When my husband died 29 years ago, I remembered vividly what my loving, mother-in-law muttered: “Unta una lang ako namatay sangsa iya”. This statement is repeated by many other mothers. I surmised this is due to that universal feeling of love which only the mothers...
Where do you go and how do you spend this week? Starting the Holy Week today reminds us of the essence of the Paschal mystery, the saving work of God that Jesus lived and offered in his passion, death and resurrection. Let us remember Pope...
March is dubbed as women’s month, it’s a time for women to give importance in their femininity. Nowadays women play vital roles in the society. We can notice that women hold important positions may it be in various government, private and church organizations. Some of...
IT’S obviously a serious business when we enter into commitments. That’s when we promise to stand by them faithfully, regardless of the changing circumstances. That’s when we exercise a special kind of love that is supposed to endure till death. But how can we be faithful...
WE have to be most wary of the so-called Frankenstein effect of our new technologies. As defined by some dictionary, the Frankenstein effect is “any agency or creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.” It is like a sweet poison,...
THERE’S a certain urgency to make the family today an effective center of formation. With all the growing developments and complicated challenges of our times, we cannot afford to sit pretty and just allow blind fate to take its course. We have to take the...
Excerpts from Archbishop Romulo G. Valles’ homily during the 42nd Diocesan Clergy of Mindanao Closing Mass and Memorial Mass for Bishop Juan de Dios M. Pueblos last March 8, 2018 at Saint Joseph Cathedral, Butuan City. Meaningful kaayo nako ning closing mass niining 42nd DCM in...
John 3:16 is considered the most beautiful passage in the Holy Bible. It says, “God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him might not perish but might have eternal life.” The so-called sacramental system in our...
“I could not imagine the unequalled heroic role of a mother. She always thinks of her child. No thought of having to rest even at midnight.” This is realization comes from a religious brother after immersing himself with the less fortunate in their charitable reach out....
CONTRARY to what some people think, I believe that planning and strategizing are becoming more relevant today when we can observe a very rapid and even neck-breaking pace of developments and changes. If handled properly with the right attitudes, dispositions and skills, the plans and strategies...