Inspirations at your Fingertips!

In a few hours, we shall be celebrating The Solemnity of Christ's Birth.  As parish priest, I feel truly honored to share this mystery and prepare the People of God to this great meeting.  Because of this, a great responsibility has dawned upon me and I would like to ask for your prayers and blessings. God must have wanted us to prepare so much to the detail so that we who receive Jesus and the world may finally obtain the salvation we are seeking for.  That is why there is the vigil mass, the midnight mass, the dawn mass, and the day mass. In the mystery of Jesus' birth, we hope to also be born in him; for God's judgement in us to be changed from "forsaken" or "abandoned" to "Delight" and "wedded".  Right this moment we shall be wedded to God. In the gospel of the vigil mass, let us recall the family lineage of Jesus because we are part of that one family that existed ever since the beginning of time.  All we have to do is to a...

As we approach Christmas, everything is in place … heaven is gearing up for its ultimate preparation before the definitive coming of Jesus Christ.  Have we also prepared enough? In Isaiah, people who following God are greater in number and force, as in the barren as compared to the wedded.  Widowhood and barrenness are no more.  The Lord God comes in His glory.  His love never ends. In the gospel according to Luke, he invites us to take a closer look at the manifestations of Christ in the world today.  Where is the messiah except in the least of all which is the greatest in the kingdom of God?  Jesus allows himself to be the "least" in the kingdom to show us that even the greatest in this world has to power over him. It is time to break the world we have created for ourselves.  It is time to let Christ in and to let His work be ours and His cause, our cause.  It is time to start with the smallest and the weakest and come up teeming with life in...

The vigil mass this Christmas commences as a preparation for what is to come: the solemn feast of the birth of the Lord. Thus, this is still a time that is coming, and it is filled with hope that the kingship of the Lord will dawn upon us. What does it mean to celebrate the kingship of the Lord? First, it is movement from sin to grace through repentance - the recovery of the grace lost by original sin; we thus should be empowered to do good and rid ourselves of evil. Second, it is a movement from death to life - this should be very evident in the way we practice our faith - with zeal and passion. Not just a set of practices, Church life should enliven us to be more aggressive in the work of salvation. Third, it is a movement from selfishness to selflessness in God - It is not I who live, but Christ who lives in me; that Christ who is King above all kings; a Christ who rules my life and brings order into it. Let Christ be our only motivation to live.