Executives of City of Dreams Manila (COD) were understandably mum and cryptic when journalists pressed for info on whether Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio will grace the grand opening of the casino resort complex on Feb. 2.
Most of the concerts held in the country that feature major international artists don’t really make money for the producers—especially if the artists’ talent fees are exorbitant.
There is no romance involved in this story. Only about a special friendship between a man and a woman gone awry—over absolutely nothing. An oversight and a miscommunication that should not have happened, had one of them put the brakes on an overwrought imagination and put more trust in a well-intentioned friend.
Know that there is so much you can do in the universe. You contain the All; thus, you have unlimited choices.
I must have always believed in magic. When I was 10 or so years old, I liked to imitate the Flores de Mayo that I saw during our summer vacations in Pagsanjan. Daily, children offered fresh flowers, usually bunched together calachuchi, adelfa, bachelor’s buttons, even cadena de amor, on the altar. That was church-conducted Flores.
February is all about family, food and festivities. Our big family, spanning several generations, had an extra load of all that fun when the entire Teresa de la Paz y de los Santos clan celebrated our seventh grand reunion at Colegio San Agustin.
Seventy-three years ago I was a bewildered nine-year-old, out of school because of the war, anxious to get back to what I remembered was my normal life.
The American missionary who founded Boystown and Girlstown in the Philippines has moved one step closer to sainthood after earning the title of “venerable,” which is bestowed by the Pope on those who have lived a life of heroic virtue.
Ignatius of Loyola often advised the Jesuits who were doing spiritual ministry that if they want to influence another person, they must enter the door of the other and guide that person out the door. I wish to propose this as the framework for our reflection this Sunday.
We’re not really sentimental folks, my husband and I—anyway, not in the sense of memento collector or souvenir keeper. We travel sans camera and keep no albums for pictures we don’t take.
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