Your Kind of Beauty

What Women in Ministry Can learn from Marowe sanchez

Lydia's Purple

How women can help Build God's kingdom

The Gift of Centering Prayer

Your life might be swirling around right now like a typhoon, but what makes a storm powerful? A calm, peaceful eye. A center. Do you have a center in your relationship with the Father? God lives within you and He wants you to be at rest.

The Way You Look at Yourself

The amazing wedding band played the Frank Sinatra song “The Way You Look Tonight” as the bride and groom were having their first dance.

Loving Your Liver

Last week, my mom went on a staycation with a group of friends in a hotel in Manila.

Relying on God too Much?

Many years ago, I was giving a retreat to a bunch of college women.

How to Become Self-Motivated for Work in 4 Simple Steps

Do you hate work? Are you struggling to be motivated?Oh, how we love weekends! We get to spend time with family and friends, and do some service for church or community.

Four Biblical Women Worth emulating

The world we live in today is very confusing. Society dictates a lot on us so we can become acceptable to the world around us.

Beads of grace

How Praying the rosary became a Channel of blessing and Grace in My life

A Shrine's Dream Come True After a Leap of Faith

Would you believe that a church’s fundraising campaign can raise four million pesos in two months time? This was the leap of faith of Fr. Ronald M. Macale, rector and parish priest of St. Joseph Shrine under the Diocese of Cubao.

The Road to Easter

Hallelujah is our song

The Ministry of Friendship

I’ve never had a priest friend before,” a college student once told me. I cherish working with college students because I was once like them.

Spiritual Sight

I had an amusing conversation with an old friend from high school. She went back to what we learned in science class about how our eyes see. We see as soon as light comes into our eyes. We have photoreceptors at the back of our eyes called rods and cones. Cones are color-sensitive and rods are light-sensitive. They process what comes into our eyes and transmit this information through the optic nerve to our brain. I thought it was simply an interesting trivia.

So You Don't Like Your First Job?

1985 was a trying year for the Philippines. Senator Ninoy Aquino had been assassinated two years before. Our country was in the midst of a political turmoil. There was public unrest all around. Companies were jittery with our situation. The economy was on a standstill.

Peter's Road to Easter— And It Could Be Ours, Too

Have you ever made a big mistake in your life? Have you ever made six really big mistakes in your life—and now when you look back on them, you’re so embarrassed that you want to cringe? What makes it worse is that somebody else knows about it and they remind you of those mistakes.

Dead Ends, New Beginnings

When God Writes Your love story

Admitting ‘I'm Not OK' Is Self-Care

Before the end of 2019, a lot of things happened to me on the home front. I knew I was wearing myself out as I had a very challenging year. Then December came. On top of the expected busyness of the Christmas season, there was work, my kids, my helper going on a month-long vacation, and my husband getting sick. Each day brought crying sprees, emotional battles, and couple discussions as I carried on with my work or chores.

True or False: God Won't Give You What You Can't Handle

How do you view suffering? Do you see it as a test from God? I know many people, especially Christians, who love saying to a suffering friend, “It’s OK. You will be OK. God won’t give something you can’t handle. God is just testing you. Pagsubok lang ’yan!” It’s a statement we love making with the beautiful intention of encouraging the other person remain steadfast in the face of trials.

Cling to Jesus

The Ultimate Easter Challenge

5 Tips to Breeze Through Lent in Style

When you hear the word Lent, the first thing that you usually think of is sacrifice. During biblical times, those who fasted neglected their appearance to call attention to their good deeds. So Jesus said in Matthew 6:18 that these sacrifices have to be made in secret and not announced to the world—“so that it will not be obvious to others that you are fasting, but only to your Father, who is unseen; and your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.”

Popes of the Post Conciliar Era

Much confusion arose in the Church after Vatican II. Ultraconservatives openly expressed reservations while progressives felt reforms weren’t enough. Consequently, the recalcitrant misconstrued the Council’s reforms and spread misconceptions.

Journey, Grow, and Rise Together

Our marriage vows aren’t just words we recite during the wedding ceremony. We vowed to love our partners for better or for worse. The vow doesn’t end on your honeymoon, but it starts there. They’re easy to keep when you’re both happy and things are going well. But how do you maintain that kilig with your spouse when you’re in your worse moments? We realized that getting married and staying married are two different things. To stay married, you have to remember to stick together for better or for worse.

Not Left Behind

The Celebration Before the Answered Prayer

How to raise Young Millionaires using their Allowance

There are two basic schools of thought about giving allowance to children. One is to make the children work for it in order to earn it. The other one is to just give it to them on a regular basis with little or no conditions, depending on the agreement between parents and children. Some prefer to do a combination of the two.

In the Hiding and the Highlands

What I learned from My Social Media break

This is the day!

A Wedding in Cana after fourteen Years of Marriage

Give Love, Receive Love

The Path to Grace-filled relationships

Continue to Be ‘smugglers of the faith'

Pope Francis to the Filipino Community During the Simbang Gabi at the Vatican:

Cardinal Tagle Moves to the Vatican

The Archbishop’s Final Moments with the Church in Manila

A Father's Love

I remember how my father was very strict with me and my siblings while we were growing up. We had to be home before he arrived from work. So as a child, when I’d see his car coming and I was still on the street playing with my friends, I would run as fast as I could to reach our house first.