Category Archives: Opinion

“UNLESS your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter into the Kingdom of heaven.” (Mt 5,20) With these words, Christ is telling us how our righteousness should be. And that is that we have to have the righteousness that truly...

“Ask, and it shall be given you: seek, and you shall find: knock, and it shall be opened to you. For every one that asketh, receiveth: and he that seeketh, findeth: and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened.” (Mt 7,7-8) The words of Christ...

The Church gives this season of Lent as a time for repentance. There is sadness amidst us brought about by the realization of the sins we commit. But there is also joy as we savor the love and compassion of the Lord giving Himself for...

(An excerpt from the Homily of Most Rev. Romulo G. Valles, D.D., Archbishop of Davao, February 26, 2022 during the live streamed mass Ordination to Diaconate of Bro. Emmanuel V. Angelitud, OCD, at the Discalced Carmelite Fathers Holy Family Novitiate House Rambutan St., Tugbok Proper,...

“Can the wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them?” (Mt 9,15) That’s taken from the gospel of Friday after Ash Wednesday. It’s Christ’s response when he was asked why his disciples do not fast as often as those of the Pharisees....