IT’S a skill and art that we need to develop. We cannot deny that we have different aspects of our life that can be competing and conflicting, and we should just learn how to blend them as best that we could into some meaningful unity...
Q. Any chance of a clearer mining policy? A. House Bill No 3763 filed on December 1, 2010 want to regulate rationally the exploring and use of minerals. Malacañang wants to get more mining royalties. The Problem is in existing mining agreements the royalty is only...
(Homily of Most Rev. Romulo G. Valles, D.D., Archbishop of Davao during the 74th Parochial Fiesta of Sta. Ana Shrine Parish, July 26, 2023) “O Lord, God of our fathers, who bestowed, on Sts. Anne and Joachim this grace, that on them should be born the...
The Dogma of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (BVM), defined by Venerable Pope Pius XII on November 1, 1950 in his apostolic constitution Munificentissimus Deus (Most Bountiful God), is the belief that Our Lady was taken up – body and soul – into...
THAT gospel episode of Christ walking on the water should remind us that God can intervene in our life in some mysterious and extraordinary way. (cfr. Mt 14,22-33) In other words, he can surprise us, he can come to us when we are not expecting...
WHY? Because Christ said so. “Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. What profit would there...
WE have to be ready to understand as quickly as possible some of the incredible teachings of Christ. One of them is that we need to die in order to live. (cfr. Jn 12,24-26) “Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life...
THAT story of the Canaanite woman who practically nagged Christ for the favor of driving a demon that tormented her daughter (cfr. Mt 15,21-28) teaches us the great lesson to ever strengthen our faith especially when we are faced with difficulties and challenges that look...
THAT gospel episode where Christ shocked his apostles when they saw him walking on the water (cfr. Mt 14,22-36) reminds us that the ways of God can overwhelm us and even throw us into the grip of fear. We should just remember what Christ told...
IT is said that when Christ saw a big crowd as he disembarked from boat, he was moved to pity and started to preach, cure the sick and even feed them with just a few loaves of bread and a few fish which he miraculously...