Growing up as a child in a Catholic family, I have fond memories of the Lenten Season and Holy Week. Days of fasting and abstinence were strictly observed in our house in Malabon, having a very religious paternal grandmother, whose house was just a few...
Modesty usually conjures an image of how we are dressed and how we carry ourselves in the face of success. From the Latin modestia and first used around 1531, it is defined not only as “propriety and decency in dress, speech and conduct” but also as...
Last week, I shared to you two things: First, reckoning the forty days is not importantly numerically exact. Second, the 40 days of self-examination, fasting and penance is called Lent because that is the Old English word for spring, the season of the year during...
I cannot now remember when I visited Sagada and the Banaue Rice Terraces. It must have been sometime in the late 1990s or in the early years of 2000. As far as I can remember, I was still using a film camera then, and not...
I met Ken (not his real name) about 6 years ago. We were once good friends but have since parted ways. Recently, we caught up on Instagram. He followed me and liked some of my photos. And we began to share stories. Our conversations took...
[caption id="attachment_6089" align="alignright" width="300"] Gitandog ni Fr. Fernando Suarez, ang gibantog nga healing priest sa nasud, ang unom na ka-tuig nga balati-an nga Disc Protrusion kon sakit sa spinal cord ni Bro. Rowel Bron Torrejos.[/caption]Pinaagi sa atong maayo ug dili maayong mga kasinati-an sa atong...
May itinerary. May schedule. May timeline ang pagdating ng Santo Papa. Ganito din kaya tayo kahanda sa 2nd coming ni Lord? [caption id="attachment_6067" align="aligncenter" width="502"] Making 'euphoria to reality' with the help of the local media. Photo taken after the Tacloban trip with Marlon Palma Gil, Fr....
[caption id="attachment_6064" align="alignright" width="300"] Photo Source: Lakbay Baguio[/caption]Calamba, the birthplace of our national hero Dr. Jose Rizal sits at the foot of Mount Makiling in Laguna, the southern Tagalog region of Luzon. It is in this now highly commercialized city that the Dominican Pre-Novitiate, the...
A time comes to everyone when one reflectively asks "is this all there is to life?" Why, despite wealth and fame, one's heart longs for something unexplainable? We look for meaning. Often, we grope for answers. The Catechism of the Catholic Church (p, 13-14) says that...
As we all know in the Catholic Church, the year is divided into liturgical seasons based on significant events in the life and earthly ministry of Jesus Christ as well as the great Mysteries of our Faith. We Catholics, are called to live liturgically by...