Strange Visitors?
It happened for quite a long time now, if I can recall. The first visitor came in early or mid 1980s. I call it strange because I didn’t know him. He must have heard about Bishop Benny S. Tudtud and me. But Bp. Benny could not...
Category Archives: Opinion
Sangyaw sa Ngalan ni Hesus
(An excerpt from the Homily of Most Rev. Romulo G. Valles, D.D., Archbishop of Davao, May 1, 2022 during the live streamed mass of the 58th Parochial Fiesta of St. Joseph the Worker Parish, Sasa, Davao City.) Now, kining pisataha malipay pud si Saint Joseph nga...
Go out and Vote!
Voting is both our right and duty. Aside from the freedom of expression, the cornerstone of every democratic country is the right to vote. The vibrancy of any democracy is anchored on our full freedom to fully participate in electing our officials in government. Article 21 of...
Let’s learn to recognize the voice of Christ
“My sheep hear my voice; I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish. No one can take them out of my hand.” (Jn 10,27-28) What reassuring words of Christ that also contain a duty that we have...
The implication of Christ as Bread of Life
IT caused great astonishment when Christ told his disciples that he was the Bread of Life that they have to eat. “How can this man give us his Flesh to eat?” was their immediate response. (Jn 6,52) And so, Christ had to explain what he meant....
Christ and our life in the world
AS we all know, Christ makes himself the Bread of Life that gives us the true divine life even as we traverse in this world that is full of evil. It’s a life that knows how to unify the different elements in our life, the...
To Jesus through Mary
REMEMBER that beautiful gospel episode about the wedding in Cana. (cfr. Jn 2,1-11) Mary, very much a woman who always sees details often missed by men, noticed that the celebration was running out of wine, and so she asked her son to do something about...
The world as pathway to heaven
WE should be very clear about this basic truth about the world in general or about the whole of nature that has been created by God. We need to realize that as God’s creation, the whole world of nature has been imprinted with God’s laws...
To be authentically Christian
THIS should be our constant concern. And to pursue it, we should try our best to be truly “alter Christus.” We have to identify ourselves with Christ in everything—in spirit, in thoughts, intentions and desires, in words and deeds. In other words, we have to...
The Unending Mercy Of God: The Divine Mercy
(An excerpt from the Homily of Most Rev. Romulo G. Valles, D.D., Archbishop of Davao, April 24, 2022 during the live streamed mass of the celebration of the 2nd Sunday of Easter (Divine Mercy Sunday) at the St. Anthony de Padua Parish, Agdao, Davao City) Kining...