October is month of the Holy Rosary. This is a beautiful prayer we Filipino Catholics love to pray for 31 days. And it is done often in early dawn in our parishes. Even if there are only very few people the custom continues relentlessly. In most...
This is the message of the concerned mother of Jesus, Mary our mother too, when she confidently tells the servants at the wedding in Cana to follow whatever Jesus tells them to do. Mary acts with full hope in her Son and indicates her rule of...
Nagsaulog sa Santos nga Misa sa Sr. San Miguel Parish si Yanong Muloy niadtong Domingo, Setyembre 18 sa Sr. San Miguel Parish, Marahan. Iyang gihatagan ug gibug-aton ang Ebanghelyo gikan sa Lk 16:1-3, “gipadayag nga gasa sa pagtuo.” Iya kining gipasabot pinaagi sa mga musunod nga...
It's a question whose answer I really do not know. I guess one has to plumb deep into the hearts of the people concerned to get a glimpse of the reason. I'm referring to why, in spite of all the explanations on the subject given by...
The man was simultaneously entranced and bewildered at what his eyes caught at the other side of the street. As a foreigner, he was prepared to witness stranger things and practices in a tropical setting unlike his own. What he saw, however, wasn’t something out of...
The Duterte government's war against the violence of drug addiction and drug production is carried out also in a violent way. This violent way is being questioned and debated. And this questioning and debates are somehow tainted with violence. So we are now being confronted...
Seafarers encounter a lot of dangers and discomforts travelling on the great, wide, and endless seas. Some of them died while on duty. As we celebrate National Seafarers’ Day, let us remember the hardships our seafarers encounter daily over the ocean like being deprived of the...
Then it happened. I went to the emergency room which is a small room. My husband was on a bed. I went to him immediately. I held him and told him I have already arrived. When he heard my voice, he opened his eyes. That gave me...
Surely no one can deny, as has happened in the early Church, there is some division in our Church now. As Jesus would say it, “An evil hand has done this” (Mt. 13:28). The main cause, of course is the spread of wrong ideas. That is...
There are a lot of commonalities that we can see in saints. But for these five saints whose feasts are celebrated closely everyday these coming days, we can mention at least two commonalities. First, they are called to suffer. Though only San Lorenzo Ruiz is a...