Fr. Bel R. San Luis, SVD
Need for more religious vocations
April 19, 2024 4:17 pm
Tomorrow is Good Shepherd Sunday. It is a day in the Catholic Church worldwide to focus attention on the religious vocations of priests, nuns and lay brothers, and to pray for more vocations.
When our faith is tested
April 13, 2024 1:19 am
In today’s gospel, we read about the third appearance of the Risen Lord to two disciples at Emmaus. The manifestations served to confirm and bolster the sagging faith of his close followers. They had doubts and misgivings if he was really the expected Messiah. “Did he really rise from the dead?” The appearances were important because they served as the bedrock of the faith of the early Christians.
Divine mercy, hope for sinners
April 05, 2024 4:04 pm
An SVD missionary in one of the Pacific Islands related how surprised he was one day to be visited in his parish by a woman carrying a handful of sand. “Do you know what this is?” she asked. “It looks like sand,” replied the missionary. “What does this all mean?”
Holy Saturday: Christ is the answer. What’s the question?
March 29, 2024 4:01 pm
In the vigil service of Holy Saturday tonight, Christians await the Lord as He comes forth from the tomb. The paschal candle symbolizes the Risen Christ dispelling the darkness of sin and death.
Wasted suffering or redemptive?
March 28, 2024 4:11 pm
There is a true story about a Russian general, the governor of a province in one of the former Soviet Republics.