IN this life, in this world, we just have to be ready to get dirty without compromising what is truly essential in our spiritual life. Evil is unavoidable in this world, and we just have to know how to deal with it, always focused on...
Excerpt from Archbishop Romulo G. Valles’ homily during the Holy Mass in celebration of the 100th Fiesta of GKK San Vicente Ferrer and its official declaration as the new Archdiocesan Shrine of St. Vicente Ferrer last April 5, 2018 at Mulig, Toril, Davao City. Karon bisan...
Following our reflection on "Sacramentalized and/or Evangelized", we have to realize the supreme importance of the signs and symbols used in our liturgical celebrations especially during the Paschal or Easter Triduum. They are regulateď by the Church liturgical laws. Common sense reminds us that these external...
Excerpt from Archbishop Romulo G. Valles’ homily during the Chrism Mass last March 29, 2018 at San Pedro Cathedral. Lent will end today before the Lord's supper. Why does the church place the Chrism mass on the last hours of Lent? We saw our sinfulness...
“Throughout the world, the second Sunday of Easter will receive the name Divine Mercy Sunday, a perennial invitation to the Christian World to face, with confidence in divine benevolence, the difficulties and trials that humankind will experience in the years to come.” This was decreed...
THAT’S the ideal we ought to aim at in our relationship with others. Everyone should be a friend of ours, regardless of our differences and conflicts, some of them unavoidable and even unresolvable. This is the clear mark of human and Christian perfection. This is simply...
Recently my eldest daughter attended their school’s senior’s ball and I just realized that my baby is now a sweet, pretty 18-year-old lady. Prior to the ball I accompanied her in search for the perfect gown. I can say that she has grown up for...
WE often ask these questions. How should our freedom be? What law governs it? Where can we find a model or pattern for it? Many people, of course, have their own ideas of freedom. But if we really want to know what it is, where it...
WE need to examine ourselves with respect to this issue. It cannot be denied anymore that there are now more cases of people, especially the young, who are badly affected by fiction stories which obviously can give us a lot of advantages and pleasures but...
SOMETIMES some people ask me if I am liberal-minded or a conservative. My standard answer has always been that I’m neither of them, but I can also be both of them. To clarify, I tell them that I just follow what my Christian faith tells me....