The first parish of our Archdiocese is San Pedro Parish. Its fiesta used to be the biggest social and religious event of the city. The Hijos de Davao, the oldest and most prominent social club composed of all the old Dabawenyo families hold their biggest...
EUROPE “TIRED” ---I read a few days ago Pope Francis describing Europe as “tired” and needs renewal. He noted that the young there are timid and not so “gung ho” for work while their old folks are left to fend for themselves in their old...
As the schools nationwide, public and private, begin to open this month of June 2014, millions of our children troop to their favored learning institutions in their locality, province, or Metro Manila areas. In places devastated by killer typhoons and earthquakes, very few of these...
THAT’S “persons with disability” or “people with disabilities.” We have to distinguish their many kinds if only to better know how to care for them. This is part of the new sensitivity we should develop as the world becomes more complex each day. Remember that St....
You look at the title’s concept, it actually refers to that famous phrase “a government of the people, for the people and by the people.” You don’t have to complicate it. It just simply presupposes listening to and consulting the people that a government is...
In the Gospel according to St. John, Jesus was abandoned by many of His followers when His discourse about the bread of life was very difficult to accept (Jn 6). Jesus is the bread of life. He is truly present in the species of bread...
I couldn’t resist writing about another current ‘mode’ in people when someone said, “Father, I just removed the zombie you put in my cell phone!” His companion could not contain his curiosity, “What do mean ‘Father putting a zombie’ in your cell phone? Is that a...
PADERS’ DAY --- Today, we should take special efforts to honor, not only our biological fathers but most importantly our priests, our “pader” in our parishes and churches. We are their veritable children. Come to think of it, every day of our lives we do...
TO be sure, Pentecost which celebrates the coming of the Holy Spirit is not an event in the past that at best is merely to be remembered if we care. It continues to take place up to now. In the first place, every liturgical celebration is...
Mortal men that we are, we know that we have only a limited time on this earth, a span of life that God has allotted to each of us. For that we have only to be grateful to God, for all the kind and beautiful...
