When faced with our limitations
THAT gospel story about the blind man, Bartimaeus, (cfr. Mk 10, 46-52) should remind us that we should immediately go to God and follow...
With Christ, our sufferings assume a redemptive value
WE HAVE to be ready when we are made to suffer in one way or another. And that can only mean that we assume...
Christ gives us the best deal
“JESUS said to them, ‘I tell you that anyone who leaves home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields...
Our true wealth
WE SHOULD be clear about what our true wealth is. It definitely is not anything that comes from the world—money, fame, power, etc. Our...
We should channel God’s Trinitarian life in our lives
WITH THE celebration of the Solemnity of the Blessed Trinity, what we are reminded of is the truth of our faith that we too...
The radicality of Christian love
IF WE truly identify ourselves with Christ, as we should, then we have to realize that we have to love God and everybody else...
The integral should give way to the essential
THIS WAS clearly expounded by Christ himself when he said, “If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for...
Unity amid our differences, diversity, conflicts
“WHOEVER is not against us is for us.” (Mk 9, 40) Words of Christ in response to his disciples who said, “Teacher, we saw...
Let’s enter into the wisdom of the cross
THE GOSPEL reading of the Mass on Tuesday of the 7th Week in Ordinary Time (Mk 9, 30-37) reminds us that true wisdom, given...
Christ gives his mother to be our mother too
IN THE GOSPEL reading of the Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church, (Jn 19, 25-34) we see how Christ entrusts...