In an unprecedented move, Pope Francis washed the feet of 12 youths, including a Muslim girl, during the Last Supper Mass on Thursday in a correctional for minors in Rome. He was reenacting Jesus Christ’s washing of the feet of his all-male 12 apostles, including Saint Peter, the first Pope.
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.
The liturgy the past week in between the Feast of the Epiphany and the Feast of the Lord’s Baptism today gives us what we might call a “pabaon” (a parting gift) as we enter ordinary time this coming week.
The latest incident in this strange drama happened in Sr. Gloria’s healing center in Novaliches (border of Caloocan) in October 2011, only two months after the Pampanga incident.
About a week after that incident, I went back to the place of Apo Ina, with actor and UFO investigator Roy Alvarez, who was interested in paranormal phenomena. As soon as we entered Apo Ina’s apartment, I avoided staying in front of the altar because I didn’t want to go into trance again. I hurriedly walked past the altar, to the dining room located further inside the apartment area away from the altar.
The mystery of the birth of Christ is relived through the Belen (Nativity Scene) exhibition at the Miguel de Benavides Library inside the University of Santo Tomas campus.
About a year ago, I received a text message from Merly Tabujara, a schoolteacher and a highly developed natural psychic and visionary from Silay City, Negros Occidental, who has been a longtime reader of my columns and books, but whom I met personally only once in Manila.
“Are you losing faith in Christ—or are you losing faith in your images of Christ?” This is a question often posed to people in search of God in their life.
It’s been dubbed the “world’s worst restoration”, but a 102-year-old church painting of Christ that now resembles a pale monkey is drawing visitors by the hundreds to a sleepy Spanish town.
An elderly woman’s catastrophic attempt to “restore” a century-old oil painting of Christ in a Spanish church has provoked popular uproar, and amusement.
For five Sundays, starting the last Sunday of July, we are taking the Gospel reading from John 6. We opened with the multiplication of the loaves and fish, and for the rest of the four Sundays we will hear the discourse on the bread of life. John 6 is a defining moment in the ministry and mission of Christ.
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