General Chapter behind the scenes photos
Bishop Ryan Jimenez visits OAR Generalate
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Read MoreNo Matter Who You Are
No Matter Who You Are, Always Delay Judgment A lovely little girl was holding two apples with both hands. Her mum came in and softly asked her little daughter with a smile: “my sweetie, could you give your mum one of your two apples?” The girl looked up at her mum for some seconds, then she…
Read MoreChange the Battle Ground
Change the Battle Ground The Eagle does not fight the snake on the ground. It picks it up into the sky and changes the battle ground, and then it releases the snake into the sky. The snake has no stamina, no power and no balance in the air. It is useless, weak and vulnerable unlike…
Read More27th 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…
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