Word Alive

Today is Good Shepherd Sunday. It is a day in the Catholic Church worldwide to focus attention on vocations to...

At dawn of March 18, 1994, the day my late father was to be interred, I was awakened at four...

To see is to believe” goes a familiar dictum. This “show-me-first” attitude can imply a practical hard-headedness or lack of...

There’s a story about a young man who visited a seminary. On the walls of the corridors and bulletin boards...

In basketball, a player is hailed as a hero when he commits a few errors and makes points during crucial...

That is why when Jesus’ impending death was approaching, his close followers could not understand why he would suffer terribly...

“Create him not,” said the angel of Justice. “For he will commit all kinds of wickedness against his fellowman; he...

In most stories of the gospel, Jesus Christ is depicted as a gentle, kind, compassionate man. However, in one incident...

A patient, who was being wheeled into the operating room, pleaded with the young doctor: “Doc, ple…please be gentle with...

A teen-aged son asked his father at what age temptation to women disappears. The father replied, “At my age, son,...

Once a jeepney was passing in front of a leprosarium. Two patients, though cured already but still bore physical deformities,...

He was startled when the Lord suddenly spoke from the cross: “Alright, stop crying now. I know how you feel....

The Bible should not be read only when we are already elderly or are in the “pre-departure area” but rather...

Today is the feast of the Sto. Niño in the Philippines. The feast is immensely popular among Filipinos. Rich and...

Some years ago I celebrated the culminating Mass of a two-day Life in the Spirit Seminar (LSS) of the Loved...

A story is told about a Franciscan, a Jesuit, and an SVD who paid homage to the Christ Child in...