WE are right in the midst of the happy Christmas season when the family plays a very crucial role in everyone’s life. It’s time to look again into the current challenges of this most natural, most basic and most indispensable social unit, since on it...
It's already December and we are in the last month of the year 2021. For the past months we continue to be hopeful that this pandemic will end and that we will return to our normal lives. But sad to say, it seems Covid is...
There is no greater feeling of relief in times of adversity than to have someone with us on the rescue. In difficult moments when we need other’s hands, we find comfort in finding someone who is ready to share with us the burden on the...
CHRISTMAS always evokes a very romantic sensation of joy, and that’s very understandable since what takes place there on December 25 is the birth of our Savior, the Son of God who became man to bring us back to where we came from, and thus...
THAT “Benedictus” prayer that was said by Zechariah, John the Baptist’s father, as an expression of a most profound sense of praise, thanksgiving and blessing for the great favor he received, highlights the reality of the tremendous love God has for all of us. (cfr....
THE gospel story of the circumcision of St. John the Baptist, eight days after his birth, again tells us about the inscrutable ways of God. (cfr. Lk 1,57-66) We have to learn to go along with this reality of our life, just following what our...
IT’S a question we have to ask ourselves, especially these days when we are hounded by a heavy wave of darkness, uncertainty and even pessimism, what with the pandemic and the spoiler Odette still gripping us in abnormal conditions. If what excites us the most...
IT’S never a shame to be a servant, to have the mentality and the attitude of one. In fact, to be a servant is an integral part of our dignity as children of God, made in his image and likeness. We are reminded of this basic...
THAT gospel story about the Archangel Gabriel visiting Mary to tell her that she was going to be the mother of the son of God (cfr. Lk 1,26-38) reminds us that like Mary, we too should say, “Fiat,” (Be it done) to whatever the will...
(An excerpt from the Homily of Most Rev. Romulo G. Valles, D.D., Archbishop of Davao, December 8, 2021 during the live streamed mass of the Culmination of the Year of St. Joseph with Act of Consecration of Families to Saint Joseph at St. Joseph the...