Sunday is the grand fiesta of Nuestra Señora de Guia, patroness of Ermita, thus commemorating the finding of the image on May 19, 1571, by a Spanish soldier when Adelantado Miguel de Legazpi landed in Manila.
THE PHILIPPINES will present its traditional Philippine-made belen (or crèches in French) in an exhibit at the John Paul II Center fronting the Basilica of Saint Therese in Lisieux from Dec. 7, 2013 to Feb. 1, 2014.
The miraculous image of Sto. Niño de Pandacan (believed to be 400 years old) will be brought to Tacloban, Leyte, by 100 pilgrims, including the Buling Buling dance group.
Continuation of the confessor’s guide questions, which are more porno than the expected replies. Don’t look at me! I didn’t write it. Fray Sebastian de Totanes prepared it and the Franciscans printed the thing.
Amelia “Meng” Canlas, who has produced and directed the popular TV program “Seven Last Words” on Channel 13 for the past 26 years, has married Toronto-based Emmanuel “Noli” Vasquez on April 17 at Our Mount Carmel Parish on Broadway Street in New Manila, Quezon City. No less than Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle performed the beautiful nuptial rites.
The Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration in Baybay, Leyte, have reason to be happy these days. Their founder, Venerable Mother Theresia Bonzel, will be beatified on Nov. 10 in Paderborn, Germany.
For the last 25-plus years that I have been helping couples prepare for their marriage, one of the “tips” I give them is to make memories together as they begin their new life as a couple.
“He is the first non-European in over a thousand years, and the first Jesuit to become pontiff, who preferred to ‘join the boys on the bus,’ even as a special limousine waited for him to ferry them back to the hotel after he was chosen Pope.
A protestant who entered a Catholic church for the first time had the shock of his life when he saw the huge cross with the life-size body of Christ hanging—dead, bloody, hands and feet nailed on the cross.
The euphoria won’t last. Like the adulation of the crowds during the triumphal entry of Jesus Christ into Jerusalem, the euphoria over the election of Pope Francis might not last once he poses the “unsettling questions” raised against the Church on sexual morality and other “difficult” issues confronting modern society, a Church historian said yesterday.
When news of the new Pope broke out in the early morning of Thursday, it was greeted with much joy and hope.
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