SHOWING a deep concern for the newly married couple in Cana, Mary told Jesus, “They have no wine.” Jesus responded, “Woman, how does your concern affect me. My hour has not…

NO matter how “worldly” we can become, there will moments when we feel the restlessness of wanting to relate with someone higher than us, someone bigger than life. Deep within…

IT was the second time this first week of the year that I joined my friend in his visit to his 86-year-old mother. Sick with bad flu, his mother could…

AS Christmas season passed by, we looked at the photos of families and friends we shared on Facebook and Instagram and expressed a profound sense of gratitude to God. Thank…

  THERE wouldn’t Christmas without Mary. There wouldn’t be Christmas without her fiat—her absolute “yes” to be the Mother of God so that Jesus, the Son of God, would be…

ADVENT is a time of waiting for the celebration of Christmas to commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ.  And as I wrote last week, it’s also a time of waiting…

it’s Advent season — a period of preparation for two “comings”!  First, we’re preparing for the coming of Christmas, the celebration of God becoming incarnate in His Son, Jesus Christ….

FR. Patrick Mbazuigwe shared the following ancient legend in a sermon about the beauty of gratitude. It’s from Kiran Kumar Roy’s blog.  A young man while roaming the desert came…

WE can spend many years of studies, read many books, travel to many places, hear from both simple and erudite people, and learn lessons from the experiences of life, but…

THE Scripture readings this Sunday present stories about two widows. The first one is from the Book of Kings. Thirsty and hungry after a long trip to the city of…

MY recent Marian pilgrimage to Fatima, Lourdes, and the other Marian shrines in Spain convinced me even more of the importance and the urgency to bring back Catholic fervor in…

AND as he was leaving Jericho along with his disciples and a large crowd, Bartimaeus, a blind man, son of Timaeus sat at the roadside begging. On hearing that it…

“If Jesus, the Son of God, was hated and killed, what excuses do we have, mere human beings, from not also being mocked, attacked, belittled, and put on the cross…

A YOUNG man ran up to Jesus and asked him, “Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”  Jesus answered, “Why do you call me good? No one…

THE Gospel this Sunday (Mark 10:2-16) begins with the Pharisees asking Jesus if it is lawful for a husband to divorce his wife. Jesus responded by reminding them of the…

ON World Youth Day in 2014, Pope Francis challenged young people with this message: “Do you really want to be happy? In an age when we are constantly being tempted…

SOME people are not religious, but they possess genuine human qualities of compassion, kindness, empathy, and care for other people. They are people who may not always go to church…

“The boat may be sinking, our doubts may be lurking, but should we not stand firm to save our church?”  ONE day, as Jesus was walking toward the villages of…

THIS Sunday’s Gospel presents Jesus’s miraculous healing of a deaf man (Mark 7:31-37) . As Jesus took the deaf man off by himself away from the crowd, he put his…

IN this Sunday’s Gospel, Peter remarked to Jesus, “Master, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.”  Such is Peter’s testament of unwavering faith and fidelity…

ONCE again, Jesus insists on claiming to call himself the “bread of life” in this Sunday’s Gospel (John 6:51-58). “I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever…

“My health may fail, my body may age, but my love, faith and hope in God will remain frim and strong.”  WHY do I keep believing in Jesus Christ and his teachings? This…

“We are what we eat.”  THAT’S the tagline that we’ve heard for many years.  Proper nutrition has a lot to do with the way we feel, with our physical and…

“BORDERS? I have never seen one. But I have heard they exist in the minds of some people,” Thor Heyerdahl, the famous Norwegian adventurer and ethnographer, once said.   Heyerdahl is…

A PRIEST flew thousands of miles to spend a month with the community of Mother Teresa in Calcutta, India. He was in a stage of discernment for God’s further purpose…

THE poetic words of Psalms 85:11-12 strike a chord in many of us today: “Kindness and truth shall meet; justice and peace shall kiss. Truth shall spring out of the…

YOU must be bold and brave to exercise your prophetic role nowadays. You must be willing to suffer, to undergo hatred, condemnation, ridicule, and persecution. For your beliefs and principles…

KEEP praying to God. Keep praising him! See what He has done for you through the years. Bless him for guiding you, accompanying you through life’s challenges. Rejoice for God has granted you…

“WHAT, then, will this child be?” It was the question that Zachariah and Elizabeth’s relatives and neighbors asked one another at seeing God’s hand working in the life of this…

I”LL say, let the seed flow from your hand into the welcoming soil and allow God’s nature to take its course. Trust that the seed will break in due time…