(An excerpt from the Homily of Most Rev. Romulo G. Valles, D.D., Archbishop of Davao, March 2, 2022 during the live streamed mass of Ash Wednesday in San Pedro Cathedral Parish, San Pedro Street, Davao City) Sayud kita Miyerkules sa Badlis is the beginning of the...
THE gospel of the 2nd Sunday of Lent brings us to that wonderful event in the life of the apostles when some of them witnessed that amazing transfiguration of Christ. “While he (Christ) was praying his face changed in appearance and his clothing became dazzling...
“UNLESS your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter into the Kingdom of heaven.” (Mt 5,20) With these words, Christ is telling us how our righteousness should be. And that is that we have to have the righteousness that truly...
“Ask, and it shall be given you: seek, and you shall find: knock, and it shall be opened to you. For every one that asketh, receiveth: and he that seeketh, findeth: and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened.” (Mt 7,7-8) The words of Christ...
“This generation is an evil generation; it seeks a sign, but no sign will be given it, except the sign of Jonah.” (Lk 11,29) With these words of Christ, we are somehow asked to develop a strong faith by going through continuing conversion all throughout...
YES, we have to be most wary of these two spiritual anomalies that can easily come to us. In that gospel episode where Christ talked about the last judgment, he told the goats—the evil men—that precisely they had these anomalies. “Depart from me, you accursed, into...
WE have to be wary of the danger to turn our prayer into mere babble of words. Christ pointed this out when he said: “In praying, do not babble like the pagans, who think that they will be heard because of their many words.” (Mt...
The Church gives this season of Lent as a time for repentance. There is sadness amidst us brought about by the realization of the sins we commit. But there is also joy as we savor the love and compassion of the Lord giving Himself for...
The most famous historical event in Philippine history was the so-called Edsa Revolution. Thousands of people swarmed into Edsa Avenue on 25 February 1986 to face the armored tanks of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. Who were these brave individuals and what did they...
(An excerpt from the Homily of Most Rev. Romulo G. Valles, D.D., Archbishop of Davao, February 26, 2022 during the live streamed mass Ordination to Diaconate of Bro. Emmanuel V. Angelitud, OCD, at the Discalced Carmelite Fathers Holy Family Novitiate House Rambutan St., Tugbok Proper,...