Reflections Archive

I find it amazing that the Scripture can challenge us in just a few brief words.  Today’s gospel brings to a close the so called missionary discourse in which Jesus instructs his disciples on what it actually means to be a disciple. Jesus speaks of the sacrifice...

Our pilgrimage as a church has, in the past weeks, taken us from Easter through Pentecost, the Solemnity of the Holy Trinity, and just a week ago, to the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ.  To me, these celebrations remind us of the dignity that we do not...

I started being involved in the church when I was in elementary.  I was invited by some elder sisters and people who happened to be catechists and servants then.  I remember how fascinated I was in attending masses, choir rehearsals and parochial events.  At a young...

For more than three decades, I keep on doing the sign of the cross because I was born Catholic.  When I asked why three divine persons, it was explained in a way that I still cannot grasp.  All because it is a mystery meant to be taken into heart by faith.  And when...

"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...