Dear friends, brothers and sisters in Christ, 1. Today’s feast celebrates the manifestation of Christ the Lord as the Light of revelation to all the world and the fulfillment of every human desire and aspiration. Some of the principal characters of today’s feast of manifestation presented to us in the Gospel text are [Read More]

Dear Parishioners, our world is full of people in crisis. This is manifested especially in the present generation. A simple example is that of the Crisis of corporeality: we have people who neglect their bodies to the extent that they look like beasts. On the other side we have those who [Read More]

I. Listening to the plea of an endangered humanity 1. At the dawn of this New Year given to us by our heavenly Father, a year of Jubilee in the spirit of hope, I offer heartfelt good wishes of peace to every man and woman. I think especially of those who [Read More]

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, One month ago, I went through the weekly writeups from Dr. Bill, our resource person during the [Read More]

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, 1. Today, the universal Church celebrates Holy Family Sunday. This celebration is within the context of the Holy Family of Nazareth as the ideal Family with all it takes for all other [Read More}

Dear Parishioners, after being cast out of the synagogue, the blind man has a second encounter with Christ, who has a question (Himself) for the blind man. He asks him [Read More]

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, 1. Today we are celebrating the Birthday of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. This is the birthday of all birthdays because we are [Read More]

Dear brothers and sisters, 1. This is the night that was made by the Lord, we rejoice and are glad. For a Light shines in the darkness and the darkness cannot overpower it. This world in which we live, as it were, was swallowed up in the [Read More]

Dear Parishioners, Let us today reflect on Faith, Healing and Salvation. When Jesus healed a person, he also saved the [Read More]

Beloved Brothers and Sisters in Christ, 1. Today is the 3rd Sunday of Advent Year C. The central theme that runs across the readings today is that we should [Read More]

Dear Parishioners, we need to consider for our reflection some Mendicant Model of vowed Lifestyle. They are: i) St. Francis of Assisi: He belonged to a relatively wealthy [Read More]

Readings: Baruch 5:1-9, Phil. 1:4-6,8-11, and Lk. 3:1-6. “Prepare the Road for the Master.” Beloved Brothers and Sisters in Christ, 1. One of the things that marvels me in this country is the road network. The designs of the road network, the machines used, the technical know-how, and the driving lights to create order and smoothness in driving. It even puzzles me the more when I observed [Read More]

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, 1. Happy New Year to everyone seated in this Church today. We have moved from the [Read More]

Dear Parishioners, it is worthwhile considering the attributes of a vowed life. They are [Read More]

Beloved Brothers and Sisters, 1. Today, the entire Catholic world celebrates the Solemnity of Christ the King, King of the Universe. He is God; He established an everlasting Kingdom here on earth and in heaven, Paradise. This Solemnity is not too old in the Church. It was instituted by Pope Pius XI with the rise of Communism, Fascism and Nazism in the1920s. These ideologies ruled the people, and the Pope said [Read More]

Dear Parishioners, the number of priests, religious men and women coming from a family or from a designated community of believers could also be a good indication of [Read More]

Dear Parishioners, When all is said and done, we cannot say that we can fully explain away the [Read More]

Dear Parishioners, The Church has received the Eucharist from Christ her Lord not as one gift – however precious – among so many others, but as [Read More]

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, 1. The Israelites prior to their settlement in the land of Canaan, were nomads, settling periodically from place to place before and during the Exodus Experience. They came to [Read More]

Dear Parishioners, On the evening of the Last Supper, Jesus instituted the Eucharist as a memorial of his saving act and commanded us to do the same in memory of him. What he did using bread and wine on that evening, declaring it, transforming it into his body and blood, he did it the following day in a bloody manner by [Read More]