Father Soc

I was looking for some important personal documents one day when I chanced upon some old photos. I was struck by how much weight I have put on since my days as a seminarian. Strikingly, we never really notice how…

I was sitting in a seminar room one day, attending a workshop, and the facilitator suddenly asked us, “How many of you here have a relationship?” My initial understanding of the question kept my hands down while I saw the…

Sitting at a dinner party table, a young mother lamented over her three-year-old we, who has been giving her quite a headache. Apparently, the child had resorted to all kinds of pranks, which really annoyed the mother to no end.…

An American friend of mine defined a multilingual as somebody who speaks many languages. A bilingual person is somebody who speaks two languages. What do you call somebody who speaks only one language? American. The need to speak a common…