Education plays a very important role in the growth of the person and in ordering the society. It should include, first and foremost, spiritual formation. This week is National Catechetical Week. Just as the Department of Education is doing all that they can to continue to...
Now that Davao City's situation due to the pandemic that is Covid-19 is classified under Modified General Community Quarantine (MGCQ), Mayor Sara Duterte has enjoined the public to self-regulate. As the city allowed businesses and churches to open, it lifted the use of food and...
IF we truly are in love, we would like to know how much love we are giving and whether the love we have is true love or is just an appearance of it. We know very well that we are fond of saying we love...
On the occasion of National Heroes Day celebrated yearly on August 31, we again ask the question, lest we forget, the difference between martyr, hero/heroine, and patriot. Without consulting the Webster dictionary we can respond with the common and popular understanding of the words. A martyr...
CHRIST warned the apostles about false doctrine. That’s when he told them, “Be on guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.” (Mt 16,6) The apostles at first thought Christ was faulting them for not bringing bread, until they were corrected and later understood...
WE should never forget this fact of life. As long as we live in this planet, we are actually being tested to see if we love God or our own selves, if we choose to do good or to opt for the pleasurable or convenient...
THAT gospel episode of the two sisters, Martha and Mary, when visited by Christ (cfr. Lk 10,38-42) teaches us a clear lesson that no matter how important, legitimate or most welcome our human activities may be, prayer always has priority over all of them. What Martha...
WE have to convince ourselves that the best way to resolve our unavoidable differences and conflicts in the area of politics, social life, and other fields prone to contention and controversies, is for us to always engage in civil discourse, in cordial dialogue. We have to...
WE need to have a good and healthy sense of nostalgia and expectation in our life here on earth. We cannot deny that we have our past and our future, and thus we cannot avoid having to refer ourselves to these points of reference. Of course,...
Reading this title one may ask, can my physical suffering, which may be terribly painful, still inspire onlookers? You can immediately follow up with, "which one?" because we can suffer in body (physical) and spirit (moral) and soul (spiritual). All of them can, we usually...