Sto. Niño church in Talisay starts fiesta activities

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 02/07/2017

ALTHOUGH January is over, the events in honor of the Sto. Niño persist. In Talisay City, the Sto. Niño de Cebu Parish in Lower Mohon has started its series of activities leading to the feast of its…

Beauty and the blessed

Francis B. Ongkingco 02/03/2017

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,…

Childhood, candles and birds

Jason A. Baguia 02/03/2017

The blacktop glistened with moisture from a brief spell of rain. The air was chilly. It was Candlemas, the second day of February, the fortieth after Christmas eve. Was it time to speak of childhood again? In…

The colors of the mind

Simeon Dumdum Jr. 01/21/2017

Ever since I saw a mosaic of the icon of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in a seminary garden, I have always had the desire to make something similar in my home. I told the wife about…

The sleeping Sto. Niño

Simeon Dumdum Jr. 01/14/2017

On the sixth day, the wife and I finally made it. Earlier concerns about our not getting parking space and lacking the stamina to keep standing throughout the Holy Mass at the jam-packed Pilgrim Center made us…

The Santo Niño is alive

Ryan Macasero 01/14/2017

An old woman stands on the side of the road on M.J. Cuenco Avenue in Cebu City. Her eyes closed, she holds the Santo Niño over her head and waves it back and forth in a slow…

Troubled children pray, seek Sto. Niño’s help

Nestle L. Semilla 01/09/2017

Hoping to be given a second chance at a better life, most of the children in conflict with the law, who are detained at the Cebu City Operation Second Chance in Barangay Kalunasan prayed to Sto. Niño…

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…

Holy innocents

Jason A. Baguia 01/06/2017

Alady had tucked two images of the Holy Child Jesus as king into a stroller. That was not what first captured my attention under one of the bleachers in the churchyard. Rather, I was drawn to the…

ABIDING FAITH

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 01/05/2017

For 14 years, Charlito Nibrel was hooked on illegal drugs and gambling. “Nadala ko sa barkada (I was swayed by friends),” he said. At first, the native of the southern Cebu town of Minglanilla was having fun,…

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.…

The First Christmas Tree

Francis B. Ongkingco 12/23/2016

Where will we get firewood, daddy?” Young Amos asked. “There, the dead tree,” he pointed at a leafless tree. Amos ran to the tree snapped off the smaller twigs. But as he tried breaking the bigger branches,…

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