Cruising the digital world
WE have to learn how to cruise the digital world. It’s practically part of everyone’s life now, offering a lot of good but also a lot of dangers. We should know how to make...
Let our weakness occasion strength
IF we believe in what St. Paul once said that it is “when I am weak, that I am strong,” (2 Cor 12,10) then there must be something good in our weakness, whatever form...
Spirit of recollection in the world
THIS is a skill we have to cultivate and practise all the time. Remember St. Paul telling us: “If you have risen with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is sitting...
When poverty is most advisable
THERE’S, of course, a good and a bad poverty. The bad one is common and obvious enough to see, and we have every right and duty to eliminate it. It comes in many forms,...
Ever-flowing compassion
“WHEN Jesus disembarked and saw the vast crowd, his heart was moved with pity for them, for they were like sheep without a shepherd, and he began to teach them many things.” (Mk 6,34)
This...
Year of the Laity
OUR beloved bishops have declared 2014 as the Year of the Laity. I suppose it is part of the 9-year preparation, a novena of sorts, for the celebration of the fifth centennial of the...