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  • Begin the New Year with Mary

    Begin the New Year with Mary

    CBCPNews,

    It’s a piece of advice that is worth taking seriously. That New Year’s Day is celebrated liturgically with the Solemnity of Mary

  • Lessons from the Lord’s presentation

    Lessons from the Lord’s presentation

    CBCPNews,

    We should sharpen our desire to serve and not be served, always following the example of Christ who said, “The Son of man has not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” (Mt 20,28) Let’s remember that to serve is the language and the action of love. The angels too, superior to us in nature, are made to serve us, following a divine law articulated by Christ himself when he said: “Let him who is greatest among you become as the youngest, and him who is the chief as the servant.” (Lk 22,26) Another lesson we can learn from the feast of the presentation of the Lord is that like Christ we should be ready to be a “a sign of contradiction.” We may ask, why should Christ and all Christians who try to be faithful be a ‘sign of contradiction’? Consider some words of his: “So the last will be first, and the first will be last.” (Mt 20,16) “For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it.” (Mt 16,25) We just have to realize that this whole business of being a “sign of contradiction” is part of the unavoidable tension that exists between the natural and the supernatural aspects of our life, the material and spiritual, the temporal and eternal, etc.