Life is the greatest gift that is given to us, but in the current world it is treated as an option. Things that are against life today has been normalized such as contraception, euthanasia, suicide, and other things. Where is the respect? The respect that...
This month’s celebration of pro-life reminded me of a very real and meaningful experience in my own family. I always knew life is precious, but I understood it more deeply when my mom got sick and had to stay in the hospital. That moment showed...
Each year, the World Day of the Sick invites the Church to pause and look more closely at illness, suffering, and healing. Celebrated near the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, this day draws our attention to a place known throughout the world for miraculous...
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....