When we just go through the motions
WE have to be wary of this tendency of ours. We should not just follow rules and practices blindly and would just go through the motions for the sake ...
Fr. Roy CimagalaAugust 31, 20243 min
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WE have to be wary of this tendency of ours. We should not just follow rules and practices blindly and would just go through the motions for the sake ...
IT’S clear that from this parable (cfr. Mt 25,1-13) we are reminded to be always vigilant in our life, having a clear vision of what the real and ulti...
IN the Memorial of the Passion of St. John the Baptist, celebrated on August 29, we are reminded of the ideal that we should not to be afraid of suffe...
WITH Christ lambasting the scribes and Pharisees of his time for their hypocrisy (cfr. Mt 23,27-32), we are somehow reminded that the secret to be tru...
THIS was how Christ described the self-righteous scribes and Pharisees of his time. (cfr. Mt 23,23-26) This was a lamentation of Christ that can still...
WE are precisely reminded of these points in that gospel episode where Christ issued a series of “Woe to you’s” to some people of the time precisely f...
THAT is how we should be. Our life does not contend only with the things of nature. It has to contend with spiritual and supernatural realities that o...
WE can come to that conclusion when we consider what Christ’s answer was when he was asked what the greatest commandment of God was. “You shall love t...
THAT gospel parable about a king who gave a wedding feast for his son (cfr. Mt 22,1-14) reminds us that we should be ready when God calls us to himsel...