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…

Crimson Christmas

Jason A. Baguia 12/23/2016

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…

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,…

Taking time

Sofia Aliño Logarta 12/21/2016

If, as Herod we fill our lives with things, and again with things, if we consider ourselves unimportant that we must fill every moment of our lives with action, when will we have the time to make…

Devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe spans generations

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 12/12/2016

SHE was only five years old when her father first brought her to the Our Lady of Guadalupe parish in Barangay Guadalupe to attend the Mass in celebration of the fiesta of the Virgin Mary under that…

Zumba party for a cause

PR 11/19/2016

THE Our Mother of Perpetual Help devotees, together with the Znergy Dance Company, will hold a two-hour non-stop “Dance for Mary” Zumba party. The dance fitness activity will be held on December 2 at the Redemptorist Church…

Catholics celebrate Mama Mary’s birthday

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 09/08/2016

Catholics all over the world today celebrate the traditional birthday of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In Cebu, thousands of devotees are expected to troop to the Marian shrine in Simala, Sibonga town. At 10 a.m., Cebu Archbishop…

Walk With Mary held in Cebu City

Izobelle T. Pulgo 09/04/2016

THE annual “Walk With Mary” held at dawn Sunday. It started at Fuente Osmena Circle and ended with a Mass. The mass was officiated by Bishop Oscar Jaime Florencio at the Plaza Independencia.…

There’s something about Martha

Simeon Dumdum Jr. 07/16/2016

In 1618, the Spanish artist Diego Velázquez painted “Christ in the House of Martha and Mary.” The work, done in oil on canvas, depicts two women in the kitchen, one young, the other elderly. The young woman,…

Door

Simeon Dumdum Jr. 12/20/2015

A friend invited me to join a project – a book that contained reproductions of her paintings of different doors.  She asked me to write a poem to accompany one of the paintings. The invitation struck a…

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