I remember I once visited a kindergarten where a group of children came to me to say “hello”, gathered around me, held my legs, laughed loudly and happily. A characteristic of children is that they follow their own...
We are constantly sizing up each other, rating bodies, hair, intelligence, clothing, talents and achievements. As we rate, we become unhealthily depressed when others outscore us and unhealthily inflated when we appear superior to them.
The enigma separating us from...
John the Baptist’s message was “Repent,” but it wasn’t repent the way we think about it. The way we think about repentance is you come down on your knees and bang your head on...
Today is the first day of Advent, it is also the beginning of the liturgical year. We must have new expectations for the new beginning. There are double aspects of Advent: firstly, it is to prepare for Christmas - in memory...
Pope Francis loves and venerates Saint Joseph. On his desk is a statue of Saint Joseph in his dream. In the Bible, St. Joseph always dreams and receives guidance from God to solve his problems in life. The Pope says...
Time flies, I have been to St. Agnes K.Y. Tsao Parish for one full year. I remember when I first stepped into St. Agnes Church last November, it was time for the Saturday 4:30 p.m. vigil mass...
"The general Message of Fatima is not complicated. Its requests are for prayer, reparation, repentance, and sacrifice, and the abandonment of sin. Before Our Lady appeared to the three shepherd children, Lucy, Francisco and Jacinta, the Angel of Peace visited...
The phrase "I believe in the Holy Catholic Church" had entangled me for quite a while before I joined the seminary until I came to understand that the foundation of the Church is Jesus Christ. How could such an imperfect...
Do you not know, my daughter, that all the sufferings the soul bears or can bear in this life are not enough to punish one smallest sin? For an offense against me, infinite Good, demands infinite satisfaction. So I want...
St John Damascene defined prayer as “the raising of one’s mind and heart to God or the requesting of good things from God.”
In today’s gospel, Jesus tells us to pray always without becoming...