On December 2019 the Chinese City of Wuhan reported a very deadly and very infectious virus. China told the World Health Organization about it stressing that it is worse than the 2014 African ebola virus and the 1980’s HIV. The world’s response was slow, thinking...
Cloud of fear, gloom and despair covered the world from, January 2020 to the middle of 2022 because of COVID. The Southern Philippines Medical Center is the biggest and best equipped government hospital with the most number of beds in Southern Mindanao. When Rodrigo Duterte assumed...
Atol sa iyang turno sa programa nga Tingog Sa Magbalantay sa DXGN 89.9 Spirit FM niadtong Marso 5, gisaysay ni Arsobispo sa Davao, Most Rev. Romulo G. Valles, D. D., ang mga pipila ka mga gikinahanglang pagpalambo sa pipila ka mga gambalay sa Arkidyosis sa...
WE need to feel the need to develop a heart like that of Christ, a heart that welcomes and accommodates everyone, irrespective of how they are. It is a universal heart that is concerned only with the salvation of everyone. That encounter between Jesus and the...
THAT’S how love should be handled. If we are given love, we should always give back love also. We have to be wary of our tendency to betray this fundamental law of our life, because instead of repaying the love we receive with love, we...
THE reason can be found in that parable Christ told his disciples about the rich man, dressed in purple, and the poor man, Lazarus, who was lying at the rich man’s door, covered with sores and waiting to get even the scraps of food that...
AND, yes, also our death, both of which are unavoidable in our life. In this regard, it’s helpful to consider the following words of Christ which he addressed to his apostles and to everyone who believes in him: “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and...
THAT’S the attitude to have if we have to follow Christ who at one point said, “The greatest among you must be your servant. Whoever exalts himself will be humbled; but whoever humbles himself will be exalted.” (Mt 23,11-12) Those words of Christ were preceded by...
THAT’S a clear mark of a true Christian. Christ has told us clearly: “Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.” (Lk 6,36) There are no ifs and buts in these words. In fact, Christ continued to say: “Do not judge, and you will not...
(Excerpt from the Homily of Most Reverend Romulo G. Valles, D.D., on the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord and World Day of Religious and Consecrated Men and Women, San Pedro Cathedral Parish) But today, the church asks us, requests us, inspires us, to focus...