‘Where he’s coming from’
A POPULAR consideration that many
people nowadays make when they try to understand someone who has a different
view from theirs is to try to figure...
God and truthfulness
ONCE again we need to reiterate this
basic truth. We can never be truthful unless we refer things to God. In fact,
what would really assure...
Be determined to pray always
YES, we need to pray without ceasing, as
St. Paul told us in his First Letter to the Thessalonians. (5, 16) To keep our
spiritual life...
Fear the cross no more
WE HAVE to learn to lose any fear of
the cross. That instinct of ours to be afraid and to flee from the cross has...
No spirituality has it all
THAT’S right. No spirituality has the
exclusive right to Christianity. No spirituality can claim to be the only way
to holiness. No matter how effective and...
Life’s unavoidable dirt
WE CANNOT deny that no matter how much
we try to keep ourselves clean, not only physically but also morally and
spiritually, we cannot avoid the...
Faith and ideology
WE have to learn to distinguish the faith
from the many human ideologies that can be inspired by faith. First of all,
faith is a supernatural...
Who defines orthodoxy?
THE QUICK answer is the Holy Spirit.
It is God, of course, who is the source and end of everything.
But insofar as orthodoxy is a
humanly-mediated...
Not to condemn but to save
ST. John in his gospel made it clear
what God’s attitude is toward us. “God did not send his Son into the world to
condemn the...
Daily nurturing our love
GIVEN our human condition, marked as
it is with many ups and downs, we need to see to it that our love continues to
burn regardless...