As Catholics, we should have the desire to be saints. But how do we do it? One may think that it’s extremely difficult to become a saint, but let us just follow St. Therese’s method, sanctifying each day in the little things. Here is a list of things to keep in mind to make becoming [...]
We all know people – in fact you may be one of those people – who live for the weekend. Every work place has people who function like countdown clocks perennially sharing the news of how much time is left before Friday rolls around. Mondays are the most painful day of the week because it [...]
One of the rather frequent conversation topics I’ve participated in has to do with dealing with anxiety about the future. In particular I’ve talked with a number of soon-to-be doctorates and professionals who confess a particular anxiety about what life will be like post-graduation. When one considers how life has worked up till that point [...]
Imagine living in a desert of burning sand. Sand so hot that any hotter it turns to glass. Now imagine that scorching drops of fire fall from the sky and the only way to escape these fiery flakes is to continue running. Now imagine that this episode lasts for all eternity.
Catholic nuns. When you think of them, you may harken back to grade school, or your great aunt Sister Mary, or maybe even Sally Field flying around your TV screen. But consider taking another look at Catholic nuns. They’re not all rulers, dunce chairs, and old women anymore. They’re marketing geniuses. (Crazy about nuns? So [...]
…but you are not alone. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the current rate is 8.3% with an average length of ten months. For those who have not experienced long-term unemployment, every week that ticks by can become a source of depression, despair, and self-disdain. This is not a hyperbole, not when we live [...]
“Says who? Just so you know, the people who talk that way think that monkeys can do this. They take all this monkey c**p and stick it in a briefcase, completely unaware that their success depends on something more than shoeshine. You are the product. You feeling something. That’s what sells. Not them. Not sex. [...]
Desperate times call for desperate measures. The modern world has successfully graduated from high school and is now ready to attend University where its ideals will be challenged and its preconceptions destroyed. The Church has always been charged with the task of taking what is True, Good, and Beautiful in any culture and time and [...]
Last week The Daily Caller broke the news feature about the Labor Department attempting to ban farm chores. When I alerted my dad who is a life-long farmer about the new rule, he was speechless. As he scanned the news article his first comment was “This is a joke, right” To someone who has lived his life defined [...]
“Man’s curiosity searches past and future And clings to that dimension. But to apprehend The point of intersection of the timeless With time, is an occupation for the saint–” Today was a jump day. I had to jump out of a Chinook. This is one of the occupational hazards of my day job, that periodically they [...]
Technology can be both a blessing and a curse. It can be a way to learn more about God, but also waste countless hours. We live in the information age where so much knowledge is right at our fingertips. There is always something to check on facebook, twitter, email or one’s cell phone. So, how [...]
Doctors who do abortions. Lawyers who defend the guilty. Executives who lie and cheat just to raise company revenues. Sound familiar to you? But of course—relativism within the working environment has seemingly took hold even professions which can be considered most noble. As a fresh graduate who would soon be part of the corporate environment [...]
Tie your running shoes to the outside of your bag before the security lines to save space and wear slip off shoes for ease of removal. Keep your 3-1-1 liquids bag in an outside pocket. Have your ID and boarding pass in one hand and your laptop in the other, prepared to grab two plastic [...]
Every day, we go to work to earn money to sustain our needs. We wait every month for our respective salaries. When we don’t get to land a good job, our salaries are usually small. That’s not all—they are deducted by stuff such as social security and taxes. Starting employees—in my observation—are usually unhappy with [...]
I currently live on an island somewhere in the Philippines, in a city called Cebu. Here is where I’m studying to get my marketing degree and possibly in the near future, a degree in economics. I lived here since I was seventeen and I guess I could already call this place home. But that’s not [...]
So we’re still experiencing the Global Financial Crisis and it does not seem to show any signs of dissipating. As a matter of fact, as I’ve written in the Distributist League of the Philippines blog, we’re expecting another global recession to land in our shores. To put it bluntly, we’re in deep trouble and we’re [...]
In the 9 months since our daughter was born, I have changed approximately 1,500 diapers. I’m not sure how much spit-up I’ve wiped (how could you measure?), but I do know it’s been a lot. Some days I don’t wash my face until 5 p.m.. Some days I never make it out of my sweatpants. [...]
Q. How do you pronounce “ignitum”? A. Well, you have some options. The Romans would have said ig-NEE-toom. In church, we’d say “in-YEE-toom.”
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