[caption id="attachment_11549" align="alignright" width="350"] PALAPAK or “patapak” is an old ritual blessing wherein the image of a saint is placed over the heads of the faithful while the priest engages in the blessing. Taken early 1960s in the province of Antique. (Niki Delos Reyes Toress)[/caption] On...
Excerpt: Homily June 13, 2016 DXGN 89.9 Spirit FM relaunching “God writes straight in crooked lines.” Luyo sa pag-angkon ni Yanong Muloy nga sa sugod medyo dili siya komportable sa pag abli usab sa Katolikong radyo, ang nakitang suporta sa mga pari ug layko ang nakapaabli sa iyang...
Dili pa lamang dugay, gipahayag sa mantalaang nasyonal ang mahitungod sa maong Dekreto sa Batikano diin gipahayag nga: Niadto pang Marso 27, 1951 gihukman na, basi sa pagsusi sa mga testimoniya ug ebidensya nga ilang nasusi pag-ayo, nga dili langitnon o supernatural ang mga panghitabo...
All we want is fair play, for the sake of harmony. No one enjoys a game where everybody or many do cheat. The past elections were meant to reflect the people’s will and freedom, to prove that there is still some degree of freedom within the...
“Wuzzup, Harold?” The first year college student was lazily bent, eyes tightly shut and elbows clinging to the table’s edge as he cradled his lead-heavy head between his two hands. “...
"Unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven." (Mt 18,3) "Let the children come to me. Do not prevent them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these." (Mk 10,15) With these words of Christ, it's...
It is said that when people cannot see the whole of reality their eyesight has blinders. So it has happened that a politician promised to kill criminals to protect the people, but at the same time his behavior went against the law of due process and,...
It is often defined that justice is giving what is due to the other; a Christian would add, “With charity.” Charity as everyone knows is very much related to mercy -- it goes beyond justice. As always, God is faithful to His covenant with us....
What is real or perfect justice? I can still recall the answer from the title of the 2007 CBCP planner and Biblical guide that goes: “The Norm of Justice and Right Living is the Word of God.” Hence the truest justice should be in accord with the...
Like St. John the Baptist whose call for repentance as preparation for the coming of the Redeemer was a lonely cry in the desert, the voice of God today as well as that of the Church or of any spiritual and moral Christian teaching is...