“My faith is stronger than Yolanda. I didn’t fear Yolanda. She should fear my God. Even the rains cannot stop me from thanking the Lord for saving me and my family. He is truly a caring and loving God.” These words came from Anita Carillo...
When our physical entities cease to function, our soul separates from it, we call this death. The souls who go to Heaven belong to the Triumphant Church. They are the saints who continue to pray for us as our intercessors. There are...
One of the three states of the Church is the assembly of all the saints. We commemorate their triumph every first of November. Faith teaches us that they “are in glory, contemplating ‘in the full light, God Himself triune and one, exactly as He is’”...
Does purgatory exist? Yes. The Church says that it is the state where all those who die in God’s friendship are assured of eternal salvation but who still have need of purification (expiation of sin) before entering heaven (CCCC 210). That purgatory exists is clear from...
It’s Prison Awareness Week. Perhaps we ask what’s in it for us. We may shrug it off since anyway prisoners are behind bars for a well deserved punishment. But wait! Not all of them are. Some could be victims of circumstances; though others could be...
By virtue of one’s baptism, we all share in the missionary work of the Church, thus we are called to become a missionary in our own way. Each one through his or her own vocation whether in married life, priesthood and religious life, or in single-blessedness...
The Archangels are spiritual beings of the highest rank created by God before the world was created. The most renowned are St. Michael or San Miguel, St. Gabriel or San Gabriel and St. Raphael or San Rafael. Each had specific duties. St. Michael whose name...
Catholic lay people have the mission to transform the world by living their faith in order to build the Church. By faith, Catholic lay people across the centuries have “professed the beauty of following the Lord Jesus wherever they were called to bear witness...
Catholics make the sign of the Cross, a gesture that means so much – security, sacrifice and salvation. Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI says, “by signing ourselves with the cross, we place ourselves under the protection of the Cross, hold it in front of us like a...
Vocation Month opens with the Eucharist presided by Most Rev. Romulo G. Valles, D.D., Archbishop of Davao at San Pedro Cathedral, September 2, 2013 at 5:30 P.M. Various Congregations conduct school visits, search-ins and discernment sessions. It is the right of religious groups to publicize...
