Reflections

5th Sunday of the Ordinary Time February 7, 2016 In today’s Gospel, Jesus shows us that even if we are gifted and possess professional skills, we are still weak, limited and finite human beings. However, God’s love is infinite, unconditional and endless. It is our own pride that hinders us from accepting Him to be…

“We must avoid the attitude of someone who judges and condemns from the lofty heights of his own certainty, looking for the splinter in his brother’s eye while remaining unaware of the beam in his own” (The Name of God is Mercy). Pope Francis

The Days after Christmas. . . It is just a few days after celebrating Christ’s birth. But there is the inevitable letdown. The empty boxes, the pretty papers on the floor, the empty bottles . . . Life has come back to normal, whatever that is, and it means that the diversion of the past…

A New Year with a new heart . . . If you happen to look at the headlines of the past days you will notice that the news only affirms that year after year, nothing has really changed. News is the same the world over: corruption in the government, kidnappings, murders, rape, exploitation of the…

The Days after Christmas It is just a few days after celebrating Christ’s birth. But there is the inevitable letdown. The empty boxes, the pretty paper on the floor, the empty bottles . . . Life has come back to normal, whatever that is, and it means that the diversion of the past few weeks,…

Christ did not come into the world only for December 25–he came to live with us for the rest of our lives . . . and for eternity. So let’s make each day like Christmas! onz, oar

”What does Christmas mean?” Perhaps we should begin with this question because Christmas seems to mean so many things to so many people. IF Christmas means family; THEN what does Christmas mean to a person who has just lost a loved one or has no family? IF Christmas means shopping malls, Christmas trees and blinking…

God has something ready for each one of us during these Aguinaldo Masses:   • maybe a new insight that will make us grow in   wisdom; •maybe an experience of forgiveness or spiritual liberation that will bring us deeper interior peace;   •maybe a word of grace that will heal us of an old and festering…

Never be afraid to approach Jesus this Christmas. Precisely, He came as a Child and not as a mighty king, with mighty throng of armies, so that we can be so attracted to approach Him as it is almost effortless and spontaneously alluring to approach a child. ONZ, OAR

The story is told of a mother who was very busy getting ready for Christmas. One day, hurrying from store to store, she lost her little boy. Frantically retracing her steps, she found him blocks away with his nose flatly pressed against a plate-glass shop window. When he saw his mother, he exclaimed, “Look, Mom,…