Changing moments

Madrileña de la Cerna 03/11/2017

With “Women Make Change” as the running theme of this year’s Women’s Month, the sharing of five women from their respective fields during its kick-off on March 1 made me reflect on my journey as an educator,…

Making change work for women

Madrileña de la Cerna, Solita Collas-Monsod 03/04/2017

March as the National Women’s Month opened with a double treat at the Capitol Social Hall with the 17th Cebu Provincial Women’s Congress spearheaded by the Provincial Women’s Commission and the “We Make Change: Women Inspiring Women…

Onward with the mission

Madrileña de la Cerna 02/25/2017

The Visayas Our Mother of Perpetual Help has concluded but the mandate to “Make Her Known Throughout the World” continues hopefully on a wider, deeper, and more intense scale. Bishop Oscar Florencio threw the challenge at the…

Heroic

Madrileña de la Cerna 02/18/2017

The two-day Visayas Congress of Our Mother of Perpetual Help opened on February 17, 2017 at the Redemptorist Church, Cebu City with 582 delegates from Cebu, Borongan, Catarman, Tacloban, Bacolod, Dumaguete, Iloilo and a few guests from…

Prelude to the visayas omph congress

Madrileña de la Cerna 02/11/2017

As a prelude to the Visayas Congress of Our Mother of Perpetual Help on February 16-18, three film entries to the Short Film Festival of the 150th Jubilee of the Icon of Our Mother of Perpetual Help…

Bending tradition

Madrileña de la Cerna 02/04/2017

Sacred Heart School-Hijas de Jesus Foundation, with the collaboration of its alumni and parents’ associations, brought to the Cebuano audience at the opening of February Disney’s “Mulan” to celebrate its 60th year of existence of educating young…

A reunion of cultural workers

Madrileña de la Cerna 01/28/2017

Cultural Workers from the 1980s and years after that held a reunion yesterday at the Handuraw Gorordo Branch: the Banaag Network, Dungog Network, PETA-CITASA in the Visayas, Bitaw, USC-TG, Prayer, STC Bantawan, DKR (Dulaang Katilingban sa Redemptorist),…

The real kabiloso

Madrileña de la Cerna 01/21/2017

The launching of Raymund Fernandez’s book “Kamingaw: An Impressionist Portrait of the Bisaya Painter Martino A. Abellana” last January 10, 2017 brought back memories of my interactions with Noy Tinong as we fondly called him from childhood…

From Kaplag to Tago

Madrileña de la Cerna 01/14/2017

In May 2016, while helping the Redemptorists prepare for their first-time participation in the Gabii sa Kabilin, which was held on the last Friday of May, I had the chance to finally see and touch the steel…

A hymn of love

Madrileña de la Cerna 01/07/2017

The mood for the coming feast of Santo Niño is set by the song “Bato-Balani sa Gugma” (Magnet of Love) aired over the radio and television, and sung in all the eleven masses at the Basilica del…

Backward glance, forward look

Madrileña de la Cerna 12/31/2016

The year 2016 started with the 51st International Eucharistic Congress in January in Cebu City with the theme “Christ in us, Our Hope of Glory” that sent a strong message of hope for the faithful. The proclamation…

Keeping Christmas

Madrileña de la Cerna 12/17/2016

There is a better thing than the observance of Christmas day, and that is keeping Christmas, according to Henry Van Dyke. In his short essay of the same title, he gives sets of questions for us to…

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