A Journey of Faith Inside Out

As the tiny white butterfly is nourished from the nectar of the sunflower sustained in sunlight, so do we draw sustenance from God, the sovereign source of all light, life, and energy.

ROAD TO EMMAUS

We are an Easter people. There is a reminder of this at a certain church where the huge Cross hanging over the altar shows the Crucufied Christ on one side and the Risen Christ on the other.

The Crucifix is the symbol of Christian faith, focused on Jesus our Redeemer. We are part of his dying, but so are we part of his rising. Yet in times of anxiety or disappointment, we may wonder where God has gone, much like the disciples walking to Emmaus, disheartened and confused over Christ's disappearance, even as He walked right next to them.

We pray for hearts constantly attuned to Him, so we may feel "hearts burning" in His constant presence. Our road to Emmaus , though not always easy, leads to Him. So He makes sure He accompanies us, because we are His.

Because we are an Easter people.

View Posts
Continue to the category

A Free Gospel and Free People

FR. RICHARD ROHR* Week One:  Being Salt And Light Richard Rohr expresses the liberation the gospel offers when freed from our cultural and religious expectations:  Without God’s...
Read more

A RELEVANT CHURCH

We are an Easter people. There is a reminder of this at a certain church where the huge Cross hanging over the altar shows the Crucufied Christ on one side and the Risen Christ on the other.

The Crucifix is the symbol of Christian faith, focused on Jesus our Redeemer. We are part of his dying, but so are we part of his rising. Yet in times of anxiety or disappointment, we may wonder where God has gone, much like the disciples walking to Emmaus, disheartened and confused over Christ's disappearance, even as He walked right next to them.

We pray for hearts constantly attuned to Him, so we may feel "hearts burning" in His constant presence. Our road to Emmaus , though not always easy, leads to Him. So He makes sure He accompanies us, because we are His.

Because we are an Easter people.

View Posts
Continue to the category

Bejeweled Rock of Prayer: The Oratory of St Francis Xavier in Nuvali

JOHNNY C. GO SJ When it was first inaugurated on 9 March 2013, I spoke of the Oratory of St. Francis Xavier during my homily...
Read more

JANUARY'S PICKS

In White Butterfly’s  Discover, author Ernie Maipid, Jr. with his 9 year old granddaughter, Aria Soleil's article, 'CARE TALKS'.  Ernie relates his 'Papu' efforts at sharing the legacy of Blessed Mother’s rosary with the next generation. This touches Aria, who picks up the caring witness of her mom, an Early Child educator, and writes about her own 'caring and loving' faith journey.

Gifts & Graces features Rose Isada Cabrera's article, 'ISADA FAMILY: LIFE LESSONS FROM A CHOCOLATE BAR AND A MANGO PIT'. Here, Rose recounts the living witness of Christian family values through generations of the Isadas, palpably alive in their young today.

The Bejeweled Rock of Prayer: The Oratory of St. Francis Xavier In Nuvali, is Pananagutan’s entry by Fr Johnny C. Go SJ.  His article invites the reader to be enthralled by  the magnificent stained glass windows of the chapel glowing like multicolored gems, depicting the life of Jesus Christ as lived through the charism and mission of the Jesuits in the world and as the mainstay of Ignatian education. Artist of the stained glass windows and Xavier School alumnus Carlos de Santos Tanseco and Xavier School Founder and President  ( 2001-13) Fr. Johnny C. Go SJ, have together created a veritable treasure and legacy of LOVE  and FAITH.

DECEMBER'S PICKS

For DISCOVER, In "Where To From Here”, the first chapter of a book being written by Aurelio O. Angeles, he reveals how the word "static" was a stranger to his life history - the challenging journey from his itinerant childhood to the present, replete with difficult crossroads leading to the critical one towards entrepreneurship. Continuous hardships paved the way accompanied by anxiety, matched by dogged determination to reach the next stage, always with a search for meaning and purpose and a constant call to the Holy Spirit for guidance, depending on God for courage, virtue and wisdom to keep moving forward with unfailing faith in Him, no matter that the future remains unseen.

For GIFTS & GRACES, Jonathan Crisol in his article, 'Remembering Bobby Crisol, My Father of Love and Presence Unsurpassed' recalls that at 11 years, he needed to don, on emergency, his Dad's sneakers to play ball in school. This, he vividly remembers, was met without any hesitation by his Dad, who was to family, the rock on whom all leaned.

Now a father himself and his Dad just gone, Jonathan writes about 'his filling in the shoes' of his Dad who left a life filled with values to emulate.

In the PANANAGUTAN entry, Dong Magsajo in 'Dear Basti', pens a letter to his 13 year old son who is battling grief, unable to give away his happy memories of the family's staunch rock, 'Lolo (grandfather)', whom God has called to himself.

Dong writes of the need for Basti to 'release' Lolo for God's full loving.

White Butterfly

"When God's power is manifested in the world, in his creation or in his people, God is glorified. When we pray that our lives may glorify him, we are asking that the self may be put down."
(Elisabeth Eliot)

God loves us and will use many ways and instruments to keep us in His company. He will draw us to Him through people, events, and circumstances. Sometimes He will send us unexpected messengers.

There it was one day, the surprise of an insignificant, tiny white butterfly, which seemed to carry an invitation for me to God's banquet. My answer, through His grace, led to a simple blog, which now evolved into this website.

White butterfly is a gathering place where God invites all to HONOR and GLORIFY Him, each in one’s unique way.

Please join us by sending us contributions for any of the website categories: ROAD TO EMMAUS, A RELEVANT CHURCH, DISCOVER, GIFTS & GRACES, and PANANAGUTAN.

We await you!

Sometimes your incredible experience of God's love, fidelity, or mercy inspires you to write about it with kindled heart and spirit, or simply in a jubilant burst of unceasing gratitude.

If you want to contribute an article,

Join us and send it here!

ARCHIVES

2025

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017
Copyright © White Butterfly