[caption id="attachment_7782" align="alignright" width="350"] Photo Courtesy White Canvas FB Page[/caption]ON February 7, 2014, David Sicam, a volunteer of the Dominican Missions perished in a bus accident. The GV Florida bus that they were riding on fell off a ravine in Talubin, Bontoc, Mountain Province. They...
[caption id="attachment_7693" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Photo by Mon Corpuz[/caption] We left Manila at 10:00 p.m. on June 9, 2015 on board Ohayami bus bound for Banaue, Ifugao. Mon Corpuz, founder of Black Pencil Project, organized this “Pencil Trek”. I was with a group of 23 volunteers from...
I have personally experienced this truth that generosity indeed, multiplies blessings. These past weeks the volunteers who joined me last March and May in our Babuyan Islands Mission outreach were featured in a couple of news programs on television. Since it is again the opening...
I first met Dino Dimar when he volunteered to join our Babuyan Islands Mission in the summer of 2011. He was then a graduating student of Fine Arts at the University of Santo Tomas. In February 2014, he was with a group of artists and volunteers...
[caption id="attachment_7214" align="aligncenter" width="704"] Photo credit: Nomad and Happy[/caption] IN my recent visit to the Island of Camiguin Norte, Babuyan Islands, a couple of weeks ago, I asked some volunteers who were with me to help me come up with materials for a scholarship campaign we...
BEFORE the smart phones and digital cameras were introduced in the Philippines, phones and cameras were in analog format then. It means that mobile phones do not have SMS capability or what we commonly call text messaging, and cameras still use film then, instead of...
[caption id="attachment_6868" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Datal Anggas Integrated School (Photo courtesy Claretian Missionaries)[/caption] A couple of weeks ago, I met with Fr. Julius Boado, a Claretian Missionary, at the rectory of San Isidro Labrador Parish Church in Alabel, Sarangani Province. Upon his invitation, I visited their mission...
Read Part 1 [caption id="attachment_6695" align="alignright" width="350"] Books for Babuyan Islands volunteers[/caption]We left Sto. Domingo Church in Quezon City at 6:00 a.m. on March 17, 2015. With a truck and a pick up loaded with school supplies, slippers, raincoats, books and bookshelves, we travelled all the...
[caption id="attachment_6616" align="alignright" width="350"] Black Pencil Project study packs[/caption]Ricky Tugagao was in grade 3 at Cadadalman Elementary School when I finished my term as parish priest of St. Vincent Ferrer Parish in Camiguin Norte, Babuyan Islands three years ago. He was born without a left leg,...
[caption id="attachment_6468" align="alignright" width="218"] Feed the Hungry[/caption]AS FAR as I can remember, from my elementary and high school religion classes, there are seven corporal works of mercy. One unforgettable experience I had in feeding the hungry was when I was still a Philosophy student in the...