These days, amidst the soaring cases of COVID 19 infections, the nation rejoices. 2021 Tokyo Olympic medalists, Hilidyn Diaz, Carlo Paalam, Nesthy Fetecio, Eumir Marcial brought home the biggest haul of medals since the country participated in the world’s foremost international sports competition. Such feat...
Honoring someone is a gesture of gratitude and remembering. We bring to memory our grateful appreciation of what a person has achieved or did during his or her lifetime. Even secular and cause-oriented or religious groups are honored because of certain individuals whose lives transcend...
About five hundred years ago, a group of Augustinian fathers ushered the mission of evangelization in the Philippines. They were followed by the Dominicans and the Jesuits later. Initially part of the Spanish colonialization and conquest, the early missionaries did more than being an instrument...
If someone calls you green minded, what do you feel? Like many, you feel insulted or embarrassed. The word is associated with a “dirty mind” referring to someone who is preoccupied with thinking about sex in an indecent way. But there is also another meaning,...
Recently, I visited a friend who just came back from quarantine due to COVID 19 infection and suffering from depression. He told me, “Where is God now? Why did He allow this pandemic to happen?” The question is as relatable and real to many who...
Reflection on Chapter 10, Amoris Laetitia,” The Spirituality of Marriage and Family” What does Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation, “Amoris Laetitia” (Joy of Love), say about marriage as a vocation for mission? First, the document affirms what has been said in previous papal documents on marriage and...
The Jubilee Year of Mercy is an unusual jubilee event. It is both a happy and disturbing. Jubilees are always celebration of joyful fellowship and marked by festivities. They are celebrations of gratitude and recognition of accomplishments and progress by a community or society. Unlike...
The Catechism of the Catholic Church explains that “the liturgy in which the mystery of salvation is accomplished concludes with the sending forth (mission) of the faithful, so that they fulfill God’s will in their daily lives.” (CCC 1332). This mission means that we carry...