[caption id="attachment_8940" align="alignright" width="350"] Suor Angeles Galvez Dominguez and the students of Madre Pia Notari Schools in Sta. Cruz[/caption]The community calls her Suor Angie. She is the Local Superior of the Crucified Sister Adorers of the Holy Eucharist which runs the Madre Pia Notari Schools in Santa...
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...
[caption id="attachment_8928" align="alignright" width="350"] Andrea and Virginia Masion[/caption]Everyone loves to call them ate Andring and ate Billy. They are the secret weapons of the parish’s convent. These two sisters have been serving the parish taking care of our priests since the diocese took over the parish which...
[caption id="attachment_8902" align="alignright" width="350"] Moses parts the Red Sea[/caption] His name is associated with the phrase “To Give Birth.” God had chosen Moses not only to set his people free, to bring them to a land to live in but also to convey the deeper intention of...
[caption id="attachment_8883" align="alignright" width="350"] Photo courtesy Tagakolu Aku FB Page[/caption]READING the recent encyclical of Pope Francis Laudato Si’ was truly uplifting for me. The encyclical examines and reflects on Climate Change, an issue I am passionate about, from the perspective of faith. It fearlessly critiques...
[caption id="attachment_8879" align="alignright" width="350"] Photo courtesy I Vote Good Philippines FB Page[/caption]As a Catholic Citizen of the Republic of the Philippines, it is not only my duty to vote, but to “vote good.” “Vote good” means: vote good people. Do not choose candidates who are corrupt...
When someone compliments you for your good looks, do you say “p’wera buyag” (for Bisayans) or “pwera usog” (for the Tagalogs)? “Why resist a good compliment?” One of the speakers, Sister Selfa Ho asked the participants in the Basic Healing Seminar, sponsored by the Mary’s...
As far as I can remember, I started praying the rosary at an early age, as soon as I started going to school. I must be about four or five years old then. Our house is situated within a compound, where the ancestral house of...
Ang Vaticano II kusganon nga mipatamod pinaagi sa iyang dokumento Lumen Gentium #11 nga ang Yukaristikanhong sakripisyo mao ang tinubdan ug kinauyokan sa Kristohanong kinabuhi. Ang Dabaw adunay 1.4 milyon nga Katoliko sulod sa 37 ka parokya, ug sa kapin 1,700 ka mga Gagmay’ng Kristohanong Katilingban...
[gallery columns="1" size="full" ids="8818,8819,8820,8817"] “Only one thing I thought: jump to death. But before I did that, I prayed, ‘Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory Be,’” Jimmy confided. Prayer before action and indeed prayer saved him. What drove Jimmy to despair? What made him remember the...