ESPECIALLY in our public discourses regarding ticklish issues, we need to see to it that we are most aware of a persona-non-grata that is called pride. We should keep it at bay, exerting appropriate effort to resist its many strong impulses and urges. Pride always spoils...
THIS is one of the most intriguing statements of St. Paul. In his second letter to Timothy, he described how some people would be in the last days. (3,2-7) He warned us to be prepared to deal with them. “People will be lovers of themselves,” he...
THIS is a very challenging task for anyone who has the duty to give some spiritual guidance to young people. But once accomplished, you can be sure that a great good would have been served, and that the sense of fulfilment for both the guide...
St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, an Italian saint, became very famous as a healer both of physical illnesses but also of moral failings. Many healed people can testify that he even could read consciences. One reason of the healing fame of Padre Pio are his stigmata....
MAKE no mistake about it. Only in Christ can we find true freedom. Everything else can only give us, at best, apparent freedom that in the end can only put us into some bondage, if not destroy us. The reason for this is that Christ, as...
Last September 20 was the centennial anniversary of Padre Pio’s reception of the stigmata and last September 23 was his 50th death anniversary. Padre Pio lived in poverty as he always trusted in the strength and consolation of the Lord in bearing the stigmata. Persevering Jesus...
Excerpt from Archbishop Romulo G. Valles’ homily during the Holy Mass of the 33rd Parochial Fiesta Celebration of San Lorenzo Ruiz Parish and installation of the new Parish Priest and Parochial Vicar last September 28, 2018 at Talomo, Davao City. Ang fiesta karon mao ang reminder...
“tumana ninyo bisan unsa ang iyang isulti kaninyo” (Jn. 2:5) Mga binati kong kaigsoonan diha sa kasingkasing ni Jesus ug ni Maria: VIVA MARIA VIVA JESUS! Sukad pa niadtong Aug 22, 1951, kitang mga taga habagatang Dabaw, ilabi na dinhi sa Digos, nagsaulog na sa kapistahan sa atong...
WE have to learn this art of letting go and moving on. Especially these days, when we are bombarded with so many competing things and the possibility of getting cornered by some problem or difficulty is very high, we need to know how to let...
IF love is genuine, it will always express itself strongly—with passion, with drive. It will always be hot and it just cannot keep to itself, passive and inactive. It has to overflow and touch the lives of others and the state of things. In fact,...