Italian, Valentino, Latin Valentinus. St Valentine is a third century saint honored in Western Christianity on February 14 and in Eastern Christian Orthodox on July 6. Though associated with love, he is also the patron saint of beekeepers and those sick of epilepsy. He was...
I was raised as an ordinary child who knows nothing about the church, who barely knows basic prayers, and barely knows about God. I remember my church life back then as a minimal one. Rarely going to church, and if my family visits our GKK...
When I was rebuilding my life and faced pressure to compromise my values to get ahead, Proverbs 16:18—“Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall”—kept me grounded. I chose a smaller, more honest role instead of chasing a title that didn’t align with...
Our Foundress St. Marie Rivier is a Woman of Compassion. Her whole life is a being of Compassion…her childhood, her adolescence, her adulthood up to her sublime offering to God of her life at the time of her death. During her lifetime as consecrated and religious,...
I didn’t grow up with the Bible as a central part of my life. For years, it felt like a thick, ancient book full of stories that I couldn’t connect to my modern days. But everything shifted when I was going through a season of...
The Philippine Bible Society (PBS) initiates a month-long celebration for the Bible Month. It encourages Filipinos to read, to be engaged, and be transformed by the word of God (Philippine Bible Society, 2026). This annual celebration leads back to 1982, when the late President Ferdinand...
As this year begins, I wish to continue my article series by expressing how blessed I am to be part of this Youth Apostolate. To begin with, I never saw myself as a youth leader—taking up roles, or even leading the kids, teens, and adults....
The start of the massive conversion of the Moros in Davao to Catholicism took place in 1894-95, just years before the end of Spanish colonial rule. On September 28, 1894, for instance, Father Urios baptized 127 Moros, many of them datus and panditas. By October,...
Dear Ate Emz, Magandang araw po sa lahat. Gusto ko lang po idulog ang aking sitwasyon. Ano po ang magandang gawin kasi may GF ako. Di siya mapagbigay na tao, tapos halos ako na rin gumagastos sa iba niyang luho. May trabaho naman po siya at ako...
Back in my teen years—or even perhaps until now, whenever I encounter small inconveniences in life, I tend to immediately rant it out with my friends and families. Most of the time, I automatically complain about it. Plausibly, there are also instances when I would...