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Love, commitment. The self, comfort, material possessions. Family. Occasionally, these are put to the test. Which will endure? At what...
Food and drink figure heavily in many Biblical passages. Bread and wine, the wheat in the fields, grapes on the vine, figs on the tree, oils and spices, loaves and fishes for the hungry multitude. The Last Supper became the cosmic, universal sacrament of faith for Christian believers.
Helen Quach, the Australian Symphony Orchestra conductor who had graced the Philippine stage and performed with Philippine orchestras, passed away on July 31 in her home country. She was 73.
At three o’clock in the morning, while the world sleeps, troubled souls rouse this priest to relay important messages or...
“Why is Facebook so big today? “Because deep in our hearts, our most basic need, found in our DNA, written in our genetic code, is the need to belong to a community, a friendship, a network, a club, a family.
“A ROOM of her own” is what it used to be. But why stop there? Why indeed, when she could...
There is definitely more to Santa Rosa, Laguna than just being the much touted gateway to Calabarzon, that burgeoning industrial zone and magnet for investors that straddles the provinces of Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal and Quezon. Younger folk too can find much more to this town than just the giant ferris wheel of the Enchanted Kingdom.
Drawing from her personal battle with major depressive disorder, Cenacle Sr. Maria Cecilia “Cecille” Tuble now advocates for greater mental...
The happy shrieks of children blend with the sonorous mooing of the cows. The striking green of the fields compete with the blueness of the sky. The patter of little feet, the chorus of voices in the classrooms, the rising of the nuns’ chanted prayers at eventide...
I dig my files and clippings and I realize that this assignment is somewhat discomfiting. A flood of memories surges, tsunami-like. I feel the warmth of triumph and of freedom long-won, but also feel sadness over the loss of those I had met and known and written about.
