Aug 7, 2026 Stillness Amidst the Storm “To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek Him is the greatest adventure; and to find Him is the greatest achievement.” I read these…
Jun 12, 2026 Eyes of Mercy, Hands of Service While reflecting on this Sunday’s Gospel, I was reminded of this passage from the Book of Exodus. “I have observed the misery of my people... I have…
Apr 10, 2026 Father, can I hug you? "Bless me, Father, for I have sinned… These are my sins….” Sometimes, a penitent finds it difficult to begin or to confess their sins, especially whe…
Feb 6, 2026 LET YOUR FAITH SHINE “Be yourself.” “Just do it.” “If it feels good, do it.” “I get to do whatever I want to do.” These slogans apparently encourage and inspire us to be…
Oct 2, 2025 Increase Our Faith! Why do good people suffer? Why do innocent people suffer? We often ask these questions when we encounter or witness suffering inflicted upon the live…
Aug 8, 2025 Not Clarity but Trust Once, a man traveled high into the mountains in search of peace. Life in the city had left him tired, scattered, and restless. He had heard of a quie…
Jun 6, 2025 Awaken by God within us There was once a time when all human beings were gods, but they so abused their divinity that Brahma, the chief god, decided to take it away from the…
Apr 11, 2025 Jesus’ loving gaze He is a King—yet why is He riding a donkey? How can a King appear so ordinary? These were some of the questions that stirred in my heart as I reflect…
Feb 8, 2025 Too late have I loved you! Recently our community invited a lay Filipino catholic who works in Indonesia for more than thirty years. He is a member of lay group in the Philippi…
Dec 6, 2024 Listen to His voice from your hidden place Christmas is always a joyful season. It is a family time. It is a party time. Time to give and receive gifts. By now, we already started buying or at…
Sep 28, 2024 Be a channel of peace The visit of Pope Francis to some countries in Asia recently was colored with some beautiful gestures of building up the culture of an encounter. The…
Jul 20, 2024 Your Heart Today Riding a bus or a jeepney or even listening to a taxi driver always an opportunity for me to encounter people from variety walk of lives. These publi…
May 10, 2024 He Ascended into Heaven I would like to begin this reflection on the solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord with the letter to the Hebrews, “For here we have no lasting city…
Mar 1, 2024 Let us go to the house of the Lord! “I rejoice when I heard them say, let us go to the house of God.” This opening sentence of the psalm 121 is one of my favorite songs. This psalm beau…
Dec 15, 2023 Rejoice in the Lord, Always! Let advent be an advent! Perhaps, for some, this invitation to value the Advent season on the third Sunday of Advent could be a strange thing to list…
Oct 6, 2023 Unconditional Love Let me begin this reflection on the gospel for this coming Sunday by quoting the Exultet that we usually sing during the Easter Vigil: “What good wou…
Aug 11, 2023 Fix our Eyes on Jesus and not in the strong winds At the very beginning of my formation in the seminary, I was asked to spend three weeks of immersion in a Muslim family in Jakarta, Indonesia. The fa…
Jun 9, 2023 Jesus, the Living Bread One of the many blessings I have received in my ministry as a priest is to witness the journey of families that center their lives in the Eucharist…
Mar 31, 2023 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Fr. Patrick and I visited more than twenty sick people in our area recently. We gave them communion and the sacrament of Anointing of the sick. Most…
Jan 19, 2023 Christ, Be Our Light Imagine you are taking part in a prayer vigil. The lights in the church are off. The processions begins and the servants, the Altar Servers, the Prie…
Nov 12, 2022 Beware that you are not led astray! Let me begin my reflection by sharing with you a tale from ancient India as retells by Henri Nouwen. It is a story of four royal brothers. These four…
May 21, 2022 I am going away, and I am coming to you In 2013, under the trees at the Sacred Heart-retreat house of Jesuits, Novaliches, Quezon City, we sat and mourned. We were speechless. We couldn’t i…
Mar 11, 2022 It is good that we are here Three Russian monks lived on a faraway island. Nobody ever went there, but one day their bishop decided to make a pastoral visit. When he arrived, he…
Jan 8, 2022 You are My Beloved! The Christmas vacation and party are over. We are back to our daily routine. We go back to our workplaces. The joy of Christmas somehow diminished. W…
Nov 6, 2021 All or Nothing All or Nothing is a title of a documentary movie about the life of Sister Clare Crockett from Ireland. When she was still young she wanted to be a fa…
Sep 3, 2021 “Ephphatha!” “Be Opened!” “Father, please include in your prayers my mother who is sick. Father, we are in a strict quarantine because one of our family got covid-19. Father…
Jul 10, 2021 With open hands A story about an old woman who was brought to a psychiatric center. She was wild, swinging at everything in sight, and scaring everyone so much that…
May 1, 2021 We are called to be Fruitful When I was in Philosophy, I used to take care of our little garden. Cutting the grass and plants was my delight. In the middle of our garden there we…
Mar 5, 2021 How lovely is your dwelling Place, O God! “A Church goer wrote a letter to the editor of a newspaper and complained that it made no sense to go to church every Sunday. “I’ve gone for 30 years…
Jan 8, 2021 I have called you by name In 2011, more than 200 hundred girls in India took part in renaming ceremony. This celebration was an opportunity to change one’s name. One of the gi…
Nov 27, 2020 Bangon Marikina! Marikina Kaya Natin! Bangon Marikina! Get up. Rise up. You will find this slogan (Bagong Marikina) everywhere in Marikina City. This slogan delivers a posi…
Oct 3, 2020 Love without limits Six months ago, at the beginning of this pandemic, our front liners advised us to stay at home as they put it, “I stay at work for you and you stay a…
Aug 6, 2020 Timeout Last Sunday, we just restarted our Mass in the Parish after four mounts without Mass with the people. It was a great joy to celebrate the Eucharist i…
Jun 12, 2020 Leaving the Catholic Church is a bad idea A Former Protestant Pastor, Keith Nester, who converted to the Catholic Church, recently said that “leaving the Catholic Church is a bad idea. Why? O…
Mar 27, 2020 “We stayed at work for you, you stay at home for us” It has been two weeks now, we stay at home, since the lockdown declared by the government. We have cooperated, following the order: social distancing…
Jan 16, 2020 Sir, let me kiss my child! I was standing in front of Marikina City Jail, waiting for the Mass. Standing along with me an old woman and a little girl. While were waiting outsid…
Nov 29, 2019 Wake up! pay attention! One night a man had a dream. He dreamed he was walking along the beach with God. Across the sky flashed scenes from his life. For each scene, he noti…
Oct 10, 2019 The Name of God Is Mercy I vividly remember the day when Pope Francis visited Tacloban on January 17, 2015. I was sitting in front of the TV following the pastoral visit of t…
Sep 26, 2019 Do not ever say: "These beggars annoy me!" “Do not ever say: ‘These beggars annoy me!’ So many millions of men live on earth and all are beggars before the Lord; emperors, as well as laborers…
May 31, 2019 Make your home in me as I make mine in you A little girl walked with her mother in a garden. While the mother was taking pictures, the little girl said, Mommy, I want to become an eagle so tha…
Apr 18, 2019 When you are Down, Look Up! Why Lord? Perhaps this was also the question of Mary Magdalene in facing the tragic death of Jesus whom she loved. She didn’t understand why her mast…
Mar 7, 2019 Eat all you can! Unlimited Rice! Rice-all-you can! Jesus kept the fast - “Man does not live by bread alone.’” If Adam and Eve broke the fast, Jesus (New Adam) kept the fast. At the beginning of his m…
