Attaining Union with God thru the Holy Eucharist

        In today's Gospel reading from Matthew 9, people brought to Jesus a paralytic lying on a stretcher. When Jesus saw their faith, ...

        We being human who serve the Lord often like to measure our success by looking to see if anything has happened due to our effort. Bu...

        Our days on earth are numbered. We become more aware of it as we age and our health starts to deteriorate. Then I thought of heaven....

        God is infinite, while we are finite. God knows everything, while we know practically nothing. It goes without saying that if we go ...

        In today's Gospel reading from Matthew 16, Jesus asked his disciples, "Who do people say that the Son of Man is?" They...

        Today is the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles. In the first reading from Acts 12, we hear how Herod imprisoned Peter and...

        If you are truly ready to return to the Lord at any time, you are ready for anything in this life.  

        We all know that we are going to die, yet so many of us live as if we are not ever going to die? We know that we can never find true...

        To have faith in something is to believe in that something, and you can have myriad different faiths. But there is only one faith th...

to prepare to meet our God.

        Just saying or reciting some prayer perfunctorily is not prayer at all. Prayer must originate from the heart; so true prayer is reve...

        We are all sinners. Living in this secular world with so many temptations, it is easy to serve mammon and live for ourselves with no...

        We celebrate many things such as recovery from an illness, success of a business venture, graduation of our children from schools, o...

        This is almost common sense. If I stick with God, follow and obey him, then I, my soul, is completely safeguarded by him. I'll b...

        In today's Gospel reading from Luke 9, Jesus gave this message to anyone who wishes to follow him: " No one who sets a hand...

         I still remember my early days as a Christian, I had doubts about God's existence since I didn't feel it, about whether pra...

         I realize that I am far from being perfect. There are many (involuntary) things about myself I don't like (this is not saying t...

        When we realize that we are sinners and have offended God, we feel sorry and repent our sins to God and ask him to forgive us, and h...