The Christian detachment
TO BE consistent to our Christian identity and vocation, we need to live a certain type of detachment that involves a certain self-emptying that...
Adapting all the way
WE ARE somehow reminded of this need of ours to adapt all the way to all kinds of persons and situations in life in...
What faith and obedience can enable us
THAT gospel episode where Christ asked Peter to put out into deep water and lower his nets for a catch shows us that when...
The best condition for us
IN THE gospel, there is a part where Christ went to the house of Peter and cured Peter’s wife, after which many others who...
What faith and obedience can enable us
THAT gospel episode where Christ asked Peter to put out into deep water and lower his nets for a catch shows us that when...
Devil no match for God
WE HAVE to keep in mind this reassuring truth of our faith. Especially these days, when cases of demonic possession seem to be on...
Let’s learn to love the cross
WITH the memorial of the passion of St. John the Baptist, celebrated liturgically on August 29, we are reminded that we should not be...
Blending simplicity and shrewdness
THESE two qualities may look incompatible with each other, but that’s what Christ wants us to have. On the feast of St. Bartholomew, aka...
Consistency amid life’s varied dimensions
“WOE to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You pay tithes of mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier things of...
The battle for purity of intention
WE CANNOT overemphasize the importance of this concern. We have to do our best to see to it that we always have purity of...