WHY? Because in the first place, suffering is a consequence of our sins, not to mention our weaknesses, mistakes, and the fact that we have to contend with a supernatural goal that simply goes beyond our natural human powers. Suffering is unavoidable in this life. No...
THE fact that Christ immediately talked about his impending passion and death after being rightly identified by Peter as the “the Christ” (cfr. Mk 8,27-33) tells us that suffering and death, which are unavoidable in our life here on earth, are actually good news to...
SOME people brought a blind man to Christ, obviously so he could be cured of his blindness. (cfr. Mk 8,22-26) What Christ did was to bring the man to a certain place, and instead of curing him immediately, made him recover his sight after some...
WE have a tremendous challenge with the coming of the new digital platform called the Metaverse. It is supposed to be the internet’s next frontier focusing on virtual and augmented reality, which is really quite a development. Like any development in the world, Metaverse offers...
WHILE it’s true that we believe what we want to believe, we should also remember that before wanting to believe, there should be an objective basis for that belief. And that’s because we actually do not choose what to believe. We have to believe what...
Since I was young, I looked at St. Joseph the way I was respecting other saints. I admired his being an industrious carpenter, his taking care of Jesus, his teaching Jesus the carpentry job and in raising him up as a good child but was...
Because they are in danger: 1. From the world. The priest has to live in a world with his mind always on God. He must work in a world where pleasure is found in food and sensual excitement, yet he is expected to find happiness...
In his encyclical, Laudato Si, Pope Francis reminds us that “human life is itself a gift which must be defended from various forms of debasement. Every effort to protect and improve our world entails profound changes in lifestyles, models of production and consumption, and the...
(An excerpt from the Homily of Most Rev. Romulo G. Valles, D.D., Archbishop of Davao, February 2, 2022 during the live streamed mass of the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord and World Day of Consecrated and Religious Life at San Pedro Cathedral Parish,...
EVER wondered why Christ regarded as blessed those who suffer in one way or another here on earth? That’s captured in his proclamation of the beatitudes. (cfr. Lk 6,21-26) The quick answer, of course, is that the beatitudes portray the way love, which is the...