Healthy and Well
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... Read more
Sundowning
Have you ever seen your aging parents sundown, sisters and brothers? How about you, have you ever sundowned? What were you yearning for, or whom? What did you fear... Read more
Loved to Love (5th Sunday of Easter)
To love authentically and with greater integrity, we must be rooted into the only source of that life-giving and life-bearing love: Jesus himself. He who is God is love. Read more
Incarnate Forever
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... Read more
Two Impossible Commandments
Today our Lord does hand us what is virtually an impossible commandment, but he also furnishes us with the means to achieve that end. As long as we keep... Read more
A Eulogy for Sacred Trees
My love affair with trees began when I was 17 years old. I remember jogging around the Subic Naval base then, where I was spending my summer as an... Read more
God’s Word and (Slow) Work
We have been losing plenty of lives nowadays. The global crisis brought by the virus has taken away precious lives and have sown destruction and distraught in its path. Read more