rash judgments is always there. We need to be wary of it and do whatever we
June 26, 2023
CHRIST exhorts us to be so. “So do not be afraid of them,” he said. “Everything now covered up will be uncovered, and everything now hidden will be made clear. What I say to you in the dark, tell in the daylight; what you hear in whispers, proclaim from the housetops.
June 24, 2023
“DO not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and decay destroy, and thieves break in and steal. But store up treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor decay destroys, nor thieves break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there also will your heart be.” (Mt 6,19-21)
June 23, 2023
CHRIST told us how to pray properly. “In praying, do not babble like the pagans, who think that they will be heard because of their many words,” he said. “Do not be like them. Your Father knows what you need before you ask him.” (Mt 6,7-8) In other words, we have
June 22, 2023
IN all our moral acts which are done knowingly and freely, we should have the proper intention. That’s because our intention plays a crucial role in our life. It is where we decide whether we would like to be with God or simply with our own selves, to glorify God, love
June 21, 2023
WE have to know what pure love is since we are called to it. Christ described it in this way: “You have heard that it was said, you shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy. But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
June 20, 2023
WE have to be ready to make the proper reaction when we are confronted with evil in any form. We cannot deny that in our life, we cannot avoid some evil. It’s a fact of life that we should learn how to deal with properly. And the way to do it
June 19, 2023
IF we truly want to be consistent with our Christian identity, then we should feel the urge to respond positively and eagerly to what Christ once told his disciples, “The harvest is rich but the laborers are few, so ask the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers to his
June 17, 2023
By Fr. Roy Cimagala ON the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, we are reminded in the gospel reading of the day that we should go to Christ since he is the one who will bear all our burdens and who will give us rest. (cfr. Mt 11,25-30) We should never forget this
June 16, 2023
THAT’S how love is. It is given gratuitously, without cost and calculation. Besides, it is given with utmost generosity. It just gives and gives until it hurts! With this love, we are sure that we would be having the very righteousness of Christ which is actually meant for us, image and
June 15, 2023
LET’S be clear about this. We may sound fanatical, narrow-minded or extremely biased to some people, but we just have to bring it up in the open to show the objective basis of such claim. Christ is the be-all and end-all of all our laws. That’s because he himself said so.
June 14, 2023
WHY? Because, first of all, Christ told us so. “You are the salt of the earth…You are the light of the world,” he clearly told his disciples and eventually all of us. (cfr. Mt 5,13-14) But more than just being told by Christ, the basis of such divine command is because
June 13, 2023
