[gallery link="file" size="full" ids="46949,47109,47110"] Davao City, December 29, 2024—The Archdiocese of Davao joyfully opened the Jubilee Year 2025 with a solemn celebration beginning at 6:30 AM at the Centennial Monument of Peace and Unity, situated in front of the San Pedro Cathedral. This marked the beginning...
The Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences (FABC) is moving forward with plans to establish a new office aimed at strengthening collaboration and synodality across the region’s diverse pastoral realities. Cardinal Filipe Neri Ferrão, archbishop of Goa and Damão in India, who just assumed the presidency of...
[gallery link="file" size="full" ids="47100,47101,47102,47103"] On January 11, 2025, Most Rev. Romulo G. Valles, D.D., Archbishop of Davao, presided over the Requiem Mass for Fr. Reiner Franke, SVD, at San Pedro Cathedral in Davao City. Fr. Franke peacefully passed away on January 7, 2025, at the age...
The St. Joseph the Worker Parish in Sasa, Davao City, held a solemn Requiem Mass on January 10, 2025, for the repose of the soul of Fr. Jeremiah “Jerry” Burr, M.M. who died in the Skilled Nursing Unit at Maryknoll, New York on December 18,...
The Sta. Ana Shrine Parish in Davao City marked the 15th celebration of the feast of Nuestro Padre Jesus Nazareno with deep devotion and vibrant festivity. This year’s Eucharistic celebration was presided over by the newly ordained and Parochial Vicar, Fr. Amiel Arado, alongside concelebrants...
WORDS of Mary to the servants at the wedding in Cana. (cfr. Jn 2,1-11) While the festive celebration was going on, the mother of Christ noticed that wine was running out. She approached him to inform him of the problem, but her request at first...
WE should aim at having our faith as strong as possible. This is the only way we can start and keep sharing the very life of God here on earth. That’s actually the ideal condition for us to be in. Otherwise, there’s no way but...
SINCE true Christian love will always ask for more and, in fact, endless things, we should not be surprised when at a certain point we will reach our limits. We know that we are supposed not to say enough in our self-giving, but given our...
THAT’S the very nature of love, if it’s true love, one that is a vital participation and reflection of the very essence of God which is also meant to be our own essence, since we are God’s image and likeness. It’s a love that never says...
THIS refers to Christ who, after preaching in a synagogue, left a deep impression on the people who compared the way he preached with the way the scribes preached. (cfr. Mk 1,22) This gospel episode somehow reminds us, especially priests, about how preaching should be properly...