Earthquakes shake buildings, make them collapse, and destroy them. People found within are killed and those on whom they fall are likewise killed. When the seas and oceans are shaken tsunami is created and destroy properties and human lives. As a result a more destructive and...
IN any social environment where we always find ourselves, be it the family, school, office, parish, or society in general, etc., we have to remember three basic and indispensable principles that should guide our actuations there. These are the principles of the common good, solidarity...
FAR from straitjacketing or stereotyping us, entering into a commitment would simply show that we are so driven with love and a deep sense of freedom that we are willing to take on whatever consequences our commitment would make on us. We are human with a...
The word “teleological” may sound Greek to us at the moment. And it should not surprise us, for true enough it is of Greek origin. But the word actually refers to almost everything that we usually do. Whenever we do something, we always have a...
IT’S indeed laudable that in whatever we do, we try to give it our best shot. We should just remember that our best will never be enough insofar as pleasing God and everybody else is concerned. Our best can always be made better. This should not...
IF we truly want to follow Christ, we should always feel the urge and the passion for reaching out to those who are lost, separated from him and his Church, those who are confused and in error, those in the peripheries in whatever sense “peripheries”...
"The Church teaches that every spiritual soul is created immediately by God --- it is not produced by the parents --- and also that it is immortal: it does not perish when it separates from the body at death, and it will be reunited with...
Excerpts of the Homily of Most Rev. Romulo Valles, D.D., Archbishop of Davao, 51st Parochial Fiesta of St. Jude Thaddeus Shrine Parish on October 28, 2019. I came from a GKK sa St. Jude nga sakop sa parokya sa Babak. This is how the community began...
Last week I promised to cite the written testimony of Fr. Willigis Jäger, a German monk, who wrote: "The rosary is the mantric prayer that is best known among Christians, especially Catholics. It has its greatest effects in group recitation, and the more monotonously and...
WE know that the Church is both hierarchical and charismatic in nature. As charismatic, the Church continues to receive from God through Christ in the Holy Spirit special gifts and charisms to keep the Church strong, vibrant and faithful. These gifts and charisms are first...