This is big news for Interfaith Dialogue! And it is happening during Year 2020 of Interreligious Dialogue (IRD!). What a blessing! I am stating here the good news that it was they who invited us. This invitation is significant. It means that these two Churches, very...
For the past few days, weeks and even months already our country has been experiencing various calamities like typhoons, earthquakes and the devastating pandemic. Worth mentioning are the havoc brought about by typhoon Rolly and Ulysses to properties and even lost lives in many areas...
(An excerpt of the Homily of Most Rev. Romulo G. Valles, D.D., Archbishop of Davao and CBCP President in San Pedro Cathedral during the Funeral Mass of the late Fr. Ricky Flores, Parish Priest of San Pedro Calungsod Quasi-Parish, Baguio District, Davao City, September 22,...
It would be acceptable to say that Christ our King is the king who suffered for us. In fact, the Book of the Prophet Isaiah prophesied about the suffering servant, the Messiah who is to come. During this time of the pandemic and natural calamities, such...
WE have to acknowledge this lifelong predicament of ours and do our best to do something about it. There will always be a gap between our intentions and our deeds, our words and action, our desires and our capabilities, the theory and the practice, the...
IF we truly love God and everybody else, with a love that is nothing less than a participation of the love God has for us and as commanded by Christ to us, then we will never say enough in our self-giving. Even if such attitude would...
NO doubt we have to learn how to contend with the different and even competing and conflicting elements in our life. We have our personal life as well as our family, professional, social, economic, and political life. There are things that need our immediate attention,...
“I've lived a life that's full, I traveled each and every highway, But more, much more than this I did it my way.” These familiar words are sang by Frank Sinatra in his “My Way.” It is a song of hope, a hope based on...
While several old persons who, in their late 60s and late 70s, are heads of State and leaders in business, the situation is almost an exception to the general lack of PARTICIPATION and involvement of retired and older people in the decisions that affect their...
SINCE we have been created in the image and likeness of God, we have to remember that as much as possible, we should identify ourselves with Christ who as the Son of God is the perfect image God has of his own self and thus...