Is it not presumptuous to suppose that the sprinkling of a little water can have a decisive effect on a person’s whole existence? Or the laying on of hands by the bishop that we call Confirmation? Or the annointing with holy oils by which the Church escorts a sick person on the last journey? ...
The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.” (Mt 9:37-38). I can still hear the loud voice in which the Holy Father proclaimed this message to the people assembled in the Theresienwiese, above all to the great number of...
Last May 18 would have been your 87th Birthday our beloved John Paul the Great. 12 years ago on the Parade Grounds of University of Santo Tomas, in Manila, where I was on my second year in college, you challenged us, the youth, with the most profound and deeply inspiring words that have always...
