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.
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.
IT WAS an early Easter gift being there in the Relic Room of the National Shrine of the Sacred Heart last March 22.
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.
TODAY, Sunday, is also known as “the Sunday of the Five Loaves,” from the traditional Gospel reading for the day. Before the adoption of the modern “common” lectionaries, the Gospel reading for today in the Lutheran, Anglican, Roman Catholic, Western-rite Orthodox and Old Catholic churches is the story of the miracle of the loaves and fishes.
Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle, who’s now in Rome for the conclave to choose a new pope, leads the list of homilists of Make Mine Productions’ television presentation, “The Seven Last Words in the Year of Faith, Year 26,” on March 29, Good Friday, 12 nn to 3 p.m., on IBC Channel 13.
Just like the billions of Catholics around the world, I was stunned when TV news flashed the report that Pope Benedict XVI had decided to “renounce his Petrine ministry” because of failing health.
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