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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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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 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…
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.…
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,…
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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