The Word Leads To The Way, The Truth, And The Life” (Is. 61:1-4/Jn. 14:6). This is the theme for this year’s National Bible Month. Four former Presidents of the Philippines, through their respective proclamations saw the need for the Word of God in building the nation....
(Excerpt from the Homily of Most Reverend Romulo G. Valles, D.D., on the Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord, San Pedro Cathedral Parish, San Pedro Street, Davao City at January 8, 2023.) The magi represent us, so somehow we are told today “watch out because...
IT’S amazing that Christ would consider as blessed those conditions when we appear to be the receiving end of all the injustices and unfairness we can encounter in our life. That’s what the Beatitudes express. (cfr. Mt 5,1-12) That’s because the Beatitudes describe the way Christ...
WE have to train ourselves to look for Christ always, beginning in the little ordinary things of our daily routine. By so doing, we can find him and start to enter into the dynamic of his love for us, which is what is proper to...
ESPECIALLY in our relation with God and with others, we need to give our all. Especially in our duties toward them, we should do our best to carry them out wholeheartedly. The consideration of prudence and discretion may appear to us as if we have to...
JANUARY 25 is the Feast of that dramatic conversion of St. Paul. It’s a feast that reminds us that Christ can choose anybody to work with him as an apostle, because in fact, everybody is meant to be one, if he truly is consistent with...
ONE of the essential characteristics of a person is his life of interiority. That is where the world of a person is hidden from the gaze of ‘strangers.’ It’s his world of intimacy, his sanctuary, which he only knows and dwells. It is where he...
THAT’S true! Love and all its different manifestations always work for unity among ourselves, irrespective of our unavoidable differences and conflicts. In fact, these latter conditions can occasion a greater and purer brand of love. At the same time, hatred and all its cohorts do nothing...
The late Pope Benedict XVI on January 18, 2012, marking the first day of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity (January 18-25), made this inspiring yet challenging message, “How can we give convincing witness if we are divided?” The Week of Prayer for Christian...
(Excerpt from the Homily of Most Reverend Romulo G. Valles, D.D., on the 55th Feast of the Sto. Niño at the Shrine of the Holy Infant Jesus of Prague, Shrine Hills, Matina, Davao City, January 15, 2023.) First nga pamalandong in this beautiful day is this,...