Fr. Rolando V. De La Rosa, OP
Make a difference through kindness
December 21, 2024 10:37 pm
During the 2013 Miss World competition, Megan Young’s mother was asked: “What is the biggest piece of advice that you gave your daughter?” Without hesitation, she replied: “I told her to be kind.” She added: “Megan, if you win the crown, go around the world and spread that kindness in your heart. You will never go wrong with kindness.”
The wrong question
December 14, 2024 4:01 pm
Many still think that when Christ was born, everything changed. It did not. What it brought was a promise of radical transformation that can only be realized when we actively cooperate with God’s initiative. The problem, however, is that we tend to understand such “cooperation” in terms of what we should do. We are like the Jews in our Gospel reading, who, after hearing St. John the Baptist’s preaching, asked, “What should we do?” (Luke 3:10-18).
Something we should not delay
December 08, 2024 12:04 am
When was the last time you felt truly sorry for having done something wrong? Was the remorse so intense that you made a sincere confession, promised to do better, and performed some form of penance or restitution?
Life comes without warning
December 01, 2024 3:33 pm
“Death comes without warning" is a statement that often makes us uncomfortable. The notion that death can strike unexpectedly challenges our belief that we are masters of our fate, not its victims. Also, we desire a peaceful existence that unfolds in an orderly way. We do not want death to disrupt it, so we bury thoughts of our mortality deep within our minds, hoping they will not crawl out to disturb us.
Overcoming doomsday fears
November 16, 2024 4:03 pm
Today's Gospel reading discusses the end of the world (Mark 13:24-32). Throughout history, numerous doomsday theories have predicted when this event would occur, with perhaps the most controversial being Dec. 21, 2012—the date many believed cataclysmic events would destroy the world as we know it. This idea was popularized by the movie "2012," which depicted the collapse of human civilization through violent volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, and other natural disasters.