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Is it wrong to eat, drink and clothe ourselves too much?
Undue anxieties, worries and preoccupations with material necessities will weigh us down and enslave us
Publish date: 2017 - 2 - 26
Let our feet make us true messengers of God
Unlike John the Baptist, Jesus' message brought light and hope for both sinners and pagans
Publish date: 2017 - 1 - 22
How many of us realize that the resurrection from the dead is at the heart of our Christian faith?
Christ's own resurrection and the belief of the resurrection from the dead are like directional arrows which point us to our target: the heavenly home where eternal life begins.
Publish date: 2016 - 11 - 6
Every changed heart is a proof of God’s answer of our prayers.
True prayers bring us closer to God for the heart of the one who prays will be changed. When our desires are aligned with God's, then our prayers are answered according to His will.
Publish date: 2016 - 10 - 23
Does God delight in humiliating us? Does God deal with us as His slaves?
Once we put on the proper attitude, we will see that God has a high regard for us in spite of our lowliness
Publish date: 2016 - 10 - 2
Who Deserves Our Complete and Unconditional Surrender?
The requirement to renounce, to break ties with, to abandon everything has its justification only in relation to Jesus.
Publish date: 2016 - 9 - 4
Who can be saved?
Though God's salvation is for all peoples, it requires our own conscious effort to receive it
Publish date: 2016 - 8 - 21
The Lord’s Prayer is a tremendous gift
Daring to call God “Father”, we are challenged to know what we pray, believe what we pray and live what we pray
Publish date: 2016 - 7 - 24
Are we willing and ready to take up the mission?
The mission of the Church has not changed. It was the same message that Jesus and His disciples spoke -- the message of the Kingdom of God.
Publish date: 2016 - 7 - 3
Who is Jesus to us?
Not until we find the right answer, the messages will continue be the “stumbling block” and the “foolishness” to us.
Publish date: 2016 - 6 - 19
Is the mystery of the Trinity important to our salvation?
As Christians, we should not only live in this mystery but also live up to it.
Publish date: 2016 - 5 - 22
True love for God is expressed through obedience to His will.
Jesus is the one who truly loves God by perfectly obeying His will. In keeping Jesus’ word, we reflect Him not only in obedience but also in our love for God.
Publish date: 2016 - 5 - 1
The mystery of the Resurrection cannot be understood by the intellect or empirically explained.
“Since we ourselves have no experience of such a renewed and transformed……….kind of life”, it is only with and through faith that we can come to accept the reality of this unthinkable event.
Publish date: 2016 - 4 - 10
What would happen if the story of our Lord’s Passion were a reality show?
The story of our Lord’s Passion, no matter how “real” and great it is, may not escape the fate of momentary remembrance and desensitization over time.
Publish date: 2016 - 3 - 20
Why do bad things happen to good people? Why do things happen seemingly at random without cause?
Encountering the reality of suffering enables us to realize that God, who took upon Himself our sins and suffered for us, loves us in a way that surpasses all human understanding
Publish date: 2016 - 2 - 28
Duc in altum “Put out into the deep for a catch”
Little did Peter know that his obedience had brought in its first catch, “they left everything and followed Him” (Lk 5:11). Neither too could he and his companions imagine two thousand years later, the story of their catch continues to inspire the missionary life of the Church.
Publish date: 2016 - 2 - 7
Was “John’s baptism” relevant to Christian baptism?
As a precursor, John had gone before Christ by birth and his preaching echoed that of His (Mt 4:17; Mk 1:15). So his baptism was also meant to be a foreshadowing of the new birth (Jn 3:5-7) brought about by the actual Sacrament which Jesus later established.
Publish date: 2016 - 1 - 10
Jesus’ Sonship was a controversy in his lifetime, this controversy still lingers on after two millennia have passed
Is he a prophet, a miracle worker, a teacher, a very good man or the Son of God?
Publish date: 2015 - 12 - 27
My prophetic role as a baptized Christian calls me to begin first with my own repentance and reformation.
Only until then, when I have straightened my own crooked paths and smoothened my own bumpy ways, would I be ready to say as Isaiah said, “Here am I, send me!” (Is 6:8) and become the true herald of God when He so chooses.
Publish date: 2015 - 12 - 6
Generosity that was once shown will eventually come back to bless the giver
God values a heart that is filled with gratitude and thanksgiving, a heart that gives generously and ungrudgingly, a heart that is humble and meek and most of all, a heart that truly loves Him.
Publish date: 2015 - 11 - 8
When, in our lives, does Jesus pass by?
Jesus "stood still" when attending Bartimaeous' cry. He will do the same for us when our cries are earnest and persistent, when our requests are humble and honest and most of all, when our faith in Him is strong and unwavering.
Publish date: 2015 - 10 - 25
“The covenant between the spouses is integrated into God’s covenant with man”
While various forms of marriage exist in different cultures and societies, the fundamental truth and characteristics of marriage are common and universal
Publish date: 2015 - 10 - 4
When we are spiritually crippled, we are more seriously in danger of losing our salvation than when we are physically handicapped
Prophesied by Isaiah, the oracle (First Reading) described the time when Israel would be delivered from its oppressors (Assyria and Babylon) but it was also pointing to the anticipated time of the coming Messiah. Jesus claimed the prophecy to Himself when He answered the question of the disciples of John the Baptist (Mt 11:4-5; Lk 7:22). Yet this prophecy extends even further for it also foreshadows His second glorious coming with the new heaven and new earth.
Publish date: 2015 - 9 - 6
