Salt and light

Fr. Jerry M. Orbos SVD - @inquirerdotnet 02/05/2023

There are two kinds of chicharon (pork rind): may laman, i.e., with meat, or walang laman, i.e., just skin, no meat. * * * In today’s Gospel (Matthew 5: 13-16), Jesus tells us to be “salt of…

Salt industry revival plan to start with ‘profiling’ – DA

Jordeene B. Lagare - @inquirerdotnet 09/16/2022

MANILA, Philippines — After many years of neglect, the country’s salt industry is finally getting much-needed attention through a P100-million revitalization program to be implemented by the Department of Agriculture (DA). The DA issued on Wednesday the…

Salt in our tears and other thoughts

Ma. Ceres P. Doyo - @inquirerdotnet 09/02/2022

Pan de sal, the Filipino breakfast and merienda staple—with palaman or without—was the first to pop up in my mind. (Sal is Spanish for salt.) Next was the biblical saying on becoming “the salt of the earth”…

Causes of major illnesses

Dr. Philip S. Chua 10/23/2017

EXCEPT for infectious, congenital diseases, and rarer maladies, the most common major illnesses today are caused by four main risk factors, for which I have coined the acronym: TABA, the Filipino word for fat, for easy remembrance.…

Salt and light

Simeon Dumdum Jr. 02/04/2017

Our hands, as well as eyes, Meet when you pass the salt. Indeed, life is encounter (Buber has it down pat). I could have asked you for Your name, but you’re my wife, My cure-all, like salt-water,…

Calcium, D3, salt, and MV-M

Philip S. Chua 12/04/2016

THERE have been controversies about the safe dose for our intake of calcium, Vitamin D, and sodium (salt). Obviously, the amount we take of any substance or medications, either too high or too low, is important, when…

Salt of the earth and light of the world

Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles Jr. 02/09/2014

1st Reading: Isaiah 58:7-10 2nd Reading: 1 Corinthians 2:1-5 Gospel: Matthew 5:13-16 Jesus said to his disciples, “You are the salt of the earth. But if salt has lost its strength, how can it be made salty…

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