Angels in America: Exploring the widespread belief in celestial beings
Compared with the devil, angels carry more credence in America.
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Compared with the devil, angels carry more credence in America.
Major religions teach that life exists after death. How that afterlife is spent—whether in eternal bliss, limbo or damnation—depends on the person’s morality during his lifetime.
THE New York Times, bastion of liberal opinion, published an article that by 2060 minorities will be the majority in America. So, it seemed that Americans should extend a warm welcome to newcomers who may be welcoming their posterity into a country changed into the newcomers’ image.
From feast days back to the Ordinary Time of the year, the liturgy of the Church brings us to the beginning of the public ministry of Jesus, summarizing his preaching and detailing the call of the first disciples (Matthew 4:12-23).
THE Feast of the Santo Niño every third Sunday of January is proper to the Philippines. In a way, it is a Filipino extension of the Christmas season, even as it reflects our deeply ingrained love for children, which here, in the light of the Gospel, becomes a medium for our spiritual growth and maturity (Matthew 18:1-5, 10).
Epiphany, as a tradition older than our celebration of Christmas, is the feast of divine manifestation and of human discovery. It identifies the purpose of the human birth of the Son of God (Matthew 2:1-12). The story of the wise men from the east concretizes the light that shines forth to liberate those in the shadow of darkness.
Joseph and Mary were there for each other and the two of them for the Child to be born (Luke 2:1-14). Christmas is for the whole family, and so for the entire nation, a most important celebration highlighting the defining role of each one toward the communion that is our future.
By Corazon Damo-Santiago
They say life is short. How do you want to live life to the fullest? Do you want to live for 969 years like Methuselah, or just a few seconds and die? Why did God allow us to live and die?
AS the principal patroness of the Philippines, Mary’s Immaculate Conception is aptly celebrated as a holy day of Eucharistic joy. Our thanksgiving to God for gifting us with her faith and love is inspired by the Annunciation account of Saint Luke (1:26-38), where Mary is portrayed as the woman divinely chosen to be filled with grace as the mother of the Savior.
At the beginning of a new liturgical year and as we start again with Year A in the three-year cycle of our readings from Sacred Scripture, we are reminded of the imperative of repetition if we, human beings, are to grow and mature. The pedagogical necessity is clear not only in the emphasis we need in order to recognize and focus on what we should pay attention to, but also in our natural requirement, both bodily and spiritually, that we can take in only so much at any given time. Repetition contains the promise and the hope that the next time will be more fruitful and effective. Opening the new liturgical year is the call once again to preparedness (Matthew 24:36-44).
By Corazon Damo-Santiago
“The quality of mercy is not strain’d
By Corazon Damo-Santiago
THE “Divine Being” by whatever name or identity you choose to believe seems to be taking a more active role in the Philippines lately. No, this is not thoughts on the All Saints’ Day holiday and traditions.
Bless the Lord, for He is merciful and good to all; He raises up those who are bowed down (Psalm 145:1-2, 8-9, 10-11, 13-14). God’s gentle and loving compassion seeks out the lost and makes them welcome and gives them joy (Luke 19:1-10).
HE was flayed alive—the skin of his body cut into strips, then pulled off, leaving his body open and bleeding for a long time, then beheaded, wrote Fr. Paolo O. Pirlo, SHML, in My First Book of Saints.
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