WORD ALIVE FR. BEL SAN LUIS, SVD There’s an old saying which goes, "If at first you don't succeed, try and try again." (By the way, this doesn't apply to committing suicide!). That was just what the Canaanite woman did in the gospel of this 20th Sunday. She kept on pestering the Lord to the point...
WORD ALIVE The gospel story for this 19th Sunday relates about our Lord walking on water. Somebody joked that he did this because he could not afford the exorbitant fare charged by the profiteering boat owners! * * * When Jesus was walking on the Sea of Galilee at about three o'clock before dawn,...
WORD ALIVE There’s an amusing story about two parish priests discussing about how they share the Sunday collection with their assistant priests. "That's easy," the younger priest said. "I simply draw a big...
WORD ALIVE Nanding B. was making good as a high-ranking executive of a giant beverage company in Makati. After many years of service, his friends and office mates were astounded when he quit his high-paying job to work fulltime in the charismatic renewal apostolate he was serving. * * * He needed...
WORD ALIVE A professor in a college English class said to his students, "If you will just take a new word and use it 100 times, it will be yours forever." Whereupon, a young woman in the class looked dreamily out of the window and sighed, "Piolo, Piolo, Piolo...." * * * Jesus' parables have been...
WORD ALIVE A distraught man approaches a priest and asks: “Please bless me, Father, because my son is a drug addict, my daughter an unwed mother, and my wife a gambler. The priest already tired of listening, says: Brother, isn’t there anything positive in your life? The man replies: Me,...
WORD ALIVE FR. BEL SAN LUIS, SVD A story is told about a Franciscan, a Jesuit, and an SVD who paid homage to the Christ Child in Bethlehem. The Franciscan was interested in the manger to serve as reminder of the poverty and simplicity their order professed. * * * The Jesuit was more interested to...
