WE need to have a good understanding on this art of gradualness. With our times getting more complicated and the discussions and exchanges on several concerns getting more controversial and conflictive, we should truly learn the art of gradualness. We should try our best to avoid...
WE should never forget that only with God can we properly deal with our own weaknesses, and the many temptations and sins around. Only with him can we manage to resist the devil himself. Without him, we are easy prey, a sitting duck. Our earnest...
Today, Christ fulfills His promise to send the Holy Spirit (Jn. 15:26, 16:7) to His circle of friends who composed the early Church. Their eyes have been opened as the Holy Spirit has made things plain for them to understand the events that had to...
Excerpt of the Homily of Most Rev. Romulo Valles, D.D., Archbishop of Davao during the Marian Exhibit Year 3 at the 2nd Floor Exhibit Hall, Abreeza Mall (Part 2). The beginning of the devotion to the Blessed Mother is since the beginning of the church, and...
This mess we are in, meaning the inverted moral values affecting our behavior, can be symbolized by the result of the recent midterm elections. They were voted into office for the wrong reasons. We can conclude by saying that what was wrong before is now...
WE are familiar with this group of leading Jews in the times of Christ. They could not believe that Christ was the promised Messiah, and they did their best to discredit him, always finding fault in him, setting traps for him, until they managed, with...
WE cannot deny that our life has a lot more to offer and challenge us than what we can handle and cope. We should not be surprised by this fact of life. We have to acknowledge this reality and just try our best to be...
WE are children of God, and not his puppets or robots. The freedom he gives us is real freedom because it can even enable us to go against the true nature, source, meaning and purpose of freedom itself. We can use it—or better said, misuse...
THIS is something the sense for which we really need to develop consciously and deliberately. Given the temper of the times that would desensitize us strongly of this need, we really have to remind ourselves constantly that we need conversion all the time in our...
The 1st World Communications Day was celebrated on Sunday of May 7, 1967 and the only worldwide celebration called for by the Second Vatican Council of which most Catholic countries would celebrate on a Sunday before Pentecost. This year the theme is “We are members of...