[caption id="attachment_10195" align="alignright" width="350"] Photo: sacs-stvi.org[/caption]I consider my family as an average Catholic family when I was growing up as a child. We go to mass every Sunday together as a family and we pray the rosary everyday together as a family. On our family...
As early as the first week of December, we have been preparing for the Belen or nativity scene. It was to be placed in our chapel come December 16, the start of the Aguinaldo Masses. Probably not like any other nativity scenes, ours is just...
#Help Rebuild Lumad Communities And Schools It has been my fourth time to celebrate Christmas in this southern part of Mindanao – Gen. Santos City. The early morning Aguinaldo Masses in the parish churches are overflowing to the brim. Parishioners woke up as early as just...
IT was my second time to be able to visit Tandag City. My first visit to Tandag City was in 2012 when we brought school supplies for the poor Manobo school children in the hinterlands of Surigao del Sur. It was in July 2011 when...
THE very first time I ever handled a class as a teacher was as a young seminarian. Part of our exposure in our seminary formation program was to teach. Incidentally, it was in San Pedro College in Davao City that I had my teaching exposure....
[caption id="attachment_9603" align="alignright" width="350"] Photo courtesy: Fr. Tony G. Hidalgo[/caption]At the foothills of the Sierra Madre mountains in Rizal Province may be found a place of quiet and serenity. It is home to a group of religious sisters who call themselves as the Dominican Sisters...
[caption id="attachment_9440" align="alignright" width="350"] The opening of the Dominican Jubilee Year at Santo Domingo Church in Quezon City on Nov. 7. (Photo: Maria Tan | CBCP News)[/caption]In a Papal Bull entitled “Gratiarum omnium largitori” (Giver of All Gifts) dated December 22, 1216, Pope Honorius III...
The Quadricentennial Pavilion of the Royal and Pontifical University of Santo Tomas in Manila was the venue of the Jubilee Retreat of the Dominican Family in the Asia-Pacific Region. The Jubilee Retreat was held last October 12-14, 2015 as part of the preparations of the...
[caption id="attachment_9192" align="alignright" width="350"] Photo courtesy OurVoices FB Page[/caption]I first met AG Saño in 2008, when I was assigned in our mission station in Camiguin Norte, Babuyan Islands. AG, whose name stands for Amado Guerrero, is a landscape architect, a mural artist, a photographer and...
It was in 2012, when I was assigned in Mindanao for the first time, that I had my first encounter with the Lumads in Surigao Del Sur. We found out about how the Manobo school children in Sitio Liangabon, Barangay Calatngan, San Miguel, Surigao del...