Attaining Union with God thru the Holy Eucharist

        Communion experience. I wanted Jesus to take complete hold of me because I knew that's how I could become free.

        We should never let any experience we encounter within or without the church, good or bad, pleasant or otherwise, make us ever forg...

        Compared to eternity, our life span is so brief as to be practically nonexistent. We only need to believe in God, specifically the ...

        From Reading 1 from Jeremiah 1 at Mass, "The word of the LORD came to me, saying: Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, ...

        When I saw how much my second son loved his newborn daughter, I realized God did create us in his image and we "learned" ...

        Appreciate God's mercy and you'll always be hopeful.

        In today's Gospel reading from Mark 4 at Mass, we heard the calming of a storm at sea. Jesus was asleep in the stern of a boat ...

        Today's sad news is that more people starved to death in the besieged Syrian town of Madaya. The UN says some 400,000 people ar...

        Scientists try to figure out how our universe came about. If we exclude God, we do not even know how we first came about. So we hav...

        Even after we've found God or attained union with him, the yearning for him continues. I believe it's because we are still ...

        In today's Gospel reading from Mark 4, Jesus compares the kingdom of God to a mustard seed. Once this smallest of all the seeds...

        In Christianity, we believe that God came down to earth, sacrificed himself on the cross so that we may have everlasting life with ...

        My sons have grown up, but I still remember that when they still lived with me, I instinctively protected them from all harm and al...

        It's easy to get upset when things don't work out right for us, and life is full of such instances. Sometimes we tend to a...

        "All is vanity except to love God and serve God alone" (Thomas à Kempis, Imitation of Christ ). To live not doing God...

        In today's Gospel reading from Mark 3, Jesus said, "Whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother....

        Today is the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul, Apostle. Before his conversion, Paul zealously persecuted followers of Jesus. Her...

        God knows everything about you and can detect the minutest insincerity in you. Examine your conscience to see how much you conceal ...