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The story of David and Goliath is perhaps the most popular story in the entire Old Testament. I am sure everybody here knows the story. We know the characters, what happened and how it ended. And yet even when we…

There was one Saturday when there were so many people who came to Mass. The number was so great that the people standing reached all the way to the area in front of the lectern. The gospel then was about…

Not long ago, a friend of mine died and his son requested a vacation leave from work a week following his father’s burial. But his boss ordered him to return to work the day after the burial. Though this boss…

I beg You to pardon me, Jesus, for my arrogance. I ask You to pardon me for my cowardice in bearing witness to You. I beg You to forgive me for my refusal to forgive, for keeping grudges, for my…

Today in the first reading, we hear Paul doing what many of us like to do – criticize. Paul criticizes his fellow Jews. He confronts them about the hardness of their hearts, about their rejection of the Messiah and the…

Lord, you know how overwhelmed I am with the pains in my life. The world is so unfair to me. Everything in it is unfair to me. I am hurting inside and out, I am on the brink of giving…

Listening to the gospel account, we can actually give it this title: “The Cutter is Cut, The Questioner is Questioned.” Questions are a vital part of our day-to-day life. But we have so many reasons for asking questions. Some people…

It is God who initiates a loving relationship with us. “God loved us first,” John the Beloved says. It was God who loved us first not because He loved us in the past but because it is God who continues…

St. Bonaventure was the official biographer of St. Francis of Assisi. He was also a contemporary of St. Thomas Aquinas who is considered the most intelligent theology and philosophy professor of the Church for all times. St. Bonaventure was a…

Dear Jesus, I have so many sins I am so ashamed of: so many sins I am afraid would be exposed; so many sins that I tremble in fear to admit before anybody. But there is nothing I can hide…