“Since sin was first committed by our first parents, Adam and Eve, there will always be a struggle and there will always be an enmity between us and the serpent,” CBCP President Arch. Romulo Valles said during the University of the Immaculate Conception Fiesta last...
Niadtong unang Philippine Conference on New Evangelization niadtong 2013, si Padre Catalino Arevalo namulong bahin sa Popular devotions sa mga Pilipino. Iyang gipahayag nga subay sa pagtulun-an sa Simbahan, dili nato tamayon ang popular devotions. Hinonoa, atong tagaan og rispeto ug dakong bili, tungod kay ang...
The road to spiritual perfection is akin to a climber on a mountain ascent. The climbing begins at an early age when the child starts learning from parents, truths about God and the purpose of living, when following Jesus becomes the priority in living. Like...
In this year of the Clergy and Consecrated Persons there will be many ideas, plans and projects to focus on for their welfare as individuals and as community. I have an idea which others can develop. Almost all priests and consecrated persons were born in a parish...
Every year in the Philippines from December 16 to 24, Catholic churches and some chapels celebrate Misa de Gallo or Simbang Gabi. The history will tell us that this Misa de Gallo or Simbang Gabi is a novena of Masses in the early morning hours, around...
This is not about the 2002 Star Cinema movie entitled Nine Mornings starred by Piolo Pascual and Donita Rose. This is not about the Nine Mornings of a Vincentian festivity either. Rather, nine-mornings is the slang expression for simbang gabi or misa de gallo. In my...
YES, that’s what the liturgical season of Advent is. It’s a period of a love-filled waiting not only for the most joyous Christmas, the birth of Christ, but also and most especially of the second coming of Christ. We need to look forward to that coming...
IF we have the mind to follow Christ’s self-emptying and his advice to deny ourselves daily, it might be a good idea to make it a daily habit to give up something---be it a matter of comfort, preference, convenience, opinion, food & drink, etc. To be...
The youth of today or the so called millennials are the new generation who are born in the midst of the great technology boom. Hence, they were also referred to as “digital natives”, this is according to Mr. Ricardo Rubio Santos, author of Personal Development,...
A youth is more than the make-up she wears, the branded sleeves he puts on his shoulders, the Dota game he plays, the posts she follows on twitter, or the persona he portrays. Most of us see them as vain, lazy, conceited, reckless, overconfident, too...