“We are all blind. But we can be healed through faith.” In tomorrow’s gospel, the Fourth Sunday of Lent, Jesus meets a man who was born blind. His disciples asked if his blindness was a result of his or his parents’ sin, but Jesus said neither. He healed the man by putting clay on his …
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The Spirit of all seasons
“This Lent, and in all seasons, let us listen to the Holy Spirit” During his first Lenten sermon in 2023, Cardinal Raniero Cantalamessa, O.F.M. Cap., the Preacher of the Papal Household, spoke about the importance of the newness of the Spirit and the need for constant renewal and conversion, both at the individual and Church …
The Samaritan woman
“We all need to rediscover the importance and the sense of our Christian life, initiated in Baptism and, like the Samaritan woman, to witness to our brothers.” For the Gospel tomorrow, the Third Sunday of Lent, we will contemplate on the powerful encounter between Jesus and the Samaritan woman at the well, one of the …
Saved in hope
“Suffering is always charged with mystery, difficult to accept and to bear” Benedict XVI headed the Catholic Church and was sovereign of the Vatican City State from April 19, 2005 until his resignation on February 28, 2013. During his papacy, he left remarkable sermons and messages that elucidated human sickness and suffering and what it …
Transfigured in suffering
“Those of us who are sick and/or suffering, through faith, can be transfigured as the apostles were in the gospel tomorrow, the Second Sunday of Lent” Our Christian faith views suffering as an intrinsic part of the human experience due to the existence of sin and brokenness in the world. Nonetheless, it also holds a …
Redemptive suffering as Advent message
“Most powerfully, Christ’s resurrection reveals that all of this—these broken relationships, suffering, death itself—is temporary for those who have been saved by Christ and given themselves to him.” We are now on the second Sunday of the four Sundays of Advent, and today we hear the great voice of John the Baptist. John the Baptist …
Padre Pio and Advent
“As in the Gospel reading, the wise servant does not await for the Master to announce his coming but is always ready at any time for his arrival.” The Gospel of Matthew tomorrow, the First Sunday of Advent, speaks of Jesus warning his disciples to be prepared for the coming of the Son of Man. …
Death and Judgement
“Indeed, Our Lord has measured out our years and of those years that have resolved to leave us on this earth he has marked out one which shall be our last one” As we celebrate All Saints Day today and All Souls Day tomorrow, let us take time to reflect on the words of St. …
Sina Chad, Jurain, at Daday mga Pag-Asa ng Bayan!
Hayaan ninyong itanim namin ang inyong mga kwento, isulat ang mga ito, at ipasa sa mga susunod na henerasyon ng kabataang Pilipino. Hayaan ninyong itanim namin kayo upang magbunga ng napakarami pang kabataang kasing tatapang at gagaling ninyo, Chad at Jurain. Noong ika-24 ng Pebrero, ilang linggo lang ang nakakalipas, nabalitaan ng buong bansa ang …
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Magic in Dean Merlin’s Classroom
To paraphrase the good Ambassador, Dean Merlin may ‘have confused us all in class, but as we learned later as we practiced our professions, all he did was sharpen our minds’ Dean Merlin Magallona, who died on New Year’s Day at 87 years of age, spoke in a monotone, a voice that was flat and …
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