Month: May 2025

THIS is the attitude to have in the face of our unavoidable weaknesses and temptations and the consequences they bring. We should just get up after every fall, say sorry for every mistake and sin we commit, continue asking for grace and polishing our virtues...

THIS should be the ideal condition we have to pursue and achieve with respect to any commitment we enter into. Starting with our own birth where we are already committed, albeit unknowingly at first, to live our life according to God’s plan, all the way...

THIS should always be our normal state of mind. This is not a matter of paranoia or that of overacting. This is to be very realistic about our life here on earth. We have to realize that we have to contend with many challenges and...

Until the arrival of the Jesuits in 1868, Christianization of areas north of the gulf of Davao was inexistent. Earlier, the Recollects penetrated regions in the eastern seaboard of Davao, but their efforts to convert indigenous tribes and Moros to the faith were limited. The first...

(An excerpt of the Most Reverend Romulo G. Valles D.D. During his Homily at the 11th Anniversary Archdiocesan Nutrition Center, St. Francis Xavier Major Seminary of Mindanao, May 19, 2025.) Alang ni sa mga hamtong, ingon ta 11 years ang ANC. Naa ko pagsugod niini uban...