Mending a broken society
THAT’S the title of a nice little book written by a priest-friend of mine, Fr. Henry Bocala.
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Hope in God’s mercy
ONE of the great challenges in dispensing divine mercy through the sacrament of penance or confession is how to reassure penitents in the throes of despair that there is always hope, God always forgives, it’s not yet the end of the world.
That Christmas Star
“What are you looking for?” the wife asked as we rummaged through the storeroom. “A star,” we said.
Making time timeless
IT’S a question of love. It’s a question of how we understand time, how we manage it, what we think its real objective is.
Summits for sale?
“Once again, Cambodia tried to pull a fast one on the Philippines and other Asean countries involved in territorial disputes with China,” Inquirer noted in Thursday’s editorial on the just concluded 21st Asean Summit in Phom Penh.
Apostolate is for all
Before it gets frozen and confined in what may be called as a religious asylum, we have to strongly affirm and remind everyone that the duty to do apostolate belongs to everyone of us.
Out on a limb
“Our gut feeling is President Benigno Aquino will still deliver.on his election campaign pledge to get a Freedom of Information law on the books.”
Highly contagious
“Count on Americans to do the right thing — after they’ve tried everything else”., Winston Churchill once joked.
The word we love-hate
IN biblical literature, the world can elicit two opposing reactions. One is hating it or at least be cautious of it, as in, “What shall it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?” (Mk 8,36)
Riding the whirlwinds
In November 1991, Typhoon Uring ( Thelma) killed, 5,101. “Ormoc was a scene from Holocaust where bodies were stacked upon each other like logs.”
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