THAT’S what Christ told someone who asked him to settle the inheritance issue that person had with his brother. (cfr. Lk 12,13-21) A very common phenomenon these days, sad to say. Siblings can go into bitter quarrels and complicated litigations just because of the inheritance question. Christ responded by saying that
October 17, 2022
WE have to understand that prayer is not an optional element in our life. It is something essential and indispensable. We are meant to pray always, making prayer like the very breathing and heartbeat of our spiritual life. This truth of our faith is clearly articulated by Christ himself when he
October 15, 2022
CHRIST has warned us about the futility of hypocrisy. At one point, he said, “There is nothing concealed that will not be revealed, nor secret that will not be known. Therefore, whatever you have said in the darkness will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered behind closed
October 14, 2022
THAT stinging rebuke Christ made on some leading Jews of his time (cfr. Lk 11,47-54) reminds us that we actually are all sinners no matter how much we profess to be good persons and even holy ones. “Woe to you who build the memorials of the prophets whom your fathers killed,”
October 13, 2022
THIS is a big challenge for us. We are always prone to fall into inconsistency and disunity in our life, and thus into all forms of hypocrisy, deception, formalisms, legalisms, etc. that try to show goodness without the proper substance. In the gospel, Christ lamented about this predicament of ours. To
October 12, 2022
“Oh you Pharisees! Although you cleanse the outside of the cup and the dish, inside you are filled with plunder and evil.” (Lk 11,39) This is the typical reaction of Christ toward the rigid rules of the Pharisees, who make a big issue out of little things while ignoring the bigger
October 11, 2022
IN the gospel, there is a part where Christ lamented about the lack of faith of the people. “This generation is an evil generation,” he said. “It seeks a sign, but no sign will be given it, except the sign of Jonah.” (Lk 11,29) We need to understand that faith is
October 10, 2022
THAT gospel episode about 10 lepers who begged Christ to cure them teaches us the lesson that we should always go to God especially when we find ourselves in difficulties. It also reminds us that we should always be thankful to him because he always cares for us. (cfr. Lk 17,11-19)
October 8, 2022
CHRIST said it very clear, in no unclear terms. “Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.” (Lk 11,23) There’s no ifs and buts about this ideal that is meant for us. We have to realize very deeply that we need to be
October 7, 2022
YES, there is such thing as the art of holy insistence. This was shown, for example, in that story Christ told his disciples about someone who went to his friend-store-owner in the middle of the night asking for bread because a friend of his just arrived and was hungry. He was
October 6, 2022
THIS is what we should aspire for. This is what we are meant to be. Unless we become contemplative souls, there’s no way we can be with God who is everything to us. Without him, we can only be at best a joke, no matter how impressive our life and work
October 5, 2022
WE should do our best to overcome the usual tendency of ours to fall into some form of dichotomy, dividing our life mainly into 2 parts—one for prayer, our relation with God, and another for work, our involvement in the things of the world or our temporal affairs. We only have
October 4, 2022
