One religious tradition has placed no limits on the greatness of God or on God’s ability to fulfill our dreams, the Judeo-Christian tradition. It begins with Abram, a native of Ur, an ancient city north of the Persian Gulf. In about 1900 B.C., Abram’s family migrated...
4. When did Jesus institute the Holy Eucharist? Jesus instituted the Holy Eucharist on the night before He suffered and died. The institution of the Holy Eucharist is commemorated on Holy Thursday. The greatest Memorial of our Lord’s Eucharist after Holy Thursday is Eater Sunday, the day...
What is the Holy Eucharist? The Holy Eucharist is the sacrament in which Christ Himself is truly though not visibly present as God and Man, with His Glorified Body and Blood, under the appearances of bread and wine, to offer Himself on the altar as our...
Most of the national and world news since 2020 have been depressing. What with COVID, wars, earthquakes, floods, bombing, corruption, and scandals. Let’s read worthwhile, stomach filling and relaxing items like: “Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and...
I cannot decipher some of the weather reports because some words/phrases are too weird/mystical. These are some of my “guessterpretations” of the weather jargon. Southeasterly gusty winds = might rain Southwest monsoon is intensifying = might rain Intertropical convergence zone = might rain Cloudy Skies...
Before the May 9 election the CBCP issued a pastoral letter telling the faithful to be concerned for the welfare of the nation and to ask for accountability and transparency from political/government leaders. Our archdiocese created a political action group to help the faithful in...
Christianity has been in Luzon and Visayas for 500 years whereas it has been in Mindanao for about 200 years. However, the church existed only in the coastal towns of Northern Mindanao (Zamboanga, Cagayan, Butuan, Caraga). The southern part (5 Cotabato and 5 Davao provinces)...
Spain evangelized Luzon and Visayas when Urdaneta, Legaspi occupied Manila in the late 1500s. The mission work was uninterrupted for 500 years. The Jesuits were the first and only Mindanao missionaries beginning the middle of the 1600s. They pulled out two times; in the late...
For 375 years (1521-1896), Spain did not create a free public school system in our nation. Filling up the vacuum, the church opened parochial schools in parishes. The church and parochial schools were in the town poblacion and only children whose parents live in the...
I think the government made a mistake, when in 2016, it added grades 7 and 8 before students can enter high school. Five (5) very bad effects came out when grade 7 was opened in 2016. (1) Thousands of first year high school teachers, lost...