Pilgrims during Lent

(An excerpt of the homily of the Most Reverend Romulo G. Valles D.D. during the 79th Anniversary of Catholic Womens League of the Archdiocese of Davao at Grand Men Seng Hotel, Davao City, March 18, 2025.)

What should be the heart of the CWL as pilgrims, during Lent? Beginning of Lent, remember CWL, you are dust and to dust you shall return.

We travel knowing that we are dust, we travel humbly, we are servants. We travel as pilgrims that way, knowing that we are finite. We don’t travel as if we deserve to reach, maybe we cannot. But we can only be saved by being dust because of the hope in Jesus.

How do we behave as we travel? Ang travel practice ang 40 days of Lent, Kwaresma, kwarenta. How do we travel as pilgrims? Niingon ang beginning of Lent, bearers of hope, journey, pray intensely, give alms, fast, very important batasan sa traveler.

Importante nga hinagiban attitudes sa mga travelers, sa mga pilgrims.

Madaot ang hope if we don’t learn from the message of Lent. That’s why we fast, because in that we learn the discipline of fasting, to be good pilgrims, makaabot ta sa atong gilauman, si Jesus, the kingdom, the great banquet of heaven mao ang target nato, makaabot ta if we learn to fast, discipline of the body, discipline of the stomach.