[caption id="attachment_21513" align="alignright" width="350"] (Photo Eli Ritchie Tongo/NurPhoto GETTY)[/caption] Davao City has three big yearly festivals. The first is the March 15 Araw ng Dabaw. Started by the late Mayor Elias Lopez is 1967, it is the biggest government celebration in Mindanao. The second is the...
Excerpts from Archbishop Romulo G. Valles’ homily during the Opening Mass of the 4th National Catholic Media Convention last August 6, 2018 in celebration of the Feast of the transfiguration of our Lord @ San Pedro Cathedral. What would be in the heart of a Catholic...
In last week's Shalom column on Rising Prices, I suggested that the effective organizers of gathering "modern Andrews" and collecting thousands of "modern boys with five loaves and two fish" to feed the millions of poor victims of skyrocketing prices and other forms of violence,...
WITH the many and even endless things that we have to attend to everyday, it is important that we maintain a certain focus and know which parts deserve more emphasis and highlight. At least, this effort will avert the likely possibility of us falling into routine...
CHRIST himself said it very clearly. In fact, he said it as a command. “Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.” (Mt 5,48) We need to feel at home with this divine injunction, and not to be afraid of it. More than that, we...
THIS is quite a tough job. To guide souls is indeed a very delicate job. It requires nothing less than entering into the inner life of a person with the intention of helping and of eventually leading that person to God. But how can this...
IF only to be able to talk in the same wavelength as the young ones who are usually techies, I thought of familiarizing myself with some digital terms that would somehow capture the things I wanted to tell them. And I discovered at least two...
WE all know that we ought to love everyone, since we all belong to one human family, created by God to be his people meant to share his life in heaven and while here on earth. But given our human condition, this love has to...
IT is not, of course, a matter of indulging in commercialization of things spiritual and of religion and piety. That would be simony, a no no. But given the temper of the times, I think we need to be more pro-active in promoting the spiritual...
KNOWING that everyone has a vocation, the next thing we have to do is to find out what precise vocation is meant for us. There are a number of possibilities. One can be an ordinary layperson, or be cleric or a consecrated person. One can...