I once celebrated Mass in an upscale subdivision. After the Mass, I was speaking to two couples. Since I realized that they did not know each other, I introduced them to each other. Couple A asked Couple B, “What street do you reside on?”. They realized they lived in the same street. Couple B asked…
Category: Love & Kindness
Compassion
Because of technology, news and information get around so swiftly. On one hand, the good, the true and the beautiful. On the other hand, the lies, the deceptive and the fake news. The thing is as human beings, we judge too swiftly and easily. Take for example the story of a policeman who was in…
Convenient Religion
In today’s times, the name of the game is convenience: If you need to eat, just have the food delivered; if you want to buy something for the house, the stores are open 24 hours a day; if you want to watch a movie right now, just go to the internet. We all want it…
Know Your Neighbor
I once celebrated Mass in the middle of two residential condominium buildings: on my right was clean and orderly and the one my left was dirty and in disarray. Why the big difference? The one to my right followed the rules of the condominium and thus it was clean and orderly. The one on my…
Service
Many years ago there was tension between the Philippines and Hong Kong because of the killing of the Hong Kong tourists in Luneta. When emotions were high, there was a Hong Kong journalist who wrote an article about our country being a “Nation of Servants.” Certainly, he was not only referring to the Filipina servants…
Judging by Appearance
A social experiment was made with a person made to dress in very ordinary street clothes and enter an expensive car dealership. At first, none of the salespeople were minding him. Then he was treated shabbily, and he was not even allowed to test drive a car or even just to sit and get a…
Humility
There is a story of a businessman who made it not only big but very big. As the business grew, so did the ego, and he became very, very arrogant. Until one day, because of the changes in attitude, the business went down. Because of this, he could not show his face to his relatives,…
Planting Kindness
Matthew 13:1-9 What do Apple, Amazon, Google, Harley Davidson, and Disney have in common? They are just five of several famous companies that started in a car garage. If you talk to the founders, none of them ever thought that from humble beginnings, their start-up would eventually become billion-dollar companies. Moral of the story: it…
Giving is Life
The person who is perhaps the most giving in the world is none other than our mothers. Mothers are always giving. In fact, we arrived in this world because of Mothers. Notice the term used is “giving birth.” Because of Giving, we have life. In the Gospel, someone gave seven loaves of bread and few…
Things from Above
There was a very rich man who died and the people were curious how much money and property he left behind. One day, they saw the accountant in a restaurant and they asked him how much money and property did the rich man leave behind? The answer was simple, “everything.” The Gospel today talks about…
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