As we move towards Holy Week, how would you answer this question, sisters and brothers: besides atonement for the sins of the world, what else do you think our Father and His Son desire that we see as we walk alongside Jesus on his Via Dolorosa &and as we look at him…

Our Lord would stay up all night if he had to; he’d make sure we’d never dread going home again when darkness set it. He’d make sure we were no longer anxious and scared.

When we truly come to know Jesus and his unconditional love for each one of us, not as some abstract theological notion, but experienced as palpable as the embrace of a parent, heard as clear as the comforting words of a confidant, and felt as encouraging as the prayers of…

The Incarnation, I keep telling my students, is not just a one-time-big-time day we peg on December 25. No; incarnating is God’s being and behavior. Incarnating is the total immersion of the divine into everything that is human, into all that is us, save sin.

The Incarnation is really more about a loving God who keeps healing brokenness. Jesus was not just prayer warrior on his knees. He was ever on his feet, frontlining.

As long as we keep trying to love others, treating them as we would have them treat us and doing for them as we would like them to do for us, we won’t be falling too short of the absolute loving of God that we are commanded to do. And maybe…

Almost because my professor decided to take pity on me by passing me anyway. And that was also how he taught me an unforgettable lesson about God’s mercy.

Perhaps this is why we mourn, not only for the trees, but for the kind of world we have created or devastated, that is making it more and more difficult to sustain life and all that is sacred, symbolized today by the burning wood of trees.

Since the lockdown, have we truly empathized towards others? Have we cried for someone’s suffering? Have we expressed our concern for others? Or are we more concerned for our own safety and self-preservation. Last June, I felt I needed to take a break and a retreat.

Gentle consolation is not about giving up or spiritual escapism. I think that it is a timely comfort and fact that gives us reasons to confidently rise and act with patience, aware of the stage and situation we are in. It is having a feel of the pace of God’s…