THIS is the lesson we can learn from that episode of Mary visiting her cousin, Elizabeth. (cfr. Lk 1,39-56) Imagine our Lady, already knowing that she was going to be the mother of the Son of God, the highest honor and privilege a creature can...
WHAT a very good deal Christ is giving us! When Peter told him, “We have given up everything and followed you,” Christ immediately reassured him—and us—“Amen, I say to you, there is no one who has given up house or brothers or sisters or mother...
MAY 29 is dedicated liturgically to the Memorial of Mary, Mother of the Church. This Marian title was defined sometime ago due to the fact that if Mary is the Mother of Christ who is God, then she can rightly be called as Mother of...
Very few know and understand exorcism. In 1973, William Blatty wrote a novel entitled The Exorcist which was a movie hit starring Linda Blair as the possessed child and Max Von Sydow as the exorcist. Author Blatty said his novel was based on an incident...
(Homily of Most Rev. Romulo G. Valles, D.D., Archbishop of Davao during the Presbyteral Ordination of Rev. Oliver Alidon Ganas at Most Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish in Calinan, Davao City last May 22, 2023.) Unang Pamalandong uban kang Rev. Oliver, ang atong assembly with the...
Life is not just living in safe grounds. It is not settling for "what is" especially if you can still be more. It is not mere hiding in our comfort zones to secure ourselves only. Inspired by the Holy Spirit, we have so many volunteers in...
PENTECOST Sunday ends the Easter Season and leads us back to what we call as Ordinary Time in our liturgical calendar, the timepiece that enables us to live sacramentally with Christ as he continues with his redemptive work through the Holy Spirit. It reminds us that...
THAT gospel episode where Christ asked Peter 3 times whether Peter loves him (cfr. Jn 21,15-19) somehow reminds us that love, which is supposed to be limitless and to be given without measure, needs to develop in stages given our human condition. As the gospel narrates,...
THAT’S what we are meant to be. That’s what Christ prayed very fervently just before he was arrested and before he completed his redemptive mission through his passion, death and resurrection. It was like his last and final wish for us! “That they may all...
“I GAVE them your word, and the world hated them, because they do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world.” (Jn 17,14) These words are part of the priestly prayer Christ said just before his arrest that led to...