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Showing posts with label Daily Reflections - November 2012. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Daily Reflections - November 2012. Show all posts
Thursday, November 29, 2012

Daily Reflections - November 29,2012

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FROM HERE TO ETERNITY   Lola Apol is a 110-year-old woman from a simple parish south of Metro Manila. I met her when I was a youn...
Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Daily Reflections - November 28,2012

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WITH THE LORD, FEAR TURNS TO PEACE   As a new priest sitting inside the reconciliation room, listening and pasturing a penitent c...
Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Daily Reflections - November 27,2012

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WHAT COUNTS IS WHAT COUNTS!   Jesus’ teaching here began with His description of the temple being “adorned with costly stones and...
Monday, November 26, 2012

Daily Reflections - November 26,2012

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Being Whole By Giving All   When I was gathering some prizes for our alumni homecoming, I thought of soliciting from our priests ...

Daily Reflections - November 25,2012

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Stating the Obvious   A couple had been married for more than 20 years. The man had been a responsible husband and father. He had...
Friday, November 23, 2012

Daily Reflections - November 23,2012

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HOUSE OF PRAYERFULNESS   Jesus decried what the Jews had made of the only Sacred Temple that they had. This Temple was not just a...
Thursday, November 22, 2012

Daily Reflections - November 22,2012

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JESUS WEPT OVER THE CITY   City life attracts many of us. Though of Ilocano parents, my siblings and I grew up in Paco, Manila. W...
Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Daily Reflections - November 20,2012

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LOVE HEALS   Fr. Pascual Adorable, a Jesuit, was among the pioneers of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal Movement in the Philippin...
Monday, November 19, 2012

Daily Reflections - November 19,2012

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FAITH SHOUTS!   The Americans removed the icon of the tablets of the Ten Commandments in their Supreme Court, and they say that i...

Daily Reflections - November 18,2012

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THE HEAVENLY FATHER’S SECRET   The year 2011 had been marked by several catastrophes. Terrible earthquakes and a tsunami in Japan...

Daily Reflections - November 17,2012

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GOD IS UNLIKE...   The Apostle Paul writes, “Pray without ceasing” (1 Thessalonians 5:17). In another letter he also writes, “In ...
Friday, November 16, 2012

Daily Reflections - November 16,2012

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TIME AND PERSONS: CHERISHED GIFTS!   As I write these verses, I am in the midst of five families making their Family Encounter Wee...
Thursday, November 15, 2012

Daily Reflections - November 15,2012

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When Slavery is Sweet Surrender   For the modern man who has long rejected the inhumane practice of slavery, Paul’s encouragement...
Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Daily Reflections - November 14,2012

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Onward, Christian Soldier   A woman was praying her rosary inside the chapel. A woman carrying a baby was seated beside her. The ...
Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Daily Reflections - November 13,2012

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Say No Today!   In today’s First Reading, Paul writes a letter to Titus, the person in charge of the Church in Crete, and counsel...

Daily Reflections - November 12,2012

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Seek the Face of God   Some years ago, an agency launched a special fleet of planes that would be specially dedicated to religiou...

Daily Reflections - November 11,2012

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Give Your All   A parish priest was trying to encourage his congregation to give out donations for their church renovation projec...
Friday, November 9, 2012

Daily Reflections - November 9,2012

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To Whom or What Do You Dedicate Yourself?   When I was young, I would often see this particular set of china and silverware “ensh...
Thursday, November 8, 2012

Daily Reflections - November 8,2012

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You ’re Still You!   Imagine you’re in a bus and you have with you blank sheets of bond paper. Suddenly the bus speeds off and se...
Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Daily Reflections - November 7,2012

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LEADING AND LEARNING TO BE LED   It is discouraging for a leader to constantly justify himself before his people. We need to lear...