Pacquiao: My most important lessons in life

By Teresa Tunay. Slightly abridged version. Read the full version here . When Manny Pacquiao's path and mine crossed in Davao, I gladly...

Pacquiao's gems of wisdom

By Teresa R. Tunay, OCD Feb. 10, 2005 I'm not a boxing fan. I don't relish fights—cock fights, dog fights, horse fights, salagubang ...

One thing is needful: Be with Jesus, praying

John Paul II - Ours is a time of continual movement which often leads to restlessness, with the risk of "doing for the sake of doing...

Why should prayer be the number one priority task of each day?

Reasons: 1) God is the end-goal of our lives. Better make sure we talk with him to keep focus on this ultimate goal. We do all our tasks for...

PRAYER OF ST. BONAVENTURE (A new translation)

Here is a new translation I prepared in connection with the General Monthly Intention of Opus Dei last year 2010 which goes up to February o...

‘He changed history through prayer’

Paolo Gambi meets Alberto Michelini, a distinguished Italian politician who has made an intensely moving film about Pope John Paul II Alber...

Benedict XVI: To the extent that we teach young people to pray, and to pray well, we will be cooperating with God's call

By Benedict XVI to US Bishops , answering a question on vocations. Strange to say, I often think that prayer - the unum necessarium - is the...

Sleeping in God

On the Feast of the Assumption , Pope Benedict XVI once again spoke about a favorite theme in his preachings, and which is the center of his...