THE THREE-DAY PREPARATION for Pray40Days (tremendous thanks to Ate Myla), delivered what it promised (and what she hinted at). From the overview to the five Ps of prayer (Place, Posture, Pre... Read more

SPEAKING OF HEALING, it is not a source of shame to admit the areas of your life where you walked wounded. There were ample portions of my past that, unable to reconcile with people who pers... Read more

WHO WOULD HAVE thought I could go cold turkey for three months? When, not too long ago, my libation outings were unabated weekly, give or take a sudden, “justified” occasion that... Read more

AS FAR AS crime is concerned, I can never hold a candle to Fr. Donald Calloway’s record. The Episcopalian convert is quite open about his checkered past and the attribute endeared him... Read more

IT WAS MARY who paved the way to my joining the Annunciation Praesidium of the Legion of Mary of the Holy Spirit Parish. This happened in 2009, right after my graduation from PREX 9, where I... Read more

Counting Blessings TWO YEARS AGO, I met an accident I could not recall the circumstances of, my blurred attention being just thankful that, however bruised and bloody my face was, my pinky b... Read more

THE EMPOWERMENT THAT emanated from being Editor-in-Chief of a church newsletter was not so elating as the responsibility of delivering the paper every quarter because it blessed my faith wit... Read more

MARIANN MOORE MADE me believe more in my desire to write when she said, “Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others. I hold her responsible... Read more

IT WASN’T UNTIL page 93 of “For Writers Only,” Chapter “Letting Go,” that Sophy Burnham convinced me. I might muscle something longer than the narratives I post... Read more