Mosunod karon ang ika-2 bahin sa akong gipaambit ngadto sa mga delegado sa MSPC XVI niadtong Oktobre 16-19. Niadtong tuig 2013, atong gitun-an ug baliktuon ang Kredo subay sa sugyot ni Papa Benedikto XVI. Sa maong pagtuon, nahinumduman nato ang atong gitoohan bahin sa Simbahan -...
We read of humanitarian support being extended to returning Marawi internally displaced persons (IDPs) rendered homeless by the armed hostilities. As concerned brethren in Christ, we also have tried to do our part to reach out to various needy persons, foremost in our own families...
The CBCP-initiated Year of the Clergy and Consecrated Life starts this Advent Season 2018. In simple terms the bishops wish us all to focus our prayer, reflection and celebration on the diocesan priests and on vowed men, women religious and seculars so that their life...
IF Christ had to empty himself if only to be like us and with us, should we not also try to reciprocate the same process of emptying ourselves so that we can be like him and be with him? St. Paul precisely had this in mind...
The Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus as King of the Universe marks the end of the liturgical year. The 52 weeks beginning January and ending on December 31 of the civil calendar is divided into the seasons of the year in the liturgical calendar. The Advent...
“What’s the trigger for your gout, Father?” “My gout? Why do you want to know, Pete?” “‘Coz maybe I could avoid it when I get old one day,” he munched on his fried chicken. “Old?” I raised my eyebrows at him. “Nah, I meant...
THIS is no gratuitous, baseless pursuit. We are not indulging in some fantasy when we exert the effort to make Christ alive in us. In the first place, because Christ himself is alive. He continues to be with us and is, in fact, actively intervening...
Our national hero, Dr. Jose P. Rizal once wrote, “Those who do not know where they came from would not know where they are going.” The original in Tagalog is, “Ang hindi marunong lumingon sa pinanggalingan ay hindi makakarating sa paroroonan.” Clearly, the social, economic, political,...
As the Liturgical Year comes to an end, the feast of Christ the King recalls for us the great messianic mission of Jesus in his teaching of the values of the Kingdom of God [the Father] to the world – in his time, our time,...
(A day of prayer for persecuted Christians) Archbishop Romulo G. Valles D. D. delivered his homily during a special day of prayer for all persecuted Christians all over the world last November 22, 2017, 5:30 p.m. at San Pedro Cathedral. The Archbishop stressed out few examples...