AN intriguing statement, indeed! It’s part of the spiritual consideration that Opus Dei founder, St. Josemaria Escriva, made on the fourth sorrowful mystery of the holy rosary. The pertinent point goes as follows: “But don’t drag the Cross…Carry it squarely on your shoulder, because your Cross,...
I MEAN it’s God’s work, first of all, before it is ours. This business of our creation and redemption is begun by God and he also will be the one to complete and perfect it. (cfr. Phil 1,6) On our own, we cannot. Neither did...
September is the month-long celebration of vocation. The stress however is on the vocation to the priesthood and consecrated life. Celebrating vocation month in this year of the youth, there’s need of responding this question: “How can we make young people recognize that the most important...
Excerpt of the Homily of Most Rev. Romulo Valles, D.D., Archbishop of Davao during the Bibliyampo Congress in Our Lady of Lourdes Parish, Bangkal, Davao City. The way the church considers the youth today have shifted. According to Cardinal Tagle, based on the message of the...
In our Christian Catholic tradition we use the word, spirituality, to refer to the faith basis or spiritual reason for my life and behavior. So, as far as I am concerned, all my personal responses to any issue of the day are motivated by my spirituality....
One quiet afternoon looking outside my window, I saw two birds chirping and resting on a tree in our neighbor's backyard. As I observed them, I remembered these words from the Holy Bible particularly on Matthew 6:26 that says "Look at the birds: they do...
THE story of Moses receiving complaints from his fellow Israelites as he led them out of the bondage of Egypt (cfr. Ex 14,5-18) reminds us of the hardness of our heart to resist conversion and return to God from our state of sin. Like those complaining...
WE need to realize more deeply that everytime we participate in any liturgical act, we are actually stepping into the supernatural world of God. We are made contemporaries with Christ as he continues his work of human redemption until the end of time. And that’s simply...
WHAT is the ultimate and constant purpose of our life? It is to be like God as God wants us to be. We have been created in his image and likeness. He wants us to be like him, full of love. We are meant to...
THIS may be the favorite pastime of many people, but it is never good to gossip. To gossip is at least bad manners. If ever we have to talk about somebody with some of our friends, only nice, edifying things should be said. We actually have...