The algorithm of what’s happening in the world today: Faith - Vulnerability or Mystery = Extremism. Brene Brown It’s when we use our faith/religion as our main mouthpiece— a way to bulldoze and bully other people’s beliefs that we do what goes against religion in its most basic essence. Religion, I was told in high … Continue reading Religion as Religare
Who
From a homily given last 15 Sept 2012by Fr. Jet Villarin, SJ A young novice once asked his superior why there were so many leaving their order. The superior replied that those who left were like hounds that were hot on the trail of a rabbit. Many of these joined the hunt because they were … Continue reading Who
From the Already Good to the Really Better
by Eric Santillan One of my batchmates when I entered the Jesuits in 1999 is a guy named Lito Ocon. Lito is one of my closest friends and he was ordained several years ago. He's now the Chaplain of the Philippine General Hospital, the hospital in the centre of the fight against COVID 19 in … Continue reading From the Already Good to the Really Better
#75: How to Sustain Hope
I will not say so much as an introduction. Spend the next 12 minutes with this video, use this as prayer, pause for awhile and let Brendon Burchard's words sink in, write your reflections, and end your time of prayer with your favorite memorized prayer. Have a blessed hope-filled day! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY9lNNXbsv4
#63: And the Greatest of These is Love
1 corinthians 13:1-13 If I speak in the tongues of men and angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal. And if I have prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am … Continue reading #63: And the Greatest of These is Love
#50: Shifting Sands
Faith and reason has always been and will always remain a tension in our lives, specially in this world of scientific exploration and technological advance. There is grace in the tension of faith and reason: when we don't use reason, we water down faith—it becomes blind, uninformed, naive. But when all we use is reason, … Continue reading #50: Shifting Sands
#9: In the Hands of God
Pedro Arrupe composed this prayer after he suffered a debilitating stroke, the effects of which he patiently endured for the final ten years of his life. Try to say this prayer truthfully today. Is it difficult or easy to pray? In the Hands of God by Pedro Arrupe, SJ More than ever I find myself … Continue reading #9: In the Hands of God
Risk
When I was about four years old, my parents reminded me, my aunt once gave me a robot. Actually I do remember the robot. It could walk and had these little red missiles on its back. I remember it because it scared me. It must have been the robotic way it walked and the weird … Continue reading Risk
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