TRUE TO HER word, my childhood friend, Del Escudier (she married a Brit, Norman, who is a resident of Australia), flew back in and messengered me last Thursday that they are already in Bacoo... Read more
ATE CAR INTRODUCED her (Purification of Mary) talk with the simultaneous Feasts of the Candles and Presentation of Jesus. She was buoyed up by Sis Ana Marie’s brief on our Lady of Candelaria... Read more
LIKE ME, WHEN I first set foot in Casa Milan’s enormous Shrine of St. Paul, Fr. Jigs Rosalinda (of the Presentation of the Lord Parish) could not contain his awe and said it out loud in than... Read more
HANGGA’T HINDI NATUTUPAD, ang saysay ng mga plano para sa pagbabago ay mananatili lang sa kanilang sustansya, hindi aarangkada patungo sa maganda. Mas maganda pa sana sa mga salitang kung is... Read more
HE COULD NOT have chosen a better sabbatical. Advent being the prelude to Christmas, timing his talk therewith may have saved a lot of soul-searching for the otherwise world-weary mortals wh... Read more
WHILE THE CROWD that attended the recent assembly of PREX fanatics (the die-hard, faithful few; compared to my self-confessed addict) at the Holy Spirit Parish did not exceed expectations, t... Read more
AND THAT NUMBER was still counting at the time this writing began. The number represented the warm bodies that responded to the call of Fr. Jeffrey Habado, Formation Commission (on Family an... Read more
I WOULD NOT have minded standing up through last night’s theatrical presentation of the San Jose ang Tagapagtanggol Parish youth. The play (with a bonus musical) was well worth it. My... Read more
WE WERE LATE last year and held up the three North-bound busloads of pilgrims so I made sure to pray deep (and set my alarm two hours early) that the dud does not repeat. I recently learned... Read more
