Charism in a Year

The Roman Catholic Church has sounded the call to the New Evangelization. This is a very important prophetic call for the work of the third millennium. At stake is the very future of societies and even of the Church. How are we to respond? How are we to understand the call to the New Evangelization? How can the people of God, especially the laity, participate in the action of the Holy Spirit durin...

May the work of all Christians not only proclaim Christ and his salvation to the ends of the earth. May their work not only strengthen and help renew Christian families. May their work also make known the indispensable role and the critical importance of our Blessed Mother in God’s plan for the life of the world. May all the peoples of the earth honor and venerate her. May the words of her prophet...

At the start of this third millennium, we live in a world that continues to be battered by the onslaught of evil forces. There continues the massive murder of the innocents through abortion, unrelenting attacks on the family, the spread of criminality and corruption. On top of these, we face a radically changing world. Globalization threatens to widen the gap between the rich and the poor. Global...

At the start of this third millennium, we live in a world that continues to be battered by the onslaught of evil forces. There continues the massive murder of the innocents through abortion, unrelenting attacks on the family, the spread of criminality and corruption. On top of these, we face a radically changing world. Globalization threatens to widen the gap between the rich and the poor. Global...

The two most important aspects in the life of Christians are family and mission. Family is the foundation, and mission is the manifestation. From time immemorial, the family has been the subject of attack from evil forces. Today, the enemy has gone all out, and a tsunami of evil is upon the world. Can the family survive? The family must not only survive, but thrive. The key is a renewed understand...

What are we to make of the seeming paradoxes in the Christian life? * The first is last and the last is first. * There is victory in defeat. * There is glory in dishonor. * We are to rejoice in suffering. It is hard for the human mind to grasp the inscrutable ways of God. But to take on the mind of God is essential for our salvation. Jesus has shown us the way, and it is the way of the cross. We a...

El Camino de Santiago  (The Way of St James) has been an attraction for pilgrims for many centuries. It is one of three pilgrimages that have become important for Catholics, the other two being Jerusalem (the Holy Land) and the Vatican (Rome). St James is the James, who with his brother John and their mother Salome, sought to have places of honor at the right and the left of Jesus. Jesus then took...

YOU ARE DESTINED FOR GREATNESS! You are created in the image and likeness of God. You are made little lower than the angels. You are a child of God, a brother-servant of Jesus, and a warrior of the Spirit. God is depending on you for His divine work in the world. But like most Christians, you may not be fully aware of your true identity and destiny. You may be living an ordinary and uneventful lif...

Qoheleth II is back! Qoheleth II wrote Females Are Fabulous way back in 2003. Given the flak that he got from women, he had to go into hiding, in fear of his life. Now he has emerged. Having spent 14 years in solitude in his cave, he is older and wiser. He now surveys the landscape, and finds the war between men and women still raging, and even more fiercely, with the rise of radical feminism. Baf...

An Exciting Discovery from Antiquity In 1947 Ta‘amire Bedouins made an amazing discovery in a cave on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea in Palestine. In clay jars were manuscripts and portions of manuscripts. These were what eventually came to be known as the Dead Sea Scrolls. Unknown to the world however was the discovery in a nearby cave of another scroll, found in a container that could have...

Mary is the one closest to Jesus. She gave birth to him, nurtured him, and was with him all the way to the cross, and beyond. Among all humans, she knows the Savior best. She spent the most number of years with him. She drank of his wisdom. She is the model disciple. She is co-Redemptrix. She is the Queen of heaven and earth. Mary always points us to her Son Jesus. And Mary always tells us, “Do wh...

The world is in a mess. Where is God? Does God care about what is happening in the world? Is there hope for humanity? The truth is that God has acted, and continues to act, to manifest His love for the world. God desires to bring His people back to Himself, as a Shepherd with His flock, as a Father with His children. But how God intends to do this is a great mystery, in that it involves you and me...

Do you see the Christian life as uninteresting or even boring? Is it seemingly only about trying to be a goody-goody, and being consigned to the sidelines as the world, with all its excitement, passes by? If so, you have been deceived. The true Christian life is the greatest adventure in the world. It proposes the highest ideals, the most exhilarating challenges, the ultimate self-fulfillment. Unf...

The term “servant leader” is seemingly an oxymoron. To the human understanding, the words “servant” and “leader” are diametrically opposed. But with God that is not the case. In the kingdom of God, the leader is the one who serves. It is important for those who are called to servant leadership to understand what this call is all about. This is because God is entrusting them with a great treasure....

The Church, in particular her lay members, is called to the New Evangelization. This is a crucial prophetic call during these challenging times in the life of the world. In order to respond to the call, we must understand what it all means. The people of God need to see the intimate connection among the Holy Spirit, the New Evangelization, and Pentecost. One cannot do without the others. The three...

In these dark times today, a tsunami of evil is overwhelming the whole world. The forces of the enemy are advancing rapidly, threatening to bring down Judeo-Christian life and values throughout the earth. When Jesus returns, will he find just a small flock? This is a call to arms. The spiritual war rages in the heavens and on earth. It is a fight to the death, with souls as the ultimate prize. Wil...

The basic call to Christians in the world is to be holy as God is holy. Unfortunately, many Christians do not understand what this call is all about. It is not just being a good person. It is much more. To be holy is to be set apart. It is to set aside the wisdom of the world and take on the foolishness of God. As light is in contrast to darkness, as life is in contrast to death, so does one who i...

The Catholic Church has issued the call to the New Evangelization in this Year of Faith. But what is the New Evangelization? What is to be done? To discover the new, we look to the old. Evangelization by the people of God started on the day of Pentecost. We must recover the basic principles by which God intended evangelization to be done. And we must have the faith that works wonders. Our proper r...

Many Christians today are unaware of God’s call to them to participate in the work of evangelization. Some Christians may be aware but are ignorant as to how to go about this work. Still others try to do their share but are often frustrated and discouraged by their weakness and failures. But the work of evangelization is at the heart of being a true Christian. Evangelization is the practical livin...

There is a raging brutal war in the world today, inflicting hundreds of millions of casualties. It is the war against the unborn. It is a continuing holocaust against the most innocent and defenseless of persons, the child in the womb. But it is not only the unborn that are targeted by the dark forces waging this war. It actually is a war against faith, family and life. It is an assault against so...

The early Church did a massive work of evangelization, accompanied by signs and wonders, and the Church grew. But today many Catholics have been lost to the world and to cults and sects. Today there is much weakness in the Roman Catholic Church, at a time when the enemy is savagely assaulting faith, family and life. It is thus that the call to the New Evangelization has been sounded. It is a proph...

The world is in darkness. A tsunami of evil is upon us. Things are going from bad to worse. Is there hope? Yes, there is hope, because there is Christ and his Church. Jesus said, “I am the light of the world.” (Jn 8:12). Then he says, “You are the light of the world.” (Mt 5:14). It is up to God’s people to dispel the darkness of evil and sin by bringing God’s light to shine upon the earth. But we...

We are called to holiness and discipleship. These do not just happen. They require the grace of God, the power of the Spirit, and our own effort. God does tell us what we need to do. We for our part obey, and live out God’s ways with consistency, persistence and discipline. We do these not just some of time, but all of the time. Always. We are to be 24/7 for Jesus.

Have you ever wondered what certain difficult or challenging passages in the Bible meant? * Do not be anxious at all about life. * Renounce all your possessions. * Love your enemies. * Turn the other cheek. * Rejoice in suffering. * Pray without ceasing. * Be perfect as the heavenly Father is perfect.   Have you ever desired to be the person that God intends you to be? The times are urgent for the...

For 2010, God brought CFC-FFL to a very challenging book for its theme for the year. This is the book of Job. It is challenging because the book of Job is about the great affliction of a man who was blameless and upright. Having come from the book of Lamentations for the year 2007, when CFC experienced a crisis and then split into two, what could God have in store for His faithful remnant? Now, ju...