It is a given that on this special day, mothers will get a loving note/text/picture, flowers, gift, food treat, or a trip from their children and husbands -- with longer kisses and tighter hugs to boot. These are some practices of giving back to Mama, her...
WE don’t have to die first before we can already have a feel of heaven, if not practically touch it. By doing our ordinary daily work, whether big or small, in public or hidden at home, and doing it with real love for God and...
Mothers are special. It is only fitting that we give importance to them for all the wonderful things they have done for us their children. From our conception, birth and rearing us through infancy until we become adult is not that easy. Mothers love and...
One of our realizations on living in Marawi and in other predominantly Muslim areas in Lanao del Sur was the tendency, or perhaps an ingrained habit of Maranao Muslims, of treating what is cultural as Islamic or Muslim. For instance, the Maranao language and way...
THAT gospel story about Lazarus and the rich man (cfr Lk 16,19-31) reminds us that we have to be careful not to be so swallowed up by worldly and temporal affairs that we forget that our ultimate destination is heaven in eternity. Our worldly and temporal...
WE need to be vigilant always, in good times and in bad times, and most especially in ordinary times which we still would not know whether it is good or bad. We should never let our guard down. This is simply because we have enemies to...
Everyone loves a good surprise! The best and most memorable surprises come from the people we love most. This often happens on special occasions such as birthdays, wedding anniversaries and others drawn from each family’s unique tradition or customs. A surprise can be described as the...
An elegantly dressed man entered the funeral home. The room suddenly became quiet and someone’s whisper could be audibly heard, "This is the favourite son!" I smiled, trying to imagine what the other siblings were known for or called by their relatives and friends. Having familiar...
The other day, I asked Waze to plot out for me directions to an uncharted region of my driving history. It digitally led me to one dead end, through a narrow rough road where u-turning was almost next to impossible, and finally, on my return,...
This is how short it took a Rubik’s Robot to solve the famous puzzle cube invented by the Hungarian sculptor and architecture teacher Ernő Rubik back in the 1980s. This record unseats the previous one of .637 seconds by Albert Beer, a German engineer and...