Month: May 2025

During the Last Supper, Jesus said, “I give you a new commandment: love one another. As I have loved you, so you should also love one another!” (John 13:34) This is mandatum novum in Latin, which means the mandate of love. It is a command, not an invitation nor a request. It is not a recommendation nor a suggestion. Ignoring …

Our Catholic Church is so blessed with the election of a new Pope, Leo XIV. And this historical event falls on the week leading to the Good Shepherd Sunday. God is so good giving us a new Shepherd. He is so gracious, a God of surprises. As a Good Shepherd, He provides, guides, liberates, saves and protects us always. The …

During this Easter season, God continues to reveal His generosity, infinite mercy, steadfast, excessive and extravagant love to us. He does not give up on us. He invites us to be witnesses of the miracle of Easter. This is because God’s love never ends and dies. He offers new life to us. That is why, when the apostles decided to …

Sister Faustina (1905-1938) was a young, uneducated nun in a convent of the Congregation of Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy in Poland during the 1930s. She came from a poor family that struggled during the years of World War I. She had only three years of simple education, so hers were the humblest tasks in the convent, usually in …

The word “Easter” comes from Old English, meaning simply the “East.” The sun which rises in the East, bringing light, warmth, and hope, is a symbol for the Christian of the rising Christ, who is the true Light of the world. The Paschal Candle used during the Easter Vigil is a central symbol of this divine light, which is Christ. …