During this Lenten season, let us pray by looking at the Crucified Lord. Let us open our hearts to the touching tenderness of God, and in his wounds place our own wounds and those of our world. ( Pope Francis @Pontifex)

Lent is a journey of healing, to live each day with a renewed spirit, a different “style”. Prayer, charity and fasting are aids to this: they restore us to a living relationship with God, our brothers and sisters, and ourselves. (Pope Francis @Pontifex)

Lent is like a long “retreat” in which we can turn back into ourselves and listen to God’s voice in order to overcome the temptations of the Evil One and to find the truth of our existence.— Benedict XVI

Thousands of people were badly affected by the typhoon Odette last December 16, 2021. It brought destructions to many families, homes, livelihoods and properties in some parts of Visayas and Mindanao particularly in Surigao del Norte. My family, friends and relatives were victims of the wrath of the super typhoon. Three weeks after, I went…

Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth. Worship the LORD with gladness; come before him with joyful songs. Know that the LORD is God. It is he who made us, and we are his ; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture. Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with…