Willing to be martyred for Christ
ON THE Memorial of the Passion of the St. John the Baptist, celebrated on August 29, we are reminded that we should be willing...
The challenge of sanctifying our skills
BY FR. ROY CIMAGALA
THAT SERIES of “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites,” (cfr. Mt 23, 13-22) that Christ heaped on some of...
How to know ourselves properly
THAT QUESTION Christ asked his disciples about who did people say he, as the Son of Man, was should also be addressed to each...
Beware of the secret bondage
WE HAVE to be wary of this spiritual and moral anomaly that, sad to say, is a common affliction these days. It can easily...
The Nathanael in us
THE FEAST of St. Bartholomew, Apostle, originally known as Nathanael, offers us hope of also becoming closely related to Christ despite all the defects...
Learn to be contented and thankful
THAT GOSPEL parable about the Kingdom of heaven likened to a landowner who hired laborers for his vineyard at different hours of the day...
Total self-giving needed to enter heaven
CHRIST said it in so many words. “Amen, I say to you, it will be hard for one who is rich to enter the...
The rich-young-man syndrome
WE HAVE to be wary of this syndrome. Many actually are afflicted with it, and worse, a good number do not even realize it....
When faced with a severe test of faith
THAT gospel episode about a Canaanite woman practically pestering Christ to cure her daughter who was tormented by a demon (cfr. Mt 15, 21-28)...
Marriage, divorce and the gender issue
THAT PART of the gospel where Christ was asked about marriage and divorce and that also talked a little about man being created man...