Celebrating holiness and praying for the dead
IT’S good that in our country we have this very popular tradition called “undas” when families go to cemeteries to visit, clean and decorate graves of...
Fr. Roy CimagalaNovember 1, 20253 min
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IT’S good that in our country we have this very popular tradition called “undas” when families go to cemeteries to visit, clean and decorate graves of...
PERHAPS that’s what we can learn from the readings of Friday of the 30th Week in Ordinary Time. (cfr. Rom 9,1-5; Lk 14,1-6) There we can see how St. P...
THAT’S simply because things would just get worse if we behave otherwise. In our life, we should expect these things to happen to us. It’s part of our...
TO get to the point without beating around the bush, the only way we can truly be sincere with everyone and with everything is when we are with God wh...
THIS is the ideal we should pursue in our self-giving, first to God and then to everybody else. If we truly love God and everybody else, with a love t...
UNLESS our human laws can capture the logic behind that divine commandment to love one another as Christ has loved us and continues to love us, even t...
THAT’S what we can get from the parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector. (cfr. Lk 18,9-14) Especially before God, we never have any reason to br...
WITH the super rapid pace of developments these days, we really need to learn how to read the signs of the times so that we would not get confused and...
FOR those giving spiritual accompaniment to others—most especially priests and even lay persons who are dedicating themselves to this delicate and imp...