Category archives for: Commentary

Understanding obedience

It’s a basic virtue that comes to us like an instinct. It’s part of our natural endowments that at the beginning is ruled mainly by hormones.

Cultivate hunger for God

THIS is what fasting and abstinence seek to accomplish, practices we are encouraged to do during the season of Lent. It is to deprive ourselves of what gives us the usual and most bodily pleasure so that we can develop a certain hunger for God.

Voting with your feet

There are 33 candidates — many of them patently unqualified — jousting for 12 Senate seats, in the midyear elections.

How to fall in love

FALLING in love is certainly not only a pastime, nor a sideline, nor a fling. It’s the main thing, the main course in life. It’s our lifeblood.

The queue for halos

Until Friday, we saw this Cebu “templete” only on TV and newspaper photos. Creaking joints, grey hair and bifocals didn’t permit the wife and me to join over a million people who gathered there in thanksgiving for canonization of 17-year old Pedro Calungsod.

Reaching God

THOUGH we don’t hear it nor speak about it often, the reality of fools obviously continues to take place today and, in fact, in a more rampant albeit subtle ways.

Gutting the 7th Commandment

Have the “10 Commandments” been watered down into the “10 Suggestions”? That’s what today’s brawl over Congress Resolution No 10 — that auditors be barred from peering into legislators spending — is all about.

A journalism of hackers?

“Gigi” in today’s headlines is not the love-struck girl ( Leslie Caron ), serenaded by Maurice Chevalier, in the 1958 MGM musical. Jessica “Gigi” Reyes is chief of staff for the Senate President.

Work and prayer

THESE two ought to be together. At the moment, of course, we are farway off the ideal. Work and prayer are supposed to be together,because our life, though with many parts, aspects, levels, is only oneand that life is a life with God, our Creator and Father.

Epiphany Question

Araw Ng Tatlong Hari or “Feast of the Three Kings”, is marked here on first Sunday of the new year. Liturgically, this is known as the “Epiphany”. That translates into revelation of God the Son as a baby laid on a manger .

April Promo LSDE

ARCHIVES

Live Traffic Feed

Feedjit Widget
Log in | © Copyright 2013 leysamardaily.net | All Rights Reserved