As we welcome the year 2022, we cannot but also say thank you for the year 2021. We face 2022 with so much hope and strength, that strength of faith we have learned from the past year. For even if many would say how tough...
For this first Misa de Gallo what is the good news, what is the Lord telling us today as we prepare for Christmas? Better, unsay maka-excite nato as we prepare for Christmas? All so many things, mga gifts, mga kalipay activities so true but kung...
WITH the celebration of the Solemnity of the Epiphany of Christ, we are actually left with an invitation that can very well be a big challenge for us who profess to believe in Christ. This is none other than the duty to show or reveal...
JANUARY 1 is, of course, Happy New Year’s Day! A new beginning is offered to us. Let’s be happy and hopeful. Yes, we will always have challenges and trials, etc., but let’s never forget that we have God as our Father who takes care of...
WE have to develop the awareness and the conviction that we are truly God’s children, meant to share his life, since we have been created in his image and likeness. Despite the tremendous disbelief this truth of our faith tells us, we just have to...
THE gospel story of Anna, the prophetess, (cfr. Lk 2,36-40) gives us the precious lesson of how important it is to persevere in our commitments. It that story, it is said that she was already advanced in years and never left the temple, worshipping night...
IF we have to be consistent with our Christian identity, then we have to ready to be a sign of contradiction, as Christ himself was and continues to be. Let’s not forget that prophecy made by Simeon when the child Jesus was presented in the...
THE Feast of the Holy Innocents on December 28 (cfr. Mt 2,13-18) obviously reminds us that like those martyred babies, we too can be martyred anytime as collateral victims in our life drama when we try to be consistent with our Christian faith. Therefore, we...
ON the Feast of St. John, the Apostle and Evangelist, on December 27, let’s try to capture his youthful love for Christ that would truly help us in our spiritual life. Like him, we should be both most eager to look for Christ and yet...
(An excerpt from the Homily of Most Rev. Romulo G. Valles, D.D., Archbishop of Davao, December 16, 2021 during the live streamed mass of the Simbayanan at San Pedro Cathedral Parish, San Pedro Street, Davao City) Now we go to the gospel, again like Mary we...