Love Letters to Lukewarm Souls

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The Bible in a Year podcast is a gem for me. Like most of us in some big or small ways, I have been facing with some sort of a debilitating physical condition for the past several months now. Of course, there are a number of moments wherein I would fall into hopelessness and despair. Once again, hearing the word of God (thru the BIAY) reminds me and gives me a sense of comfort and pushes me to move forward despite and inspite of my personal circumstances. Like in chapter 43 of Isaiah. It's a long chapter but I will just give you the 1st 3 verses that I think in essence serves my point for today. Isaiah 43:1-3 But now thus says the Lord, he who created you, O Jacob,     he who formed you, O Israel: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you;     I have called you by name, you are mine. 2 When you pass through the waters I will be with you;     and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through...

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"My Nightly Examination of Conscience: A Prayer, Meditation, Examen & Gratitude Journal in One to Intentionally Cultivate Saintly Virtue, Grow in Holiness & Transform your Life Before Bedtime" is now available at Amazon. The only companion you'll need for your evening prayer, meditation, examen and gratitude journaling, all in one notebook!   Get a copy by clicking this link: https://amzn.to/3go5ti4 or click the image above.   This multi-purpose journal book is created with the following objectives in mind:   Contains only the necessary, useful, self-explanatory, and straightforward guided prayer prompts to get you started right off the bat and help you cultivate a more productive and efficacious prayer time and reflection to grow in your faith and holiness.   The format is inspired by the spiritual exercises and principles of St. Josemaria Escriva, St. Ignatius of Loyola, and Catholic contemporary Matthew Kelly. The Opening and Clo...

Taken from my community gathering exhortation (April 18, 2021). Edited for the purpose of this blog. I heard Fr. Mike Schmitz's Bible in a year (a.k.a. BIAY) is taking the podcast by storm. It started just this January of this year 2021. If you aren't familiar with Fr. Mike's BIAY podcast, basically each episode he would read a book or two from the Bible, chapters and verses based off of Jeff Cavin's Great Bible Adventure color-coded Bible reading plan or timeline as a guide, and then he would follow it up with a short commentary. Each episode runs around 20 minutes on average. In a few of Fr. Mike's commentaries after reading the book of Exodus, book of Numbers and Judges, he would mentioned Judah a few times. Judah was the 4th of the 12 sons of Jacob. The 12 sons of which the 12 tribes of Israel originated. If you are familiar with Joseph the dreamer, Judah is one of Joseph's older brothers. Anyway, I learned from Fr. Mike that the name Judah means "Pra...

This lenten season, it's a perfect time to try using Catholic apps to help organize and strengthen our interior need and Catholic faith. We are living in the modern era of digital tech, after all. Here's my top Catholic apps I am using that I hope you might like, or even love. In no particular order... ESCRIVA LITE If you are a St. Josemaria Escriva and Opus Dei fan like I am, this free app is for you. The app contains daily mass readings in a clean, bold, super organized, minimalist interface, with St. Escriva related excerpts according to the readings of that day, taken from his various books and homilies, which are a gem of St. Escriva freebies of wisdom. Get yours here on Apple or Google Play app links provided below.   DOWNLOAD Escriva Lite HERE: https://apple.co/3ssgId1 DOWNLOAD Escriva Lite Here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=appleia.com.escrivalite   GREAT CATHOLIC MUSIC Looking for all Catholic Songs, Hymns or Music? This non-stop, livest...

Written and posted last year on social media, February 24th, 2020. I was watching Voltron in Netflix with my son (and my wife too!) and was already on season 2. In its 2nd episode entitled "the Depths", there's a clip that shows a dialogue between Voltron's Blue Lion pilot and the jellyfish mer-people. The latter abducted the pilot in order to ask for his help to stop their alleged evil Mermaid Queen, because she was believed to be responsible for controlling and brainwashing their mer-men and merwomen's minds.  When the Voltron pilot asked them why weren't they brainwashed by the Queen like the others were, the jellyfish people told the hero that they are jellyfishes, they don't have brains, so you can't brainwash something you don't have. When I heard it, I said, well, that's a quotable quote if you come to think of it. I can't help but thought of some people I knew in social media (i.e., the Atheists/Agnostics) that say Chris...

In light of the recent sex scandal that surfaced around the late Ravi Zacharias,  one of the finest and respected modern Christian apologists of our times in the Protestant world,  I RAISE THIS ISSUE NOT BECAUSE to goad readers or shame Protestant pastors/leaders as bad people, as some do against Catholic clergies if it's the other way around. But this is simply my hope and invitation to Anti-Catholics (who, every now and then, frequently demonized the Catholic church for sex scandals, cover-ups, etc.) of how we are to logically ponder everything into perspective whenever these Christian sex scandals (Protestant or Catholic) arise in the news. What then do we as Christians make of this monstrosity? My own two cents is: 1. No matter what institution or organization we are in, as long as it is managed, governed, or run by Human Beings, sinfulness and bad apples always abound until the end of time. This is the reality of us men and women in a fallen world. This i...

This was an Advent talk I gave last year, December 2019, in a Christian Charismatic Community that I am a part of, e dited for the purpose of this blog. May it help you prepare your heart to Jesus this Christmas.  I was asked to share perhaps a personal reflection or insight as we approach this season of Advent. Well, before anything else, I must confess the past few months I've been feeling, as the saying goes, "down on my luck" lately. Work has been kind of slow, and discouraging. And it distressingly affects me emotionally and makes me lose interest in doing things. And so, as I pray on what the Holy Spirit wanted me to share to you as we prepare ourselves for the season of Advent given my said despondent disposition, I was reminded about the gift God had shown me during my 1st deeper conversion of faith back in high school many eons ago, that helps recollect my spirit in times such as these. And it's a timely reminder for me because it's also something we are ...