A checklist will help in preparing for the Christmas office party. Do we have the money? If yes, agree now on the date. If not, it means the employees will give cash. This might spoil the Christmas spirit because the Christmas bonus goes back to...
(An excerpt of the homily of the most Reverend romulo g. valles DD during the canonical establishment of Christ the King Parish and installation of it’s first parish priest Rev. Fr. Dioscoro Saniel at Kauswagan, Panabo City, Davao Del Norte, November 24, 2024.) Unsay goal sa...
We just closed the liturgical year by putting Christ first and foremost as our King. However, long before the Advent season started, we Filipinos already began the festive mood last September. Commercial activity heightens as we approach Christmas. Christmas songs and decors everywhere, coupled with...
IT’S the Season of Advent again and with it we make another beginning of the liturgical year. If we truly understand the significance of the liturgy in our life, we know that we really should prepare ourselves seriously for this new beginning, having it clear...
CHRIST explicitly said these words. “Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.” (Lk 21,33) We should take Christ’s words most seriously because in them we have the surest guide we can have as we face the different situations, conditions,...
TODAY’S ideologies and isms clearly show the effects of godlessness. Things like Wokeism, Secularism, Gender Ideology and many other isms are openly declaring godless doctrine and practices. They are trapped in their own reasoning alone, unable to see the global picture that the faith in...
THAT’S what Christ practically told the crowd as he described how the end of the world would be. (cfr. Lk 21,12-19) “They will seize and persecute you, they will hand you over to the synagogues and to prisons, and they will have you led before...
IT’S understandable that since we are now at the end of another liturgical year, the gospel readings focus on this truth of our faith—that both time and the world will end. Thus, in one gospel episode, Christ was asked about the signs that such end...
THAT gospel episode where Christ praised a poor widow for giving all that she had to live on to the treasury of the temple (cfr. Lk 21,1-4) graphically reminds us that Christian poverty, which is what is required for true Christian love to reign in...
November is National Children's Month and this year's celebration is centered on ending violence against children, with the theme "Break the Prevalence, End the Violence: Protecting Children, Creating a Safe Philippines!", as posted on the website of the Council for the Welfare of Children. Data...