Lavish or austere?
IN OUR liturgical celebrations, we can either be lavish or austere depending on the circumstances. What is important is what is in our heart...
Reason to rejoice
EVERY FOURTH Sunday of Lent is usually dubbed as āLaetare Sundayā for the simple reason that its Entrance Antiphon starts with this passage from...
God begs us to return to him
IMAGINE that! The giver of all good things, who is already all perfect and from whom nothing would be lost if we would not...
Letās learn to listen to Godās voice
THIS IS definitely a necessity for us. We have to learn to listen to the voice of God who actually intervenes in our life...
Beware of the danger of worldly entrapment
THIS WORLDLY entrapment is actually a clear and present danger. But the intriguing part is that hardly anyone is aware of it. Many of...
Godās mercy is stronger than our sinfulness
THE READINGS of the Mass for Tuesday of the 3rd Week of Lent, (Daniel 3, 25.34-43; Mt 18, 21-35) which this year falls on...
Faith should always guide our reason
THAT BIBLE story about that Syrian general, Naaman, who was a leper, (2 Kings 5, 1-15) and the gospel reading about Christ reproaching the...
Toughness needed to face lifeās challenges
THATāS what the readings of the 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B, reminds us of. From the Book of Job, we are already...
Compassion all the way
THE FEAST of the Presentation of the Lord, celebrated on February 2, offers that precious lesson about humility, a fundamental virtue that engenders and...
Sanctity and apostolate
THEY ARE supposed to go together always. The universal call to holiness is also a call to do apostolate. Said in another way, to...