My Articulate Heart

Pornography is silently destroying the lives of boys and girls, adults and the middle aged alike. It has successfully dismantled marriages and pulled apart families. It is corrupting priests and seminarians. It is making entry ways into convents and communities. It is invading every strata of human presence. Let us call spade a spade - Pornography is a disastrous epidemic of epic proportions. What do we do about it? How do we protect ourselves and our young? How do we heal and restore those who are harmed by it. How to educate people about this intrinsically evil epidemic. How to empower them to willfully reject it? In the divine design, man and women would enter into the sacred sexual union in the sacramental framework of marriage, fully prepared to become a gift to each other and become parents of the children their union begets, assuming responsibility, accepting hardships and challenges. This valiant marital commitment gave them meaning and purpose to their lives....

You have entered into your married life with lots of colourful dreams, hoping for a lifetime of unending bliss. But things aren't the way you imagined. Hope has faded, dreams have turned pale, and the basket is lost somewhere in the attic. You are pulling on, hoping that someday, at least your kids will grow up and fulfil some of your leftover dreams. Or you are secretly married to your work, hobbies or business, craving some fulfilment. You feel your partner is partly, if not fully, responsible for this situation. You feel you married the wrong person. There is a big vacuum within, and you are tired of pretending. Life has been unfair to you, and you want to quit. You feel you deserve more. Yes, you do. Is it possible to restore your marriage? The answer is a resounding yes! Because the success of marriage does not depend on the goodness of the individuals involved. “What is impossible for man is possible for God.” Luke 18:27 Marriage is not a human arrangement but God's own ...

The mystery of the Holy Trinity is fundamental to Christian faith. The pattern of Christian life is derived from the life of the Trinity because we are God’s children and are created in His image. Understanding the Trinity can deeply enlighten our minds, especially when we seek to understand the many facets of our faith. When a Christian refers to God, he is referring to a communion of three distinct Persons: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. In other words, God is one, yet exists eternally as three distinct Persons. The Father is eternal, without beginning and without end. The Father’s knowledge, expression and Word are also eternal, and it is the Word whom we call the Son. The Son is therefore uncreated and eternally begotten of the Father. Just as a light source and the light itself cannot be separated, the Father and the Son exist together in a self-giving relationship. The love between the Father and the Son is not merely something they possess; the Holy Spirit is the th...

Prophesying, casting out demons and working miracles are signs of a true Christian. Jesus said these signs will follow those who believe (Mark 16:17-18). Yet in Mathew 7:22-23, we confront an angry, unruly Jesus who declares to the many believers who performed these signs in His name “I never knew you; depart from me evil doers”. They were denied entry into his kingdom despite the signs that followed their ministry. Two questions arise here; first, why did Jesus say that He did not know these men when the truth is that God is all knowing? Second, why did Jesus not permit them into His kingdom even though their ministry was accompanied by these signs? Did not Jesus know anything about these men? Off-course he did. In fact Jesus knew everything about them and that is precisely why He declares “I never knew you". To enter heaven we should be known by Jesus. Here the word ‘knowing’ does not mean just an awareness or knowledge rather a higher level of relationship. It po...

What if the Aston Martin Vantage GT12 were convinced that it was just a pull cart and lived like one, never knowing its power or potential? As a larva that does not know the fascinating butterfly it will soon become, man also does not know his own greatness or what he is destined to become. He lives in ignorance of what he is actually capable of. All that he is able to think up with his so-called advanced intellect is so limited. It seldom measures up to the reality of who he really is or what he is capable of. Man can only find himself fully in God—his Creator. Man does not become great by addition but by subtraction. Man tries to become great by adding degrees, possessions, wealth, health, superficial beauty, name, fame and so on. He thinks he is the sum total of the value of all that he possesses. He becomes great by letting go. His greatness lies within himself. Because he isn't humble enough to look up to God, he fails to look within himself and find the treasure. Godless ...

“Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.” Matthew 7:14 Those who have not submitted themselves to the authority of the Gospel are not guided by the Truth but are tossed around by their own deceitful desires. They are faced with unlimited options as far as the direction of their life's journey is concerned. They are guided by too many dim and dull lights. Everywhere there are mega offers and jackpots designed to entice the pleasure seeker. Their journey is wayward and aimless. They sway in all directions like drunkards. Their road is therefore wide, and its entrance is even wider. They will not reach any destination because they have none. The road they traverse is illusory and deceptive. They are trapped and headed towards eternal nothingness. No passengers ...

We live in a culture where beauty of the human body is falsely defined by pornography. So if you are a person who grew up with pornographic influence, it is almost certain that you have not liked your wife's body when you saw her naked for the first time. And it would be no different even now unless you have learned in the hard way to love her for who she really is. The pornographic culture has deceived us to seek beauty in the body divorced from the person. Beauty of the person though perceived in the body, lies in the soul. Every person that God created is beautiful. If I'm unable to see my wife's real beauty, the problem lies in my heart. The effective tool to measure ones love for his wife is his ability to see and foster his wife’s beauty (TOB 92:4).  The onus is totally upon the husband to make his wife aware of her beauty by loving her - body and soul. A husband must find out where his wife doubts her own beauty, it is precisely there he should love her te...