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Thursday, June 19, 2025

The Underpinning

Love should inspire our death

WE NEED to examine how our attitude is towards death which is unavoidable in our life here on earth. It’s, of course, a worthwhile exercise...

Preparing people fit for the Lord

THIS was what was said of St. John the Baptist. (cfr. Lk 1, 17) That was why he taught the gospel of repentance and...

Concupiscence

WE HAVE to be familiar with this phenomenon. There’s such a thing as concupiscence which is a certain attraction we have toward evil. No...

Genuine and fake love

WE CAN presume that everything that we do is done in the name of love. We do it because there is something good that...

Sharpening our prudence and detachment

WITH all the explosion of the many attractive, tempting and riveting things we have today, we cannot deny that we really need to sharpen...

Freedom and responsibility

THESE are inseparable twins, like the two sides of a coin. One cannot be without the other. To be truly free, one has to...

Life’s real business

LET’S see to it that we are always aware of life’s real business, the only one thing necessary in life. (cfr Lk 10,42) We...

Entering a new stage in life?

WE HAVE to find ways to help those who are in transition from one level of their education to the next or from their...

Truth has many layers

THERE’S an interesting episode in the gospel that tells us that truth indeed has many layers and we just have to be careful with...

In his element

WE just celebrated the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus recently. There we were reminded of this very moving truth of our faith...