What a fitting day to celebrate, as the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) declares, the Basic Ecclesial Community (BEC) Sunday on the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity. As the Holy Trinity is a celebration of the One God in Three Persons, the...
THIS is the clear lesson we can draw from the Solemnity of the Most Blessed Trinity. If we are God’s image and likeness, meant to share in his life and nature, then we have to realize that just like the Blessed Trinity where the three...
BEGGING your pardon for that rather naughty title of this piece, what I would like to bring out is that if we truly have the Christian spirit, that spirit should animate not only our spiritual soul but also our body all the way to our...
WONDERING what these are? Well, the worst evil is when man dared to crucify Christ. Nothing can be worse than that, insofar as we are concerned. Imagine, killing the Son of God himself! And yet such evil also caused the greatest good: man’s salvation due...
WE should never forget this basic character of our life here on earth. Whatever we do, whatever situation we may find ourselves in, we should realize that we are always given a choice of whether we want to do the things of God, to follow...
THIS is how our life should be lived. No matter how brilliant and intellectually and naturally gifted we are, we should always be guided by faith, making it the abiding light of our life, otherwise we would miss the most important goal of our life. Faith...
THAT’S right! Christian morality goes beyond natural morality that pursues only some earthly and temporal goals. It goes beyond these earthly goals, not suppressing them, but elevating and purifying them to the supernatural order. And that’s because Christian morality is based on the most basic identity...
(An excerpt of the Most Reverend Romulo G. Valles D.D. During on opening remarks in the Archbishop Thibault Media Awards, Ateneo De Davao University, Jacinto, Davao City, May 31, 2025.) Good afternoon everyone! It's really a joy for me to be with all of you today as...
Pentecost is a Greek (Hemera) and a latin word meaning fifty. It refers to the coming of the Holy Spirit. This Christian festival is based on the much older Jewish festival of Shabuoth celebrated on the 50th day after the Passover. In 1897 Pope Leo...
WITH the Solemnity of Pentecost, we are assured that God in the Holy Spirit is always with us, intervening always in our lives to lead us to where we should be in our definitive life, i.e., to be truly God’s image and likeness, sharers of...