There is a saying that life is a journey and in this journey certainly there is something we are looking for. In an article on the top 10 things people are looking for, the results were: As we continue to welcome the new year, let us ask ourselves, “What are you looking for?” This was…
Category: Humility & Selflessness
Mission
In 2002 a book entitled The Purpose Driven Life became a bestseller. Authored by Pastor Rick Warren, the message is simple but very profound and important. First, each life is important. Second, the time, talent, and treasure that we have is not an accident. There is a reason behind it. Third, each life has a…
Works of God
Every now and then, I get blessed with a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Of course, we come across different tour guides with different perspectives, specializations, and points of view. One of the things they would always talk about is the Six-Day War in Israel which happened during June 5 – 10, 1967. Although Israel…
Praising God
We typically look at life based on two things: good luck and bad luck. That is why in these year-end celebrations, although we are Catholics, superstitious practices are an insult to God because it suggests we do not trust him. Many Catholics would still do it and say that it won’t hurt. We just want…
Do They Know It’s Christmas Time?
In the US, there was a survey made by Gallup Poll that says in 2021, only 81 percent of Americans believed in God. The survey started way back in 1944. Up to the 1960s, 98 percent believed in God. Up to 2011, it was 92 percent believed. Up to last year, 17 percent do not…
Ponder
Typically we look at life based only on two things: good luck and bad luck. That is why as we celebrate the Christmas season and prepare for the new year, we have all these superstitious practices. Even if we know they are offensive to the Lord, we do it just to bring good luck. However,…
God’s Mysterious Ways
Matthew 11:2-11 One of the hardest of most human activities is to wait. All of us are waiting for something or someone in life: We are all waiting. In the Gospel of Matthew, John was waiting for Jesus. Yet, because God’s ways are not man’s ways, he sent his disciples to ask Jesus, “Are you…
Burden Free
Matthew 11:28-30 How many of us, from time to time, complain that we are tired of life already? Never-ending problems, always in debt, a sickness that won’t get healed, a loved one who has gone astray, a broken relationship, nothing is happening to a person we are helping, too many battles in life, or maybe…
Immaculate Conception
It is the desire of God that we human beings share his happiness. However, in paradise man and woman ate the forbidden tree, and original sin entered into our lives thus sending man and woman out of paradise. Yet, it is the desire of God that we human beings share his happiness and that is…
Looks
Matthew 3:1-6 We have a saying, “Do not judge the book by its cover.” Why? Typically, people judge people by their looks. In one of the more known Gospel stories regarding visual judgment, Jesus talks about people who got shocked by the appearance of John the Baptist. He was wearing camel’s hair and eating wild…
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