THAT, I believe, is the main message of the gospel we have on Holy Thursday. (cfr. Jn 13,1-15) It’s about what happened during the Last Supper where aside from instituting the two sacraments of Holy Orders and the Holy Eucharist, Christ showed his apostles how...
WE should be ready when bad things happen in our life. In fact, we should expect the worst in life, like when death, which cannot be solved anymore, would finally come to us. Before death, we should be ready when cases of severe misfortune or...
IT’S a fact of life. We are all traitors. We practice treachery even within ourselves. That’s why we fall into sin. We, of course, do it also among ourselves. And in spite of our best efforts, we can still fall into it even with God....
THE gospel reading for Monday of Holy Week, taken from the gospel of St. John 12,1-11, reminds us that we should not make God and the poor to compete with each other for our attention, care and love. Our attention, care and love for them...
The long weekend, as many expect, is only so short compared to the everlasting life that Christ accomplished for us in the last days of his earthly life. When we truly enter into the celebration of the Holy Week and reach its peak at the...
(An excerpt from the Homily of Most Rev. Romulo G. Valles, D.D., Archbishop of Davao during the Livestreaming Mass, March 26, 2023 – 5th Sunday of Lent, San Pedro Catheral, San Pedro St., Davao City) This Sunday is the 5th Sunday of Lent, and next Sunday...
ON Palm Sunday, we will be having a very long gospel reading that narrates the very passion and death of Christ, our Redeemer. (cfr. Mt 26,14-27-66) Our human reaction to this day may be different from what should be expected from us. That’s understandable. But we...
THAT’S what Christ told those Jews who could not believe that he was the Son of God. “We are not stoning you for a good work but for blasphemy,” those Jews said. “You, a man, are making yourself God.” (Jn 10,33) That’s when Christ told them...
“AMEN, amen, I say to you, before Abraham came to be, I AM.” (Jn 8,58) Words of Christ that so confounded the Jews of that time that they started throwing stones at him. These are words Christ said to show that only with him can we...
OF course, we can find true freedom only in Christ. He said so in very explicit terms. “If you remain in my word, you will truly be my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” (Jn 8,31-32) We have...