How I almost met the three kings

Simeon Dumdum Jr. 01/07/2017

I take my constitutional on a paved area adjoining our house. I walk back and forth, from the terrace to the gate. When I face the latter, I get a view of the road, the vacant lot…

SINULOG SECURITY

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Inna Mejia 01/03/2017

Police and military personnel are amping up security for Santo Niño devotees and Sinulog revelers to avoid a repeat of a bombing incident which happened in Cebu’s neighboring province of Leyte during a fiesta in Hilongos town.…

Fount of novelty

Jason A. Baguia 12/30/2016

This ship has circled the sun once more. Tomorrow shall be the first of another 365 days. But for today, the last of the year, priests across the globe turn again to the evangelist John, to his…

MAO BA?

Editorial 12/29/2016

ROSARY FOR THE NEW YEAR While most people welcome the New Year with firecrackers and parties, a monsignor has taught his household staff another way of embracing the year. He gathers his priests and staff members and…

A different kind of surrender

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo 12/26/2016

(A four-part series on why there is hope for drug users and pushers) Fe Mantuhac Barino, 59, could not remember a time when her life was not affected by illegal drugs. The chief executive officer of Duros…

Early Christmas gift

Ricky Poca 12/26/2016

Allow me wish you all a Merry Christmas. It is a time to show our appreciation to the kindness of our Savior by loving, adoring, worshiping and thanking him for all the blessings that he showered us…

Untwinkling

Francis B. Ongkingco 12/09/2016

Twinkle, twinkle, little star! How I wonder what you are. Up above the clouds so high. Like a diamond in the sky!” As you read the lines, the song’s creative melody begins playing in your childlike heart.…

Help us, Santa Claus

Jason A. Baguia 12/02/2016

Brimming with joy, the tax man told his guest, the God-man, that he would return to his victims four times the amount he had stolen from them. The visitor then proclaimed that salvation had come to the…

#HushTag

Francis B. Ongkingco 12/02/2016

Enter the hashtag! Nosebleed: “It is a metadata label extensively used by social networks and microblogging services. It helps users to fish concrete topics and trends within the vast oceans of the internet.” Due to its widespread…

‘Advent, eventually…’

Fr. Dondon N. Aquino 11/27/2016

I was actually toying on forging a word-expression while brooding over a nice springboard for this article. That word is “adventually” – an abbreviated, or rather, a coined exclamatory outburst of amazement upon realizing how time flies…

The garden of earthly delights

Simeon Dumdum Jr. 11/19/2016

The Museo del Prado in Madrid houses “The Garden of Earthly Delights,” a triptych done in oil on oak by the 16th century Dutch painter, Hieronymus Bosch. The work has drawn many diverse interpretations, especially the central…

Reach out to people like drug surrenderers

Izobelle T. Pulgo 11/13/2016

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…

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