Why we can afford to be always confident
WHY? Because Christ is always around and is ever ready to help us in all our needs. Perhaps not always in the way we...
Sharing Christ’s powers
IF CHRIST is the pattern of our humanity, if we truly are meant to be “alter Christus” (another Christ), then we can also conclude...
To know Christ is to know ourselves properly
THE EARLIER we realize this, the better for us. And that’s simply because Christ is the very pattern of our humanity. How he is...
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 lesson from the parable of the 10 virgins
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...
The dividend of our suffering
IN THE Memorial of the Passion of St. John the Baptist, celebrated on August 29, we are reminded of the ideal that we should...
Only with God can we be truly sincere
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...
Straining a gnat while swallowing a camel
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...
Hypocrisy, discretion and our inconsistencies
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...
We should always be guided by faith
THAT is how we should be. Our life does not contend only with the things of nature. It has to contend with spiritual and...