HAVE you ever regarded the beatitudes, as proclaimed by Christ, (cfr. Lk 6,20-26) a confusing doctrine, if not a crazy idea, impossible to be lived, and an exaggeration? Don’t worry so much about it. We can be sure that Christ would understand if we have...
WE should never underestimate the importance and indispensability of prayer in our life. It is what keeps us in union with God. And that union is what is meant for us if we truly would like to live as God’s image and likeness, as God...
SINCE God is the creator of all things, and the original and ultimate lawgiver, he should know all things and love them in the proper way. As a corollary to that, we can also say that we can only know and love all things properly...
We were a Spanish colony from 1521 to 1896. For 500 years the Spanish church evangelized us through Spanish orders and congregations like the Dominicans, Augustinians Recoletos, Jesuits, and Benedictines. St. Ezequiel Moreno entered the Augustinians Recoletos Seminary in Monteagudo, Navarra, Spain and accepted his first...
We Catholics celebrate Mama Mary's birthday every September 8, this is exactly nine months after her immaculate conception on December 8 which we also commemorate. There is nothing much said about the early life of Mary in the Scriptures, may it be her childhood or...
Inspired by the Tenth World Meeting of Families in Rome last June 22-26, 2022 with the theme ‘Family Love - a Vocation and a Path to Holiness’, the Commission on Vocation in the Archdiocese of Davao decided to highlight the value of the family. Thus...
(Excerpt from the Homily of Most Reverend Romulo G. Valles, D.D., on the 2nd Mindanao Apostolic Congress on Mercy on August 30, 2022 at San Pedro Cathedral Parish.) The painting of the Divine Mercy shows us the Passion of Jesus in a different way. On Good...
TO be consistent to our Christian identity and vocation, we need to live a certain type of detachment that involves a certain self-emptying that would fill us completely with the spirit of Christ. That’s because in the end what truly matters in our life is...
WE are somehow reminded of this need of ours to adapt all the way to all kinds of persons and situations in life in that gospel episode where Christ was asked why the disciples of John the Baptist fast, while his do not. (cfr. Lk...
THAT gospel episode where Christ asked Peter to put out into deep water and lower his nets for a catch shows us that when we would simply have faith in God, we can do wonders in our spiritual life and apostolate despite the great odds...