The intricacies of translation

Madrileña de la Cerna 05/13/2017

I belong to the generation who had Spanish courses in fourth year high school and in the eight semesters in college. While the intermediate courses were mostly grammar and sentence construction, surprisingly, the higher courses in Spanish…

Mothers’ Love

Sofia Aliño Logarta 05/11/2017

Editor’s note: This column which appeared in yesterday’s issue was inadvertently cut hence we are reprinting it in its entirety. Our Lady of Joy Learning Center had such a beautiful way of celebrating Mothers’ Day. As Mary…

Mothers’ love

Sofia Aliño Logarta 05/10/2017

Our Lady of Joy Learning Center had such a beautiful way of celebrating Mothers’ Day. As Mary Rose Villacastin-Maghuyop and Bobby Bargamento were winding the Theatre Summer Workshop, they chose to have Mothers’ Day celebration as the…

Leading the Way

Sofia Aliño Logarta 05/03/2017

Since we just celebrated the women’s vote we would like to inspire young Cebuanas with the accomplishments of Ines Villa-Gonzalez. She has been described in the Heritage Cards prepared by the Cebu Provincial Women’s Commission and the…

The Feast of the Santo Niño: An Introduction to the History of a Cebuano Devotion

Sofia Aliño Logarta 04/26/2017

Resil B.Mojares in the introduction states, “This book is meant to be a concise, well-researched, and popularly readable account of the history of the Santo Niño devotion in Cebu.” Now that local history is the subject of…

Show mercy on our common home

Madrileña de la Cerna 04/22/2017

Today is the Sunday of the Divine Mercy. and yesterday was International Earth Day. What a coincidence for celebrating what Pope Francis urged in Laudato Si to “show mercy on our common home.” Earth Day started in…

See you more clearly, love you dearly

Sofia Aliño Logarta 04/19/2017

In the Sacred Heart Parish Lenten Recollections, Rev. Fr. Robert Rivera, SJ, wanted to share so much with us. He was eager to let us try some Jesuit processes. He discussed the main themes: mandatum, consumatum, ultimatum,…

Easter and women

Madrileña de la Cerna 04/15/2017

Easter is the time when we commemorate the death of Jesus and celebrate His resurrection. It is also a time when we reflect on what it means to be a Christian. Traditional Easter stories and pageants celebrated…

Rev. Fr. Alfonso Suico on silence and virtue

Sofia Aliño Logarta 04/12/2017

He had chosen to guide us in reflections on silence and virtue. He said Jesus knew how to use silence very effectively as in the case of the woman caught in adultery; he spoke not a word…

A season of book launching

Madrileña de la Cerna 04/08/2017

Book launchings are interesting events and used to be rare. This time of the year, there had been three very interesting book launchings: “Kamingaw: An Impressionist Portrait of the Bisaya Painter Martino A. Abellana” by Raymund L.…

Tres

Madrileña de la Cerna 04/01/2017

April is a very historic month for Cebu and the Cebuanos because three major inspiring events occurred within this month in the history of Cebu and by extension, the Philippines. The Battle of Mactan happened on April…

Women’s Month inspirations

Sofia Aliño Logarta 03/29/2017

Many features of this year’s Women’s Month celebrations will remain in my heart and mind. In the launching program hosted by the Cebu Provincial Women’s Commission, there was the the very inspiring story of Raquel T. Choa.…

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