A PWD athlete and his devotion to St. Joseph

Immae Lachica 05/06/2023

  CEBU CITY, Philippines—A Mandauehanon PWD athlete moves with confidence and grace as a devotee of St. Joseph.  Owen Loceño, 43, a paddler of the Philippines Accessible Disability Services, Inc (PADS), shared with CDN Digital that since…

Higante maker looks forward to the day Sinulog parade will again bring back the fun, the crowd, and the giants

Mary Rose Sagarino 01/17/2021

CEBU, Philippines — The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has changed the way people celebrate occasions and special events such as birthdays, holidays, festivals among others. Following the health protocols and risk against COVID-19, the government has…

Palma to priests: Offer hosts by the hand during communion to fight coronavirus

Futch Anthony Inso 01/29/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Cebu Archbishop Jose Palma is urging priests to offer the communion by the hand instead of putting the host into the mouth of a faithful during masses as a precautionary measure against the…

Continuing the devotion to the Holy Child

Rosalie Abatayo 01/17/2020

MANDAUE CITY, Cebu — Braving the long queue leading to the images of Señor Santo de Cebu and the Our Lady of Guadalupe is part of a sacrifice. This is what Sergia Carmelotes, 71, said as she…

Consolacion vows to return in Sinulog 2021

Rosalie Abatayo 01/14/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — While they missed the chance to defend their title as Sinulog Free Interpretation champion this year, the municipality of Consolacion vows to make their comeback in the Sinulog stage in 2021. Consolacion Mayor…

An elderly woman inspires netizens with her simple act of devotion

Immae Lachica 12/30/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines— In glorifying the Lord there should be no excuses, and that’s exactly what this old lady showed that has touched a netizen’s heart. Lorna Lintu-a, 20, from Malungon, Sarangani Province, shared on her Facebook…

SINGULAR DEVOTION

Ador Vincent Mayol, Nestle L. Semilla 01/20/2018

It was a rainy and humid afternoon but it did not stop the sea of people who joined the four-hour procession along major streets of Cebu City in order to pay homage to the Sto. Niño de…

Warm devotion, wet roads greet Cebu’s sacred images

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 01/19/2018

TRASLACION Despite taking a longer route, the Traslacion motorcade that brought the images of Señor Sto. Niño and Our Lady of Guadalupe to Mandaue City on Friday arrived on time. The sacred icons reached the National Shrine…

Let devotion grow into a sense of mission

Sofia Aliño Logarta 01/17/2018

Orlando P. Carvajal’s column, “Opiate 1” (implies that “Opiate 2” will follow) closes with this scathing declaration: “Thus, it appears to me now as an adult that the teeming masses of poor Filipinos are the descendants of…

Design and devotion

Clint Holton Potestas 01/16/2018

FOR the last seven days, he has not slept for over five hours. With three wedding dresses to accomplish, Izhar Pepito also has to grace the nightly practices of two contingents. One is for Barangay Guadalupe as…

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…

‘Buhing Kalbaryo’ 2017: A test of faith

Nestle L. Semilla 04/12/2017

Ian Fuentes was only 16 years old when he first joined Buhing Kalbaryo, an annual reenactment of the passion and death of Jesus Christ. He first played the role of a Roman soldier who tormented Jesus. Eventually,…

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