Merry Christmas
“Last Christmas I gave you my heart but the very next day you gave it away. This year to save me from tears, I’ll give it to someone special.” So goes a very familiar song of Wham which was released in 1984. It was also in...
Author: Rowena Nuera
Beautiful PREX seminar
The first Parish Renewal Experience (PREX) seminar in the Archdiocese of Davao was held in November 1999 in Sta. Ana Shrine parish. After several years, the seminar was conducted to different parish (Redemptorist, Calinan, Agdao, Peñaplata, Panacan, Toril, Bangkal, Baguio district, and Marahan). But PREX-Sta....
The Miraculous Medal
The Miraculous Medal, which ranks in importance with the holy rosary and the brown scapular among devout Roman Catholics, features the world surrounded by an oval frame, over which were engraved: “O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to you.” Witnessed by...
Summarized story behind the Our Lady of Miraculous Medal
When Our Lady appeared in Fatima in 1917, the Miraculous Medal was well-established in the Church, having been revealed at the 19th century apparition to St. Catherine Labouré in the chapel at the Rue du Bac convent in Paris. The medal was given in this way:...
My prison ministry
It was in 2010 that I first started my apostolate in the female city jail. My first batch of students was 15 female inmates. I was tutoring them for their ALS (Alternative Learning System). It was a rewarding and fulfilling feeling when all of the...
I am a certified rosary-addict
Years ago when the Sta. Ana Shrine Parish was still under the care of the PME fathers, there was a priest who was quite elderly and tall that I had to strain my neck in looking up to him whenever he was whispering something to...
Goodbye Flores de Mayo
The Department of Education (DepEd) in the Philippines is planning to adopt the school calendar of the SUCs (State Universities and Colleges). This would mean that the opening of every school year to all DepEd schools will start on the first day of August and...
If I do not love then I am nothing
February is the month of love. It is a time for Valentine’s Day and a time for remembering love. It is also a time to put emphasis on the importance of love in our lives. For all the over-romanticizing and blatant commercialism during the love month,...
No clear and immediate danger to press freedom
Many of my colleagues in local media will agree with me that the cancellation of Rappler’s registration to operate by Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is not an attack to press freedom. No, it is not an attack to press freedom. Rather, it is a...
Riceponsible Ordinance
Every Filipino wastes at least two tablespoons of rice per day and that is according to a survey conducted by National Food Authority in 2013. If we have to remember the year 2013 was declared by then president Noynoy Aquino as “The National Year of...