The panther

Simeon Dumdum Jr. 05/14/2016

When I retired from the judiciary, I decided to turn away from anything connected with the law and devote my time to writing, an “amusement” that had preoccupied me when I went to law school, and which…

Round as tomatoes

Simeon Dumdum Jr. 05/07/2016

I am tempted to require the front office, if someone wants to see me, to ask the visitor, “Are you still alive?” Am I serious? Yes — more or less. I had a visitor a few days…

Susmariosep!

Gerard Pareja 04/25/2016

Salins Hulbot Dili panag-iya sa magbabalak ang balak. Gigamit kini sa tanan ug gigamit kini sa inadlaw-adlaw nga kinabuhi. Samtang gasakay akog pedicab (usa ka misnomer kay motorcycle man kini nga dunay side car ug dili na…

Eucharistic ABC’s

Francis B. Ongkingco 03/18/2016

Vignettes The woman in the second floor was dying of cancer,” my priest friend narrated how the sick call went. “Eight children, she had, you say?” “Yes,” he sighed deeply and lowered his head in deep thought.…

A sure-fire way of making a tree bear fruit

Simeon Dumdum Jr. 02/27/2016

I don’t have a green thumb. But I have a green heart. I mean I love to grow things, which, however, do not always thrive. No seed lying about will escape my hand, especially that of a…

What it takes to believe

Simeon Dumdum Jr. 01/24/2016

At one time I took a taxicab to go to my workplace. When we passed by a great number of houses in tight clusters, I told the driver that, for years, an extensive cornfield had thrived on…

Leonardo’s Angel

Simeon Dumdum Jr. 01/10/2016

The name Andrea del Verrocchio largely comes to us via a fifteenth-century painting, “The Baptism of Christ.” As its title indicates, the work relates to an incident by the Jordan river when John baptized Jesus, which marked…

Thousands attend Mass for feast of Virgin of Guadalupe

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Nestle L. Semilla 12/13/2015

Thousands of people trooped to barangay Guadalupe in Cebu City yesterday to celebrate the feast of Cebu’s patroness. In a Mass he presided, Cebu Archbishop Jose Palma urged the faithful to turn to Mary and to never…

Jesus is born into a Manobo tribe

01/05/2015

by Fr. Emy Maningo Redemptorist Missionary   In last year’s Misa de Gallo, I was assigned by the Redemptorist Missions to a Manobo tribe in barangay Nuing, Sarangani Province, South Cotabato. I visited two chapels way up…

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