Of roses and thorns

Francis B. Ongkingco 05/10/2014

Butch was heartily enjoying his breakfast on a Monday morning. He couldn’t wait to do many things with his friends during the coming long weekend since Monday next week was declared a holiday. He imagined the many…

“Getting a Cross”

Francis B. Ongkingco 04/05/2014

The season of Lent timely reminds us once again about penance. There echo in our ears and hearts our Lord’s words: “If any one wishes to be my disciple (…) he must take up his cross and…

“Don’t Let It Go!”

Francis B. Ongkingco 03/29/2014

From inside a confessional adjacent to the school’s main auditorium, I audibly heard the students cheering! This was their last student assembly for the school year and after a week or two of grueling exams, school would…

Summer cheats

Francis B. Ongkingco 03/22/2014

With summer only a few weeks around the bend, students are super-restless to get out there and enjoy! After all that work, projects, presentations, [PANT! PANT! PANT!] examinations and competitions, they’re surely entitled to a big long…

Early bird gets the…?

Francis B. Ongkingco 03/15/2014

You would be shocked if instead of WORM the last word would read PORN! But that is just the truth of the matter. Today, children as early as 2nd Grade (and sometimes younger) are easy prey of…

Cross my Heart

Francis B. Ongkingco 03/08/2014

She wasn’t Catholic, but she was very eager to line up with all her classmates during the Ash Wednesday rites in their school chapel. Prior to the ceremony, she gingerly approached the priest and asked, “Father, can…

Waiting for Superman

Francis B. Ongkingco 02/15/2014

It’s a bird… It’s a plane… It’s Hollywood!” With the increasing number of superhero films coming out every year, one is led to think that Hollywood is already running out of creative ideas for their movies. Of…

“IMBA!”

Francis B. Ongkingco 02/08/2014

Father, IMBA!” The student council officer surprisingly exclaimed after I said an extemporaneous prayer to open the sports festival of a school’s maintenance crew. I had no way of clarifying exactly what he meant with ‘imba’ since…

Toothless in heaven

Francis B. Ongkingco 02/01/2014

The priest arranged  envelopes from the children who had written to Jesus in preparation for their first holy communion. It was not easy to stack them since they were  bulky with  little tokens included by the children…

Daddy’s diary

Francis B. Ongkingco 12/28/2013

Vignettes Randy couldn’t believe what he saw. It was like he entered some ‘time tunnel’ into the past! Everything inside the house was exactly as he remembered it some twenty years ago. Time seemed to have forgotten…

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