27th Sunday C
27th Sunday C (Luke 17: 5-10) The point that Jesus is making in the parable is that faith demands that we serve God unconditionally. Jesus insists that God owes us nothing and we do not conduct our business with God on a contractual basis. We are mere creatures and creatures as we are; we…
Read MoreSix Filipino Recollects among members of 55th General Chapter
ROME—Fray Dionisio Selma, Prior Provincial of the St. Ezekiel Moreno Province, leads the group of Filipino Recollects who are participating in the sexennial General Chapter to be held at Casa di Esercizi Spirituali Nostra Signora Madre della Misericordia in Via di Monte Cucco, Rome, starting October 2, 2016. The other Filipinos in the list are…
Read MoreBible Statistics
I want to share with you, on this feast of St. Jerome, some interesting statistics about Bible reading gathered from a survey conducted among adult Catholics and among Christians in general: First the good news—87% adult Catholics who were surveyed said that they have bibles in their homes. The bad news is that only…
Read More27th Sunday in Ordinary Time
2 October, 2016 Reflection: How do we respond to the difficult situations and questions that life offers us? Our readings this Sunday offer us only one thing, faith. But we might think that it is just a mere “spiritualizing” of concrete problems and difficulties. No, faith is beyond saying “bahala na,” faith is having the…
Read MoreStop being a glass . . .
Stop Being A Glass, Become A Lake. Let me share this story: Once an unhappy young man came to an old master and told he had a very sad life and asked for a solution. The old Master instructed the unhappy young man to put a handful of salt in a glass of water and then…
Read MoreThe Beatitudes
THE BEATITUDES . . . which are not! 1. Blessed are those who make wise investments for they can afford frequent local and foreign trips. 2. Blessed are those assigned to affluent parishes…
Read MoreRecoletos de Cebu 400 Logo launched
SYMBOLS IN THE LOGO The Bamboo Cross – The mark of our Filipino Catholic Faith, from our Christianization to a lively inculturation of our faith. The Flaming Heart – The Augustinian Recollect identity of a heart from God and a love for humanity. The Island of Cebu – where the heart of Philippine Christianity…
Read MoreTwo Wolves
This is one of my favorites! An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life. “A fight is going on inside me,” he said to the boy. “It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil – he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, worry,…
Read MoreWhat happens in heaven when we pray?
WHAT HAPPENS IN HEAVEN WHEN WE PRAY? This is one of the nicest e-mails I have seen and is so true: “I dreamed that I went to Heaven and an angel was showing me around. We walked side-by-side inside a large workroom filled with angels. My angel guide stopped in front of the first section…
Read MoreForSOAR Cebu Meet
September 12, 2016, a Monday and national holiday, was a historic day that would be forever etched in the history of the organization, Former Seminarians of the Order of Augustinian Recollects (ForSOAR), Cebu Chapter. It was on this day that the members of the said organization gathered together for a day of meeting that started…
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