IT’S well known that our first or immediate reactions to things we see, hear or experience are not quite right. They can even be totally wrong. We should not be surprised by this fact of life. It’s part of our natural human limitations, not to...
A NUMBER of times, Christ complained about the lack of faith of the people of his time. “This generation is a wicked generation: it asks for a sign, and a sign shall not be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet,” he once...
The January 14, 2025 Business World newspaper’s front page story was about a city survey. It rated 500 cities in 62 nations by their traffic congestion, travel time and how many hours commuters (Jeep, Bus, Private Vehicles) lost because of bad traffic. The worst are:...
(An excerpt of the Most Reverend Romulo G. Valles, D.D. in his Homily during the Jubilee of Catechist Day at Holy Cross of Davao College Gym, Sta. Ana Avenue, Davao City, September 27, 2025.) For us, kanang “spes”, kanang hope means one person. “Spes” is in...
The Church once again affirms its commitment of living in dialogue of faith and culture with the Indigenous Peoples, in the light of synodal path as we rejoice the 48th Indigenous People’s Sunday with the theme Lakbay-Laya: Pilgrims of Hope in Ancestral Domain. We are...
As a mother, my love language is acts of service. I love to cook for my family, clean the house and doing the laundry especially now that we have transferred to our old home and now living on our own. During our first few weeks I...
WE are familiar with that part of the gospel where ten lepers approached Christ begging for healing, and they were healed, but only one of them had the fine detail of going back to Christ to thank him, which made Christ very happy, of course....
THIS is the ideal condition for us to be in as we go about our temporal affairs, especially in business and politics, and in the more complicated and challenging sector of the new technologies. We should be as technically competent as possible in these areas,...
THAT gospel episode about a fellow who, by insisting and disturbing a storeowner, finally got the bread he requested for a friend who arrived at his home in the middle of the night (cfr. Lk 11,5-13), reminds us that there is always a need for...
WE should be clear about this point. Everything in our life should be an occasion, a means, a reason for prayer. Whatever the condition and situation in our life, whether considered humanly speaking as good or bad, proper or improper, in solemn or jovial moments,...