SIGNS, WONDERS AND MIRACLES

   Every time I watch the TV whether it's the local or international news there is always unrest and discontentment. People are rallying all over the world . There are several issues today that question the management of the respective leaders. People are fighting and badmouthing words at each other. Above all of these things we must not forget and always remember that no matter what happens we will always be God's people and that is all we need to put order in our chaotic life. We look all around us and see the sinful way the people live in society. People do not realize how destructive their way of living to the point of ruining themselves. Instead of being repentant they resort to all kinds of evil ways and thus bring to themselves an incurable wound as what Jeremiah said in today's 1st reading. Life expectancy in some places of the world has gone down to 55 to 65. This is not due to poverty but the behavior that destroy society. Statistics show that 60% of the populatio...

 Honesty is the best policy. It always pays to be honest. No matter how unpleasant it may look and appear to others we must not compromise the truth just to gain the admiration of others or spare ourselves from discomfort and inconvenience. In today's 1st reading Hananiah was punished by God for not speaking the truth. There are times in our life when we are faced with difficult situations and we resort to what's practical and convenient even though deep in our heart we know that it is not exactly what God wants us to do. We ought to be careful of the words we speak to others as it may leave them with the wrong impression or worse the wrong information. Just like in today's 1st reading, no matter how pleasant the prophecy of Hananiah was if it was not truly coming from the Lord then it would just make things worse than it was before. We should also guard ourselves of this because we all have a tendency to put too much icing on the cake just to mask the real issue. There may...

 Why can't we get it through our thick heads? God has always been inviting us to come to Him but we don't seem to respond wholeheartedly. Why? As always things are easier said than done, because we still belong to this world and somehow what we see around us still has an impact on our daily struggles. So what do we do? It's not that simple but we can start by always reminding ourselves of this truth by surrounding our world with reminders, memos and flashcards of God's goodness to us. One simple tip that I do is to always have a small prayer book and a rosary in my bag. Write down a favorite bible passage and always keep it handy during times of doubt. Although we may have been encountering a lot of disappointments owing to the failures and misgivings that have been happening all around us, we are still hopeful, rejoicing and glad. You know why? There really is hope! Today's 1st reading contains almost everything we needed to hear and be reminded of always. It is a ...

    Today’s 1st reading is a very brave demonstration of faith in God. Jeremiah totally surrendered his fate to the hands of those people who are out to get him even to the point of death so that he could speak out the words that God asked him to proclaim. What courage and strength that he was willing to go through it all for the sake of the word of God. We are better off than Jeremiah knowing that witnessing to the word of God every day of our life does not put us in a life threatening situation like in his time.    This should inspire us to really be of service to the word of God in our own way as we live our life each day. God is always there for us. He has been warning and instructing us to change our ways for the better because He knows exactly what await those who refuse to follow His path. When we encounter some obstacles or problems in life we must take them as warning signs from the Lord that life’s road ahead is not passable or will be a difficult one to ta...

   The Lord is constantly calling us back to Him since the time of Adam & Eve when our 1 st parents committed original sin. No matter how much God tries to win us back to Him and how much we try to return, ultimately original sin means we are going to sin seriously and mess up. We need God’s grace and the 4 great virtues (Prudence or wisdom, justice, temperance and courage or fortitude) to be perfected in order to combat the effects of sin. Faith, hope and charity are supernatural. These are things that human beings would never know that they need or could have without God giving them supernaturally that’s why they are called the theological virtues. We only know about them through divine revelation and we couldn’t know about them by reason. We can only have them through God’s grace. The theological virtues, faith, hope and charity are the crown of the first 4 cardinal virtues that transform and make them possible. God doesn’t want us just to be whole human beings and res...