Empathy and intersubjectivity
IF WE TRULY want to be genuine friends
and brothers and sisters to everybody else, we need to practice empathy first.
Hopefully that gesture will elicit...
Expect to get dirty
IF WE have to be practical in this
life, exerting effort to attend and resolve all our issues and challenges, not
to mention, to be truly...
Collaborate, coordinate, interact, etc.
IN ANY social environment where we
always find ourselves, be it the family, school, office, parish, or society in
general, etc., we have to remember three...
A commitment is not a straitjacket
FAR from straitjacketing or
stereotyping us, entering into a commitment would simply show that we are so driven
with love and a deep sense of freedom...
The teleological mind
THE WORD “teleological” may sound
Greek to us at the moment. And it should not surprise us, for true enough it is
of Greek origin. But...
Our best is never enough
IT’S INDEED laudable that in whatever
we do, we try to give it our best shot. We should just remember that our best
will never be...
Watch that tongue!
YES, WE have to be watchful with our
tongue. It many times can be like a loose cannon, spewing all of kinds of
inconsiderate and reckless...
Orchestrating the different gifts
WE know that the Church is both
hierarchical and charismatic in nature. As charismatic, the Church continues to
receive from God through Christ in the Holy...
Reaching out
IF we truly want to follow Christ, we
should always feel the urge and the passion for reaching out to those who are
lost, separated from...
We live in an imperfect world
THIS should be no surprise to us, no
breaking news. We just have to acknowledge this very obvious fact and avoid
falling into two extremes. One...