I just got the sad news that one of the members of our Widows’ Support Group at San Roque Cathedral, Marivic Damaso, from Catmon, Malabon city, is critical in the hospital. Marivic was widowed when her own husband was killed two years ago by unidentified assailants. Two of her five orphaned children are currently our […]
KAPAG TUMIBOK ANG PUSO Homiliya sa Pista ng Sagradong Puso Sacred Heart Mission Station Bishop Ambo David Sabi ng kanta ni Donna Cruz: “Kapag tumibok ang puso wala ka nang magagawa kundi sundin ito.” Ibig niyang sabihin, kapag tinamaan ng pagibig ang tao, magiging parang sunud-sunuran siya nito. Di ba sinabi ito ng makatang si […]
Our Mission Stations are not only about feeding programs and medical missions. They are not only about basic ecclesial community-building and education in human rights and dignity. They are also about bringing music into the lives of the poor. Thanks so much dear Jesuit fathers and brothers for your ingenious ways of enriching the lives […]
The marker on his grave identifies him as Joaquín María Herrer: “pintor y professor de la Escuela de Bellas Artes de Manila” (painter and professor at the Bellas Artes school of Manila), born in Madrid in 1838 and died in Manila in 1917. Herrer “was recognized in his homeland as a master and an award-winning […]
Today’s feast is not just about Jesus; it is about us too! Because he embraced our humanity in utter kenosis and united it with divinity in himself, his ascension becomes our ascension too. He lifts up our wretched humanity into what God had originally intended it to be: image and likeness of divinity. The humanity […]
I used to think that language had to do only with what people say and how they say it. Until I started noticing a curious difference in what people hear and how they think they hear it. For example: how does the rooster crow? How do people verbalize the sound that they hear the rooster […]
I understand now why the porter at the hotel lobby reacted vehemently to my question over the phone when I called from my room: “Bonjour, Monsieur. Est-ce que l’eau ici est potable?” (Good morning sir, is the water here in the hotel potable?) He said, “Mais, bien sûr, Monsieur!” (But of course, Sir!) Later I […]
I wanted to take one pot home with me to see if I could propagate it on Philippine soil. Alas, I was dissuaded from doing so by the Swiss lady at a garden shop in the medieval town of Yvoire. So I just held one pot and hummed the tune as I marveled at the […]
I was sipping my espresso while praying lauds on my iBreviary when I looked around the special room reserved by the Collegio Filippino for the bishops, for a crucifix or an icon that could help me get focused. There on the window sill my attention was caught by a beautiful marble sculpture of the head […]
He was in Rome in autumn of 1909 for the same purpose as us, the bishops of Luzon, in Spring of 2019. He was with the bishops of the rest of the Philippine dioceses for their Ad Limina Apostolic Visit to the Pope. The only difference was the fact that he was the first and […]
