This week God proved again that He takes care of me in small and big ways. I am one of the unfortunate Banco Filipino depositors who got caught with our pants down when the bank was suddenly closed almost two months ago. What’s disheartening is that the time deposit accounts of my three children were [...]
Benvolio didn’t know the man’s name, and Benvolio didn’t know why he’s been bound to a wheelchair all these years. What Benvolio did know was that the rotund, fair-skinned gray-haired man in white short-sleeves barong and black slacks who wore a crucifix round his neck went to church to offer Mass with the help of [...]
Not the least among the works of Pieter Bruegel the Elder were his prints. Of these one worthy of mention is “The Parable of the Good Shepherd.” The work shows Christ as the Good Shepherd at the doorway of a sheepfold. On his shoulders he carries an ewe. The other sheep crowd around him. High [...]
“Abby, what color would you like this time?” her mother asked. “Since I gave red roses yesterday, maybe yellow ones would be fine,” Abby replied. “I think yellow is a very nice choice, dear.” Her mother bought the flowers. “I just wished there were more colors to choose from,” the girl exclaimed. “But there are [...]
THE Vatican’s Congregation for the Causes of Saints is now probing if a healing attributed to the intercession of teenage Visayan martyr Pedro Calungsod is “supernatural.” Msgr. Ildebrando Leyson, vice postulator of the cause of Blessed Pedro Calungsod, said the event under study happened last 2003 in a Cebu hospital. A female patient who underwent [...]
The people should follow the example of St. Joseph, the worker, who worked hard and pursued the mission God had given him. Cebu Archbishop Jose Palma reminded the Cebuano flock of the Old Testament, where Joseph the dreamer became the provider for the people. In the New Testament, Palma said that St Joseph is tasked [...]
Kitchen Maid with the Supper at Emmaus,” an early work in oil by the Spanish painter Diego Velasquez, portrays a young black female servant hunched over the basin, jug and pitcher on the kitchen table. She glances sideways, to her right, through a backwall window, to a group of men talking in the background. The [...]
That must be one of the most irritating questions one can ask another on any day of the week. But especially on a lazy Sunday such as this. The Maker’s friends warn him never to ask anyone this question. Leave conversion to the missionaries, they order. And take note, the best of them never appear [...]
