THAT Biblical story about King Solomon who surprisingly in his old age started to worship strange gods (cfr. 1 Kings 11,4-13) reminds us that what happened to him can also happen to us. Many reasons can come to mind. For one, we may not be...
THAT story in the Bible about the Queen of Sheba being very impressed with the wisdom of Solomon (cfr. 1 Kings 10,1-10) and that gospel episode about Christ telling the people that what defiles a man is what comes out from the heart rather than...
IN that gospel episode where Christ complains about the inconsistency and hypocrisy of the leading Jews at that time (cfr. Mk 7,1-13), we are reminded of the danger of being trapped in our earthly affairs and in our human ways while neglecting what is truly...
THIS is something that we all have to learn as early as possible and as best that we can. If we only realize what the Blessed Sacrament is, the only thing that we can do is indeed to adore it, because the Blessed Sacrament is nothing...
(An excerpt of the homily of the Most Rev. Romulo G. Valles, D.D., on the 41st Parochial Fiesta of Sto. Niño Parish, Kaputian, Island Garden City of Samal, Davao del Norte, January 21, 2024.) Unsa may ma ato? Unsa may bring house nato ining pistaha? Sto....
A Catholic should know by heart 4 prayers: 1. Our Father 2. Hail Mary, Glory Be, 3. Apostle Creed, 4. the Rosary. A Catholic should pray every day for two reasons: first, to thank the Lord that he and his family are alive; second, to...
THAT’S what the readings of the 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B, reminds us of. From the Book of Job, we are already warned that our life here on earth is some kind of a warfare. (cfr. 7,1) And St. Paul in the Second...
THE Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, celebrated on February 2, offers that precious lesson about humility, a fundamental virtue that engenders and enables us to do a lot of good things, like being compassionate all the way to offering even one’s life for...
THEY are supposed to go together always. The universal call to holiness is also a call to do apostolate. Said in another way, to be holy or to be a saint is also to be an apostle. The quest for sanctity and the duty to...
“LORD, forgive the wrong I have done.” That’s from Psalm 32. We can make use of this psalm to express our intention for forgiveness because we all know that despite our effort to be faithful and all that, we somehow manage to fall. We should not...