ON the Feast of St. Joseph the Worker on May 1, we are reminded of the crucial role our ordinary work has in our life. We need to convince ourselves more strongly that our work, whatever it is but as long as it is an...
THE readings of the Mass on Tuesday of the 5th Week of Easter (cfr. Acts 14,19-28; Jn 14,27-31) happily show us that we can have peace even amid the most terrible predicaments in our earthly life as long as we follow Christ. In the first reading,...
WE have to be clear about the intimate relation between the virtues of humility, magnanimity and magnificence. Often these virtues are understood as somehow opposed to each other. Humility is often understood as projecting a low profile, hidden, passive and kind of indifferent to the things...
In May of 1979, the summer following the end of our kindergarten class, my maternal grandmother took my younger sister and me under her wing to participate in the Flores de Mayo at the GKK Sagrada Familia Chapel of DDF Village in Mandug, where we...
(An excerpt of the homily of the Most Rev. Romulo G. Valles, D.D., during the rite of Dedication of Our Lady of Miraculous Medal Parish, Indangan, Davao City - April 18, 2024.) Ang first signal sa rite, the water to remind us that this church, this...
In the beginning, the earth, created by God, was as good as heaven. But it was exploited by sinful human activities, and now cries like a poor person. Mary’s YES to become the Mother of God granted her a crucial role in renewing the earth....
THE gospel reading for the Mass on the 5th Sunday of Easter, Year B, talks about Christ telling his disciples that he is the true vine and God is the vine grower. Every branch that does not bear fruit, he said, would be taken away...
THE readings of the Mass on Friday of the Fourth Week of Easter (cfr. Act 13,26-33; Jn 14,1-6) remind us of our duty to really know who Christ is since he is the very pattern of our humanity, the savior of our damaged humanity. How...
THAT’S “Go forth, the Mass is ended” in Latin. With these words, we are reminded that all of us who attend Mass are being sent forth the way Christ sent his apostles to “go into the whole world and proclaim the Gospel to every creature.”...
THE readings of the Mass on Wednesday of the 4th Week of Easter (cfr. Acts 12,24-13,5; Jn 12,44-50) somehow remind us of the need to spread the word of God, which is another way of saying that we have to make God not only known...