Word Alive

  A PRIEST-FRIEND related to me how he tried to grapple men­tally with a skeptical parishioner who had doubts about...

  SOMEBODY quipped, “At his fu­neral, an atheist (non-believer) is all dressed up but nowhere to go.” Part of the...

  IN a street accident, a lady doctor tried to help the victim but sudden­ly a nurse came in and...

  ONE Sunday morning after say­ing Mass at the Sacred Heart Church in Kamuning, Quezon City, a couple approached me...

  A PRIEST, visiting a remote village chapel, delivered a 30-minute sermon on “Gratitude.” At the con­clusion of the sermon,...

  DID you know that long before the soft drink Coke was ever produced, the Bible had already a commercial...

  TODAY, September 29, is National Seafarers Sunday. According to the office of the Apostleship of the Sea in Manila...

  DID you know that graft and corruption already existed during the time of Christ? The parable of the shrewd...

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

  TODAY, September 8, is the birthday of Mama Mary. It is also the 144th Foundation An­niversary of the Society...

  THERE’S an amusing fable about a smart dog who talk­ed out his two friend-ducks to fly him from north...

  A STORY is told about a good and devout Catholic baran­gay chairman who died and off he went to...

  ONE day, a father bought lot­to tickets on his way home and distributed them to his fam­ily members, including...

  ONCE there was a chronic gam­bler who said: “I would do any­thing, even the devil’s work, to see the...

  A SMALL boy praying in church said loudly: “Lord, bigyan ako…cheeseburger, French fries, apple pie, strawberry shake, diet coke…”...

  IN the gospel of this 16th Sun­day, we can discern two forms of spirituality as symbolized by the two...