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One weekend, some of my colleagues at the University of the Philippines Cebu and I watched Martin Scorsese’s “Silence.” The movie, nominated for achievement in cinematography in this year’s Academy Awards, is based on an eponymous novel…
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…
Beauty will save the world!” These words popped out of my head when I read the daily headline announcing another Miss Universe! I pondered what this event and similar ones achieve after proclaiming another winner. Every year,…
MANILA — Devotees of the Black Nazarene flocked to this year’s “Traslacion” with the hope that their devotion to the cross-bearing Christ would not only free their families of diseases but also put an end to the…
Christ’s birthday comes, bloodshed in your houses and streets notwithstanding. Do not be surprised. You saw Catherine Hardwicke’s “The Nativity Story” 10 years ago and found yourself educated by this scene. About three months before her baby…
For some reason, the Renaissance painters, Leonardo da Vinci and Caravaggio, portray John the Baptist as an effeminate character. Leonardo’s version, considered as his last painting, depicts John as an androgynous person, a male Mona Lisa with…
Jubilee Door closed; faithful urged to spread God’s mercy The faithful in Cebu are encouraged to reach out to the people in the periphery of society which included the many prisoners and drug surrenderers, who have not…
(First of two parts) The year was 96 AD. The place: the isle of Patmos in Greece. It was a Sunday. Saint John, traditionally known as the disciple whom Jesus loved, was an old man. In an…
Vignettes In our country that daily suffers the common virus of traffic congestion, it would be impossible to meet someone who has never heard about Waze and its awesome traffic guiding and avoiding features. Although Waze is…
In 1308, the Italian painter Duccio di Buoninsegna put an altarpiece together consisting of several separate paintings for the city of Sienna. Aside from a large front panel depicting the Madonna and Child, the work, known as…
Neither this by Peter Paul Rubens, Nor any of the other paintings, Could ever show the first thing of The Resurrection of the Christ. Nobody saw it happening. The gardener, if there was any, Might have descried…
Vignettes The art of getting lost?” My attention was drawn to the title of one of the BBC feature articles. The writer observed how people today are so dependent on geographical-locating devices while travelling during vacation or…
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