WITH all the rapid developments we are having these days, giving rise to a number of contentious issues, we need to find a way of how to pursue the truth that should always go with charity. It’s a tall order that we should just try...
IT’S easy to understand why Mary is honored as Mother of the Church the day after Pentecost Sunday. And that’s because Pentecost, or the coming of the Holy Spirit, being the birth of the Church, it’s logical that Mary, being the Mother of Christ and...
DEFINITELY, it is not in being adorned with sorts of medals and public recognition, showered with all kinds of honors and privileges. It’s rather in being simple and humble, in having a heart completely emptied of its ego and filled with love and compassion for...
THIS is the ideal condition for us to be in. Given the way we are, as willed by God himself, our Creator and Father, we need to be always with him all the time even as we go through our earthly and temporal affairs. To...
Kadayawan means a very fruitful big harvest festival. The source is Madayaw, a Dabawnon word for good or great. All tribes since the beginning have accepted religiosity as the most important part of their lives. The earliest civilizations (Turkey, Egypt, Persia, Inca, etc.) focused on...
For the past few days I've been feeling anxious and overwhelmed about what things to do as we are about to go back living in our old home. This time it will only be me and my daughters who are on their mid-twenties. We left...
The city should post in prominent premises the following notices 1. Maintain Environmental Hygiene Smoking, including electronic cigarettes is prohibited in No Smoking areas. Offenders are liable to maximum fine of P1,500 Keep all areas clean and do not litter. Offenders are liable to a fine...
(An excerpt of the Most Reverend Romulo G. Valles D.D. in his Homily during the Priestly Ordination of Rev. Fr. Francis Flores, August 4, 2025 at San Pedro Cathedral Parish.) Brothers and sisters, Rev. Francis, it is a bit of a surprise that we are here...
ONCE again, we are reminded of this need for vigilance in that gospel episode where Christ reminded his disciples to be like the servants who “await their master’s return from a wedding, ready to open immediately when he comes and knocks.” (Mt 12,36) He prefaced this...
CHRIST said it clearly. “If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For he that will save his life, shall lose it; and he that shall lose his life for my sake, shall find...