November 1 and November 2 are the days we commemorate for the saints and the departed souls. The two days are connected, representing the “communion of saints” that includes the living, those in purgatory, and those in heaven. Both days are in celebration of our...
IT’S good that in our country we have this very popular tradition called “undas” when families go to cemeteries to visit, clean and decorate graves of loved ones. There they offer prayers, light candles and leave flowers and even food for the departed. It’s also...
PERHAPS that’s what we can learn from the readings of Friday of the 30th Week in Ordinary Time. (cfr. Rom 9,1-5; Lk 14,1-6) There we can see how St. Paul expressed his deep sorrow and anguish for his unbelieving people and was willing to be...
THAT’S simply because things would just get worse if we behave otherwise. In our life, we should expect these things to happen to us. It’s part of our wounded human nature. It should not surprise us. But obviously, we should learn how to be properly...
TO get to the point without beating around the bush, the only way we can truly be sincere with everyone and with everything is when we are with God who, after all, knows all things and knows them always with charity, justice, mercy, prudence and...
THIS is the ideal we should pursue in our self-giving, first to God and then to everybody else. If we truly love God and everybody else, with a love that is nothing less than a participation of the love God has for us and as...
UNLESS our human laws can capture the logic behind that divine commandment to love one another as Christ has loved us and continues to love us, even to the extent of loving our enemies, we can only say that indeed our human laws, despite all...
(An excerpt of the Most Reverend Romulo G. Valles, D.D. in his Homily during the 51st Patronal Fiesta of St. Teresa of Avila, Teresian Daughters of Mary, October 15, 2025.) Your motto, the motto of the late Archbishop Antonio Mabutas, is “Sentire Cum Ecclesia”. Hold on...
Celebrating the Prison Awareness Sunday is a time to see the design plan of God to every human person: To experience joy and fullness of life. As human beings, we easily forget, weak, sinners, and easily be tempted. In the society there is a jail...
THAT’S what we can get from the parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector. (cfr. Lk 18,9-14) Especially before God, we never have any reason to brag about our own righteousness. We may be doing a lot of good, but let’s not spoil them...