THAT gospel story about the blind man, Bartimaeus, (cfr. Mk 10,46-52) should remind us that we should immediately go to God and follow what he tells us whenever we are at the end of our powers and resources. Let’s abandon ourselves in his ever-wise providence...
WE have to be ready when we are made to suffer in one way or another. And that can only mean that we assume the mind, the attitude of Christ toward suffering for us to find meaning and value to our sufferings. This much we can...
“JESUS said to them, ‘I tell you that anyone who leaves home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and for the gospel, will receive much more in this present age. He will receive a hundred times more...
WE should be clear about what our true wealth is. It definitely is not anything that comes from the world—money, fame, power, etc. Our true wealth is when we finally are with God, when our heart and mind and everything else in our life go...
On March 2024 Hong Kong Lawmakers unanimously passed a new National Security Law (art 23). This law was first proposed in 2003 but dropped when about 500,000 Hongkongers protested in 2020. China passed a new National Security Law. The Beijing law punished secession, subversion, terrorism...
(An excerpt of the homily of the Most Rev. Romulo G. Valles, D.D., during the 35th GKK Fiesta of Our Lady of Peace, Davao Executive Homes, May 19, 2024.) Ingon ni San Pablo we are fools for Christ. Nangabuang ta kay Kristo. But you are showing,...
The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) declared that every Holy Trinity Sunday will be celebrated Basic Ecclesial Communities (BEC) Sunday in the Philippines. The Holy Trinity is the source of our Church’s unity and mission. The BEC, since it is “a new way...
WITH the celebration of the Solemnity of the Blessed Trinity, what we are reminded of is the truth of our faith that we too have to pattern our life after the Trinitarian life of God. In other words, that our life should also be Trinitarian,...
IF we truly identify ourselves with Christ, as we should, then we have to realize that we have to love God and everybody else all the way. And this can go even to the extent of offering our very life, since, as we have been...
THIS was clearly expounded by Christ himself when he said, “If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed than with two hands to go into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire.” (Mk 9,43) And he...