Articles by Mary Kris I. Figueroa

J.M.J. Each time a new year begins, we always wish and pray for ourselves a better life ahead. To be able to achieve that, we know that we need to make some life changes. While there are situations outside us that we cannot change, there are things within us that …

J.M.J. Merry Christmas! Let us receive the true peace and “great joy” that this Day brings! God bless us all! For this last Christmas of the decade, My Reflection offers a new and unique perspective — to deepen our appreciation for the Nativity of the Lord and its meaning in …

J.M.J. Lately, I have been often listening to two versions of the song If – the original male version by the American band, Bread, and a Filipino female cover version that I first listened to back when I was thirteen years old. I like the song for its poetical lyrics, …

Let me open this Series and begin with one of the most popular and influential female Saints of the Catholic Church. Who would have thought that this Spanish nun, who was such a great Contemplative and a most gifted Mystic, was somehow a worldling during a certain period in her …

J.M.J. Some of us find ourselves still waiting for God’s answer to our particular intentions or prayers even after months or years. If you can relate, I say that I feel you, because I’m like you. The silence of God, or not getting an answer from God, can go on …

In one of the Mass Readings for this week, the Gospel (Luke 6:6-11) recounts a miracle and a plot: Jesus heals the withered right hand of a man on Sabbath Day, as the watchful Pharisees, enraged with the act, immediately seek counsel in a plot to put Jesus to death. …

The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the fourth and the most recent of the Marian Dogmas. In Munificentissimus Deus, the 1950 Apostolic Constitution of Pope Pius XII, the Catholic Church decreed and declared that “the Immaculate Mother of God, the ever Virgin Mary, having completed the course of …

Holyart is a Catholic art shop in Italy that sells exclusively online. It has the largest catalogue of religious items in Europe, with thousands of products in store. A while back, someone on their behalf contacted me and offered me any product worth up to $50 that I could do …

J.M.J. I must admit that among the many doctrines of the Catholic Church, it was the doctrine of the Sanctity of Human Life that I never made an extra effort to learn more and be passionate about in the past. While others have spiritual blindness on the truths of the …