Today July 24, the Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, the Holy Shrine to Saint Anne in the Parish of Sta. Ana marks its 17th year of existence. It was on 24 July 1999 that the then archbishop of Davao, now archbishop emeritus Fernando. R. Capalla, dedicated the...
Mount Carmel is the biblical place where the prophet Elias challenged the priests of Baal in a public spiritual contest which led to their defeat and ruin (1 Kings 18:19-40). It was also in this site where Elias sent his servant seven times to the...
The issue that hug the front pages of national dailies, Facebooks, Twitters and TV and radio breaking reports is the issue of drug lords, drug pushers, drug addicts and the war on drugs being relentlessly waged by the Duterte administration. While Duterte supporters are cheering...
EXCERPTS FROM HOMILY JUNE 24, 2016 FEAST OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST St. John the Baptist Parish, Lasang Si San Juan miandam sa katawhan bag-o pa man gianak si Hesus. Si Hesus atong representante sa Amahan. Kining kamatuoran, gipalawman ni Yanong Muloy sa iyang homiliya. Matud niya, nindot nga...
Because of the evil influence of bad media, men and women of today tend to downgrade the moral value of purity and chastity as far as sex relations are concerned. In some, living together without the blessings of holy matrimony seems a normal way of life,...
This is not about the books and the movies that are called mystery thrillers. No matter how inventive and suspenseful, these are poor copies of what can take place when one manages to pray at the level of meditation and contemplation. There's something distinctive and unique...
The longing for freedom – to be one’s true self—is a deep-rooted human need that claims the respect of others and may involve the struggle to be freed from shame, fears, aggression, and contradiction. The principle of contradiction is enunciated in the phrase: ‘To be or...
Our Father in heaven, you who are sovereign over all of heaven and earth, worshipped in heart and in truth by all creation, we worship you and give you praise. Today is the day you have made and marked according to your unfathomable wisdom. Today...
I suppose everyone is familiar with this phenomenon. In the face of something new, our immediate reaction hovers first in the level of our senses and emotions. Then it goes to our intelligence. Only with some conscious effort can we start reacting in a spiritual...
St. Benedict (d.543) crafted a rule to govern his monks based on prayer and work or in Latin, “Ora et Labora.” In the years after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, the early medieval period was characterized as the age of chaos; however, his...