(An excerpt of the Most Reverend Romulo G. Valles D.D. in his Homily during the 5th PACOM in University of the Southeastern Philippines (USEP), BO Obrero, August 28, 2025.) In the Gospel reading today, on this Feast of the great saint, Saint Augustine, Jesus uses the...
The Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, lovingly called the Bambinella, on September 8 invites us to pause and marvel at the quiet mystery of beginnings. In the birth of Mary, a fragile infant cradled in the arms of her parents, we...
WE should have no doubt about this. We may at first be scared when Christ told his disciples, and now us, “If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children and brethren, and sisters, yes and his...
WHEN Christ said, “No one tears a piece from a new cloak to put it on an old cloak; otherwise, not only will the new one be torn, but the piece taken from the new will not match the old,” (Lk 5,36) we are somehow...
WHEN Christ told Peter to “put out into deep water and lower your nets for a catch,” (Lk 5,4) the immediate conclusion we can make is that Christ was telling Peter to be enterprising and aggressive in reaching out to people, i.e., in doing apostolate....
WE should not be surprised when we are faced with our own limitations of whatever kind, and hounded by the consequences of our mistakes. We have to expect this kind of situations and learn how to handle them, converting them even into something that will...
AND also, only with God can we manage to drive out demons when they happen to succeed in possessing us. Let’s always remember that the demons who are spiritual beings—they are originally good angels who decided for all eternity to go against God upon their...
THAT’S the lesson we can learn from that gospel episode where Christ, preaching in the synagogue in his hometown of Nazareth, left the people more in disbelief than in amazement. (Lk 4,16-30) “Is this not the son of Joseph?” they asked. To which Christ could...
I was an RTC Judge from 1985 to 2006. For me the most agonizing cases were for legal separation. You can and feel the anger, despair, sadness and arrogance. I feel bad when the children in a legal separation case are in court to testify...
(An excerpt of the Most Reverend Romulo G. Valles D.D. in his Homily during the Installation of Rev. Fr. Roy Mejias as Parish Priest of St. Joseph the Worker Parish, Sasa, August 24, 2025.) God is the source. He moves us. He challenges us. He gives...