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We are familiar with the story based on Aesop’s fable about a goose that lays golden eggs. Once a farmer and his wife had a goose that laid a golden egg every day. They were convinced that…
A homeless garbage collector was reportedly rescued in Talisay City last week after attempting to swim the distance from Cebu City to Bohol. This man from Carmen, Bohol was found floating hanging on to a piece of…
Six years ago today, Pedro Calungsod was declared as one of seven new saints by then Pope Benedict XVI in St. Peter’s Square. This Visayan teenager sprang steadily from obscurity to universal acclaim to become the second…
Weekly, I organize a visit to one of our forty-eight chapels in Lourdes Parish. Along with the members of the Parish Pastoral Council and other Ministries, we strive to get to know the chapel leaders, the families…
I attended the recently concluded “Panagtigom,” a four-day retreat for clergy. On the occasion of the Year of the Clergy and Consecrated Persons, it gathered priests from the dioceses of Cebu, Dumaguete, Maasin, Talibon and Tagbilaran.…
A mother of three approached me late afternoon, in confidence, to ask for bread. She wanted to buy few pieces of pan de sal for her kids the next morning because that is their favorite breakfast meal…
Each time I end my Sunday mass in my parish, children ran and flock around me to make ‘mano.’ They take turns to put my hands on their foreheads praying to be blessed. In turn, I pray…
Just after midnight, a group of confused youngsters knocked on our parish rectory bringing a young woman to be prayed-over. They claimed she was possessed. She was shouting, asking them to let her go when they arrived.…
Blue and red shirts greeted my early morning mass in the parish. It was the signal that the campaign period has come. Prayers of different aspirants for barangay offices went up to heaven. I joined my heart’s…
The Archdiocesan Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in Punta Princesa re-staged the Musical: Song of Bernadette last February 16-19 in celebration of the 160th anniversary of the apparitions and the closing of the Year of…
One of the wonderful things that happened during the Holy Week was the presence of so many people desiring to come for confessions. In the Archdiocesan Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes, the long queuing began since…
Alfonso and Helen come to Mass every morning. Rain or shine, they are present. At times, I see Helen alone because her husband has errands to do. She attends church to pray. It is her way of…
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