Reflections Archive

"Pentecost is celebrating the descent of the Holy Spirit on the disciples of Jesus after His Ascension. Pentecost is also the day in which the church was started. Since the spirit brings the church into existence and enlivens it. Thus, Pentecost is the church's...

Have you accepted your commission?  We are never too young or too old to tell others about God’s great love to all of us, the gift of new life and the Good News of our salvation through Jesus. The gospel passage os from the very end of Matthews’s gospel, before Jesus...

Oftentimes, we face difficulties in life. And as we look back, it is unexplainable how some people managed to help us in their own ways. It is incomprehensible how we managed to have the strength to go on and overcome such troubles; and after a while, in just a matter...

I found comfort in the reassuring words of “do not let your hearts be troubled…” I remember when I was young, I got lost in church, surrounded by many people.  It took me a little while to realize that I didn’t know where my mother was. The truth was, I was lost the...

  As I tried to reflect on today's Gospel, I remembered one anecdote from my high school days, it was my first year in high school in an all-boys school when we were encouraged to take the sacrament of reconciliation. That was the second time I went to...

  How is Jesus alive and present among us? Do we burn with love for Him? When have we experienced the strange and wonderful feeling of the burning heart, as we listen to the word of God at the Holy Eucharist or through our own prayers? Today’s beautiful gospel...

Pain is crippling. Fear of what the future holds inhibits one from moving forward. Too much hurt gives a person more reason to rely on his own realities so he can hide and take comfort in his own sorrow. Sometime in the first quarter of this year, I had what I would...

God listens. God heals. God forgives.  God answers our prayers. God has His perfect time. As Christians, we all know these realities and we keep holding on to them.  However, do we also believe that the Son of God, Jesus Christ, has risen from His death?  The tomb was...

Have there been times in our lives we betrayed and denied Jesus, not in the obvious and literal way of Judas, but in our hearts and actions? The gospel passion narrative begins with the plot of Judas Iscariot to betray Jesus and continues through familiar scenes:...

Para sa Linggong ito, hindi maipagkakaila kung saan hahantong ang paglalakbay natin ngayong panahon ng Cuaresma. Isang linggo mula ngayon, bago ang Linggo ng Palaspas o kaya naman ay “Passion Sunday”, marka ng pagsisimula ng Semana Santa, hindi simoy ng pamumukadkad...