Kadaghanan nato nakadungog na niining pulong nga FLORES DE MAYO. Mao kini ang kinatsila nga pulong, nga sa ato pa, “mga bulak sa Mayo.” Sumala sa atong maobserbahan nga ang Mayo mao ang bulan nga tingpamulak o tingpamuklad sa mga bulak. Busa mao kini ang...
We were discovered by Magellan on March 16, 1521 when he accidentally landed in Limasawa, Leyte. Before this date, we had no elections. The ruler of the Balangay tribe was the strongest in battle who had killed all his rivals. From March 16, 1521 to December...
THE gospel of the 3rd Sunday of Easter, Year C, (cfr. Jn 21,1-19) reminds us that like the youthful apostle John, we have to rightly recognize Christ who is the personification of love that is the key to fidelity as told by Christ to Peter....
“JESUS said to Philip, ‘Where can we buy enough food for them to eat?’ He said this to test Philip, because he himself knew what he was going to do.” (Jn 6,5-6) With these words, we should realize that we should never doubt God’s constant love...
“FOR the one whom God sent speaks the words of God.” (Jn 3,34) With these words of Christ, we are made to understand that Christ is the word of God who would lead us to eternal life. The immediate conclusion that we can derive from...
“GOD so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life.” (Jn 3,16) We should make these words of Christ reverberate always in our mind and heart. No matter what happens...
“YOU must be born from above.” (Jn 3,7) That’s what Christ told Nicodemus who obviously was astounded by those words. “How can this happen?” was his instant reply. And so Christ had to explain to him the whole business of the need for us to be...
THE feast of St. Mark, the Evangelist, on April 25, reminds us that we have the duty to preach the Good News about Christ to the whole world. Christ said it very clearly: “Go into the whole world and proclaim the Gospel to every creature....
(An excerpt from the Homily of Most Rev. Romulo G. Valles, D.D., Archbishop of Davao, April 16, 2022 during the live streamed mass of the Easter Vigil at San Pedro Cathedral Parish, San Pedro Street, Davao City) “Kining mga ritual, kining mga liturgy, liturhiya labi na...
During Holy Week, most TV stations, YouTube, Netflix, etc. show religious films. My favorite films during Holy Week are: first, “Quo Vadis” a 1951 MGM movie starring Robert Taylor as Marcus Vinicius, Deborrah Kerr as Christian slave, Lygia and Peter Ustinor as Emperor Nero. The...