The poor and suffering

Raymund Fernandez 01/31/2016

This writer, the writer of kinutil, grew up in childhood as a close neighbor to poverty. He grew up, first, in Dumanjug where they were landowners with tenants who depended on them and to whom they were…

The body of Christ

Raymund Fernandez 01/27/2016

When was the last time he thought of the body of Christ? What did the body of Christ mean to him then? Has the meaning changed for him now? The writer of kinutil is thinking this. He…

The Eucharist

Raymund Fernandez 01/24/2016

First Communion for Catholics is when a child receives Christ physically for the first time. The host is not symbolic. Catholics have faith it is the true physical presence of Jesus Christ. Every mass is a miracle.…

Post-Sinulog blues

Raymund Fernandez 01/19/2016

The Feast of the Sto. Niño and the Sinulog hold us together into a diverse amalgam with a single name. This name being Cebu. It is our fiesta. And since its simple celebration decades ago, it has…

The name of the place

Raymund Fernandez 01/12/2016

The other night he had a dream somewhere between a dream and a nightmare. He knew this dream must have some universal lesson of a sort, must have some message to tell him. If only he knew…

Alex

Raymund Fernandez 01/10/2016

The Turtles bar and book cafe is in a perennial half dark. Let us, for now, remember ourselves here. And him with us, bottles of beer on the table. The table normally sits four but we see…

Violence so sad

Raymund Fernandez 01/06/2016

Watching the news these days, we cannot help but observe how the world seems to be turning more violent. Top of these is the recent increase of tension in the Middle East after Iranians ransacked the Saudi…

So now, 2016!

Raymund Fernandez 01/03/2016

Early morning, before 9 a.m., 2016, the alarm wakes him up. It is 5:30. He has set, for today, a deadline earlier than the usual 12:00 noon. Today, he is traveling. This must be e-mailed before he…

And so, 2015

Raymund Fernandez 12/30/2015

It could be said: This was the happiest year ever, if only it wasn’t also the saddest. 2015 came and went in exclamation points! Followed by the longest and most profound pauses. What can one do? To…

His tree

Raymund Fernandez 12/26/2015

Kinutil As fate and the stars would have it, friend, he finds himself here. Here, is a perfect morning in Baclayon, Bohol, where trees, many of them, grow perfectly, as by nature’s design. In the big city,…

The thought of believing

Raymund Fernandez 12/22/2015

The thought of believing that life goes on till forever is a nice thought. Unless one went by the Buddha that life is essentially suffering. The final spiritual goal is really to disappear into the cosmos, to…

Abducted by aliens

Raymund Fernandez 12/20/2015

She’ll be okay as long the she doesn’t get abducted by aliens,” Papa goes. His family is talking over breakfast when the conversation goes into the subject of what futures the kids have. “Oh, Papa, what makes…

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