Banneux, Belgium Immediately after our evening prayer last night, the school director announced that there would be a concert in a village called Louveigné at 8:30 pm. The village he said was just a kilometer away from our school. He was looking for interested people to go with him and his wife to the concert. [...]
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To Say Nothing Except What Can Be Said
The Function of Language According to Ludwig Wittgenstein’s TRACTATUS LOGICO-PHILOSOPHICUS “The right method of philosophy would be this: To say nothing except what can be said.”Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, proposition 6.53 The brilliant and influential but long and rather technical Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Logische-Philosophische Abhandlung) is the only book Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) published in his lifetime. [...]
Affirming God’s Presence In Your Life
Many afternoons ago I was on a bus with a classmate. When we were seated I made the sign of the cross. She gave me a surprised look and then she asked, “Why did you make the sign of the cross? Don’t you trust the driver?” I told her that I made the sign of [...]
God Called Us To Be Holy, Not To Be Immoral
Pastoral Approaches to Pornography on the Internet “We are called to be holy, not to be immoral” (1 Thess 4:7). This admonition to the early Christians of Thessalonica is as relevant today as it was then. For it seems that it is becoming increasingly difficult for us to live sexually pure lives. We live in [...]
An Interesting Life: some musings on my pilgrimage to assisi
What makes life interesting? Is it friends? Is it family? A life without worries? Challenges? Is it your work? Your accomplishments? The affirmations and awards that you receive after a job well done? Is it service? Adventure? A life full of fun? Three Saturdays ago I went to a place made famous by a man [...]
Reflections From A Rooftop
Where do you go when you’re lonely? Where do you go when you’re happy? Where do you go when you pray? Where do you go when you want to celebrate? Where do you go when you want to be by your lonesome? Where do you go when you want to be alone with your significant [...]
Rowing Upstream
Each of us faces a new challenge each day. Sometimes it’s big and complicated, sometimes it’s small and effortlessly solvable. Sometimes it’s a huge and heavy cross, yet sometimes it’s a light and bearable stake. God told us to carry our cross each day. I think he wants it to mean that we need to [...]
Dream Beautiful Things
Before I came to Rome I’ve always dreamed not only of seeing its beautiful sights but also of being able to speak its language. The easy part was finding the places of interest, the hard part was and is learning the language. I have spent whole mornings, whole afternoons and whole evenings learning things as [...]
Find Happiness Everywhere
I have received quite a number of emails form friends telling me that I have such an exciting life here in Italy in contrast to their dull life in the Philippines. It seems to point out that excitement can only be found in new or exotic experiences or places. I don’t think so. Life is [...]
We Are Raindrops
There was heavy rain late this afternoon. From my bedroom window I could see the trees swaying in all directions. The winds were unusually strong and the clouds were considerably thick. As bolts of lighting illumined the gray sky, cracks of thunder echoed throughout the Roman landscape. I wondered if there was a tempest coming, [...]
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