Love need not be sweet
OF COURSE, in its ideal state, love will always be sweet. In fact, it is going to be a bliss where God “will wipe every tear from the eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of...
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Una kitang gipili ug gihigugma
Sa Ika-67 nga kapistahan sa The Most Sacred Heart Parish Calinan niadtong Agosto 4, miingon ang atong Arsobispo Romulo G. Valles D.D. sa magtotoo, “kamo balaang katawhan ug iya kamo sa Ginoo.” Kining mga pulong iyang gipasabot nga pagkaanindot nga kita gipili sa Ginoo. Iya...
The Power of Prayer Offered with Christ’s Suffering
St. Therese of the Child Jesus never left the monastery until she died. But she was proclaimed patroness of missionaries together with St. Francis Xavier. Why? Because the missionaries asked her to pray that God would answer their many material needs. She prayed and together...
“Higugmaa ang imong isigkatawo”
(Ika-2 nga bahin sa 12 ka bahin sa serye) Dayag kaayo ang panaglahi sa mga tawo. Nagresulta kasagaran sa pagduda, pagselos ug pagkasina, walay pagsalig sa uban, ug sa pagkabahin-bahin, nga sa makadaghan, mag-inaway aron pagdepensa sa kaugalingon o pagdaog-daog sa uban. Mahimong samok ug gubot...
Arrayed in Gold
The Book of Revelation speaks of “a Woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.” This vision is a symbolic description of Mary, taken up into heaven, with the sun, the moon and...
There’s a time for everything
RELAX! Don’t take life’s problems too seriously. They will have their time, but surely they will not have all the time. There’s a time for everything. Things in this life come and go. The only permanent thing and the only thing that can avoid the...
Aging gracefully
MANY people would say it is a matter of the mind, as in mind over matter, or as in a matter of psychologising oneself. In a sense, or at least partially, what they say is correct. But there’s a lot more that is involved in...
“Be a Cloud of Witnesses of faith”
Sa pagsaulog sa kapistahan sa San Alfonso Maria De Liguori Parish, Mandug kaniadtong August 1, 2017, ang atong Arsobispo Romulo G. Valles, D.D. misugod sa pag-ingon nga nakadungog siya ug bag-ong pulong gikan sa letter sa Hebrews nga nag-ingon, “we are surrounded by a cloud...
Paradox, Parables and the Art of Pondering
A paradox is a seeming contradiction. It seems contradictory to say, you must die in order to live. But in the area of faith it hides an eternal truth --- there is life after death. A parable is an image in nature like sowing a seed...
My Life’s Offering
Daily events are like bread and butter that nourish or diminish a person’s energy to continue the quest for life’s meaning and self-fulfillment. There is no end to learning for this is a lifetime experience of newness and renewed relationships for the purpose of self-improvement....