A year ago, I embarked on a journey to understand the Catholic faith more deeply. Initially, I believed that faith was solely about my well-being, finding inner peace, and pursuing happiness. However, I soon discovered that there was much more to the faith than I had anticipated. It was not merely a yoga retreat, a self-healing rehabilitation center, or a [...]
As we celebrate our Patron’s feast, we are reminded to bring before the angels our offerings to the Lord. The angels accompanies us, as we approach the temple of the Lord, the altar of the Lord. No one is allowed into this temple as it is guarded by the angels of the Lord. To be worthy is to bring a [...]
Some of us can probably resonate with the Gospel reading for today, feeling unjust for the workers who were hired first as it does seem unfair to be paid the same wage as those who only worked for 1 hour, bearing the work under the terrible heat for the entire day. Why should they be paid the same as me, [...]
Jesus teaches his disciples to be forgiving. No limit should be set on the number of times we need to forgive. Jesus tells the parable of the Unforgiving Servant to drive his point. Jesus demands that we show pity to our fellow servants because Jesus has always shown us mercy. In the community, we need to forgive one another. In [...]
In the first reading, God warns Ezekiel, the one appointed as the watchman of the People of Israel that if he does not warn the wicked to stop doing his foolishness, he too, will be punished. Both of them will die. If he does his job, he will not die, even if the wicked does not listen. St. Paul in [...]
At the heart and locus of our Catholic faith, is the Catholic family. The Church is built with the foundational stone of Family. The Gospel of Matthew opens with an extensive genealogy of Jesus spanning fourteen generations. The first two sections draw information from the books of Ruth and 1 Chronicles. In the third section, except for the names Jechoniah, [...]
During my first RCIA lesson, I discovered that the Church isn't just a grand, elegant building as I had initially thought. Instead, it is a gathering of Christians in small communities or homes to worship and celebrate our Lord. In the time of the early Christians, they would pray, sing hymns, read Scripture, and share communal meals, also known as [...]
God’s Wisdom is different from our own Wisdom. He has his ways of making decisions for us which we will never understand as we do not understand his ways. However, trusting in his decisions is imperative for us believers. What we must have is faith and trust in his leadership. In the 2nd reading, Paul presents a doxology about God’s [...]
The prophet Isaiah reminds his contemporaries that those who believe in God are always welcome into God’s presence, on the mountain of the Lord. Faith in God expressed through obedience to God’s Word, makes one is eligible to enter into God’s presence. All believers will climb the mountain of the Lord. This reality described by Isaiah is put into practice [...]
The Hail Mary prayer or the prayer known as the Angelic Salutation, in the version that we know today, can be traced to its earliest printed copy in the breviary of the Camaldolese monks, a monastic order of hermits founded by St. Romuald. The official recognition of the Hail Mary in its complete form, as formalised in the Council of [...]
