Word Alive

One Sunday morning after saying Mass at the Sacred Heart Church in Kamuning some years ago, a couple approached me,...

Gloria had no money to buy her food supply. After she had eaten the last slice of bread, she knelt...

I remember a young man who entered the seminary. He went through high school and college but found after much...

Did you know that long before Coke was produced, the Bible had already a commercial on it? The “ad” goes:...

Both the rich man and Lazarus die. Their fortunes are completely reversed. Lazarus is now enjoying the higher position. He...

DID you know that graft and corruption already existed during Christ’s time? The parable of the shrewd manager which is...

Japan will step up its activity in the contested South China Sea through joint training patrols with the United States...

"A FACE that only a mother can love,” so goes an old dictum. With God, that should be rephrased thus:...

"If anyone comes to me without turning his back on his father and mother, his wife and children, he cannot...

A Japanese tourist was riding a taxi cab around Manila. He said: “This Toyota you’re driving…made in Japan. Very fast.”...

Some years ago, I served as a chaplain to a group of pilgrims to the Holy Land. Among the destinations...

The gospel message of this 20th Sunday is puzzling. In one part of the Scriptures, Jesus Christ promises peace: “I...

An American SVD missionary who worked for many years in Abra then transferred to the Divine Word College of Laoag...