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God always provides

by Fr. Roy Cimagala - December 4, 2024 - 12:00am

Indeed, God always provides for all our needs, foremost of which is our own salvation, our own sanctification, the achievement of our ultimate goal which is to be like him, sharers of his life and nature.

The pursuit of creativity and innovation

by Fr. Roy Cimagala - December 2, 2024 - 12:00am

Everyone should be encouraged to be as creative and innovative as he can be.

“My words will not pass away”

by Fr. Roy Cimagala - November 29, 2024 - 12:00am

Christ explicitly said these words.

Unafraid to face the world’s end

by Fr. Roy Cimagala - November 27, 2024 - 12:00am

That’s what Christ practically told the crowd as he described how the end of the world would be. (cfr. Lk 21,12-19) “They will seize and persecute you, they will hand you over to the synagogues and to...

Christian poverty more than just detachment from things

by Fr. Roy Cimagala - November 25, 2024 - 12:00am

That gospel episode where Christ praised a poor widow for giving all that she had to live on to the treasury of the temple (cfr. Lk 21,1-4) graphically reminds us that Christian poverty, which is what is required...

“My kingdom is not of this world”

by Fr. Roy Cimagala - November 24, 2024 - 12:00am

Words of Christ in response to Pilate’s question, “Art thou the king of the Jews?” (Jn 18,33) That was when Christ clarified who he really was, and yet the poor Pilate and many of the Jews of that...

Open to all

by Fr. Roy Cimagala - November 22, 2024 - 12:00am

“All the people were hanging on his words.” (Lk 19,48) Because of that, those leading Jews who wanted to put Christ to death could not carry out their plan. Let’s hope that we too can get so close...

Emotivism

by Fr. Roy Cimagala - November 20, 2024 - 12:00am

We have to be aware of this way of looking and reacting to things in general that is actually ruling the lives of many people, especially the young ones, who do not know yet how to properly handle their emotions,...

Keeping a purposive life

by Fr. Roy Cimagala - November 18, 2024 - 12:00am

That’s what we should maintain in life. We need to develop a keen sense of the purpose of our life and keep it in play in every circumstance and situation of our life.

Strengthening our sense of purpose in life

by Fr. Roy Cimagala - November 15, 2024 - 12:00am

In the gospel of St. Luke (17,26-37), we hear Christ lamenting over how people in the long history of humanity were entangled in their earthly affairs while practically ignoring the real purpose of life.

We need to be grateful always

by Fr. Roy Cimagala - November 13, 2024 - 12:00am

This is the lesson we can learn from that gospel episode where Christ cured 10 lepers but only one of them came back to Christ to thank him. (cfr. Lk 17,11-19) We should never forget to thank God, first of all, and...

Beware of secularism

by Fr. Roy Cimagala - November 12, 2024 - 12:00am

The problem of secularism is that it promotes a social order that is neither connected to religion nor critical of it.

The duty to give good example

by Fr. Roy Cimagala - November 11, 2024 - 12:00am

Once again, we are reminded of our duty to always give good example to others in that gospel reading of Monday of the 32nd week in Ordinary Time.

Be both simple and shrewd

by Fr. Roy Cimagala - November 8, 2024 - 12:00am

This is the challenge we have to face in this life.

Passionate to join the heavenly banquet

by Fr. Roy Cimagala - November 6, 2024 - 12:00am

This is the ideal condition for us. Our greatest and strongest passion should be to live our definitive eternal state of life with God in heaven, where we actually come from and where we should be at the end. It’s...

Total self-giving without expecting any return

by Fr. Roy Cimagala - November 4, 2024 - 12:00am

It’s the call Christ addresses to us when he told his disciples: “When you hold a lunch or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or sisters or your relative or your wealthy neighbors,...

Proper relation between parents and children

by Fr. Roy Cimagala - October 30, 2024 - 12:00am

In his Letter to the Ephesians, St. Paul describes what the proper Christian relation is between parents and children, between masters and servants.

Even Christ had to pray

by Fr. Roy Cimagala - October 28, 2024 - 12:00am

It’s worthwhile noting that even Christ had to spend the night praying before he made that big decision of choosing his 12 apostles among the many disciples that he had at that time. This could only mean that...

Our temporal affairs should serve our ultimate goal

by Fr. Roy Cimagala - October 23, 2024 - 12:00am

That’s the lesson we can draw from that gospel parable about the faithful and prudent steward.

Going beyond the material and temporal

by Fr. Roy Cimagala - October 21, 2024 - 12:00am

We have to be most careful with our tendency to be too attached to the material and temporal dimensions of our life such that we may consider them to be our end-all and be-all. We have to learn to go beyond them,...

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