WE need to feel the need to develop a heart like that of Christ, a heart that welcomes and accommodates everyone, irrespective of how they are. It is a universal heart that is concerned only with the salvation of everyone. That encounter between Jesus and the...
THAT’S how love should be handled. If we are given love, we should always give back love also. We have to be wary of our tendency to betray this fundamental law of our life, because instead of repaying the love we receive with love, we...
THE reason can be found in that parable Christ told his disciples about the rich man, dressed in purple, and the poor man, Lazarus, who was lying at the rich man’s door, covered with sores and waiting to get even the scraps of food that...
AND, yes, also our death, both of which are unavoidable in our life. In this regard, it’s helpful to consider the following words of Christ which he addressed to his apostles and to everyone who believes in him: “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and...
THAT’S the attitude to have if we have to follow Christ who at one point said, “The greatest among you must be your servant. Whoever exalts himself will be humbled; but whoever humbles himself will be exalted.” (Mt 23,11-12) Those words of Christ were preceded by...
THAT’S a clear mark of a true Christian. Christ has told us clearly: “Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.” (Lk 6,36) There are no ifs and buts in these words. In fact, Christ continued to say: “Do not judge, and you will not...
(Excerpt from the Homily of Most Reverend Romulo G. Valles, D.D., on the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord and World Day of Religious and Consecrated Men and Women, San Pedro Cathedral Parish) But today, the church asks us, requests us, inspires us, to focus...
"We are not naive," a statement from the Executive Director of UN Women as she opened the First Regular Session of the Executive Board last 13-14, February 2023. As she stated the current situation of the most deprived and abused women in the world, I...
THE amazing gospel story of the Transfiguration of the Lord (cfr. Mt 17,1-9) reminds us that in the end Christian life involves a dual process of how to humanize God and at the same time, how to divinize man. And that’s because if Christ was transfigured,...
WHEN Christ said, “I tell you, unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter into the Kingdom of heaven,” (Mt 5,20) we have to understand that Christian life will involve the task of going beyond what simply is material...