The WORD. The TRUTH.
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197 total views God our loving Father: It has been three weeks since June started and I was so happy we are already halfway through the year when suddenly the thermostat went crazy, going as high as 34 and 36 in some places; but, the most weird of all is after the searing heat of the
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259 total views While reflecting last night John’s gospel for today’s memorial of Mary, Mother of the Church, the song “Woman” by another John – John Lennon – kept playing at the back of my mind as I prayed over the words of Jesus calling Mary her mother as “woman” (Jn.19:26). It is the second time, and
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245 total views Like many of you, the people I elected lost last May 9. Fact is, I felt the same sense of loss and sadness and disappointment – but not depression nor anxiety – many of you feel today as early as 2016 when not even one opposition made it into the Senate. It was
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240 total views The word “touch” is a very touching one, connoting so many meanings while at the same time gives us a “feel” of what it really is. Its literal and figurative senses always go together with the most touching reaching deep down inside us that are also the gentlest and simplest. We are touched
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245 total views Ihave always taken homesickness lightly, dismissing it as a simple feeling we all go through once in a while when we leave home for various reasons. Maybe that is due to my entering the seminary in high school, aged 13-16, when I left my family for three years. Everything changed when I went