Family Occasions, Speaking Heart to Heart

November 25, 2025 Bountifulness, Beneficence, Bigheartedness   Hello! How is each and every one?  Last Sunday we celebrated the Solemnity of Christ the King. He wants to reign over the whole of our life. He should reign, first of all, in our hearts.   He should reign in our life, because everything about it should be a witness to love.   With our mistakes!   Don’t let mistakes worry you; I make them too.   With our weaknesses! As long as we struggle, they don’t matter.   Didn’t the saints now on the altars also make mistakes?   But mistakes that fall within our human condition. The kind of mistakes at which our Lord must smile:   Playing before him at all times, playing all over the world, Scripture says.   That’s how I often see myself before our Lord [St. Josemaria, Med 1.4, Solemnity of Christ the King (1)] I now recall the anecdote about Alexander the Great and the beggar.  I searched for the anecdote but it did not seem ...

  November 18, 2025 Hello!   How is each and every one? Simply amazing! The truth is what has been coming to my head while preparing this post were the words of our Lord to Peter when there was a storm at sea and the apostles saw Jesus walking on the lake they were terrified and cried out in fear ‘It is a ghost’.   Jesus called out to them and said, ‘Courage!   It is I! Do not be afraid.’ Providentially today’s Mass Gospel proper of the Dedication of the Basilicas of Saints Peter and Paul is precisely Mt 14: 22-23; t he same episode of the turbulent storm at sea.  Last Wednesday, the 12 th of November, I received these beautiful photos of Aurora Borealis as seen from Duluth, MN by my friend, Mariluz. The aurora borealis or Northern Lights, is a natural light display in the Earth’s northern sky caused by charged particles from the sun colliding with atoms of oxygen and nitrogen in the upper atmosphere. These collisions cause the gases to emit light, r...

  November 11, 2025 Hello!  How is each and every one?  Thank you, Lord of all Creation, for your ever provident care of your beloved children.  We prayed like crazy, I did, every time persons around me break news about the typhoon, I pray, my default is to pray and to trust in the Lord as He always knows best. I will not hesitate to say that while they watched Korean film, I prayed a rosary of memorares at the same time on the same night the siren alarmed its warning. Then came the news applauding the Sierra Madre for breaking the typhoon.  God has His ways.  That is why wisdom tells us to always trust in Divine Providence. ‘Waste’ your words in prayer and not in complaints and lamentations after attending to all the precautionary measures manageable. Following is the excerpt that concludes this super important superhabit of self-discipline (From  SUPERHABITS, The Universal System for a Successful Life by Andrew V. Abela, PH.D., Dean, Busch School o...