“Now, place the baby sheep beside the shepherd, Charlotte.” Charlotte carefully puts the figure beside the shepherd. “Is this okay, daddy?” she asked. “You’re a natural artist, honey. You must have gotten it from your mother,” her father kissed her on the forehead. “Can I throw this old...
We ( and that includes “ME” ) applaud and feel good hearing that a drug pusher or a robber or a trouble-maker gets killed or gunned down. “Good for him, he deserves it”, expressed in ways like “karma, “dapat lang”, tama gyud”, “maayo ra...
Aside from the always-ready International Red Cross, many governments and institutions, associations, groups of all kinds around the world have sent different forms of help to the suffering victims of the killer typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) in the Visayan Islands. Their quick response, generosity, creativity, self-sacrifice...
I CONSIDER it a great blessing that in our country we still enjoy a tremendous amount of popular piety. This January, for example, we have the celebration in many places of the feast of the Sto. Nino that draws a lot of crowd in a...
Every Christmas a special feeling comes to the depths of our hearts, not just a random feeling but one that is deep and penetrating. It’s because the Christmas celebration is linked to the birth of the universal Savior, Jesus Christ, reminding us that this...
Christ did have to be baptized because he is god the son and was born without original sin. Yet he went to the Jordan River and asked his cousin St. John to baptized him. St. John rightly answered who am I to baptized the Messiah,...
Because we are living in time, our thoughts, words, and actions are time-bound. It’s difficult to think, speculate, talk, behave and relate to timelessness or eternity. Part of the reasons is our innate tendency towards things material which is attributed to a wrong understanding of modernity...
Samantha was cuddling the doll of the baby Jesus and gently rocking it to sleep in her arms. “Sleep little Jesus, sleep…,” she whispered a childish lullaby. “Sam,” I interrupted her. “You’re going to make me sleep with that sweet dreamy song.” “I’m singing it for...
I read somewhere what our new “Santo Papa” said when asked about his views on the controversial issues on gay marriage and homosexuality. He simply shot back and said: “Who I am to judge?” This was a refreshing surprise to...
A STORY is said about Alexander the Great who astounded a beggar who only asked for some alms but instead was given the government of five cities. When the beggar expressed his consternation, Alexander just said: “You asked like the man you are. I give...
