Care Talks
ERNIE MAIPID with ARIA
How apt it is that the Church should herald the beginning of a new year with the feast of Mary, Mother of God. With last night's riotous sending-off of the old...
ISADA FAMILY: Life Lessons from a Chocolate Bar and Mango Pit
ROSE CABRERA
As the youngest child in a family of 12 and now a parent myself in her 50s, I appreciate the legacy of our Isada family more. You can imagine the variety of personalities,...
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 at the very first Mass held there:
If you look around...
Love. Motherhood. Borrow. Life Lessons
BET YAP LAZATIN
I wore a white dress that day
I cried and wailed
I did not want to let her go
I found myself the day after
Alone and afraid, confused
Wondering where to go from there
What to do
How...
The Last Quarter of Our Life – The Questions, Fears, Blessings and Gifts of...
JO FAUSTINO-PANLILIO
It is our family vacation, but today, I decided to walk alone by the beach and look into the sea. It is a good day and lovely to stop and watch the sun rising....
Why Girl Scouting Brings Out the Best in Girls
NINA LIM-YUSON*
Were you once a Girl Scout, or a Boy Scout, for that matter? If you did experience Scouting in your life, what stands out? Was it the camping experience, perhaps? Was it a...
Wastelands
*ELISABETH ELLIOT
There are dry, fruitless, lonely places in each of our lives, where we seem to travel alone, sometimes feeling as though we must surely have lost the way. What am I doing here?...
2022, A Year of Healing
BERNADETTE F. CUEVAS
The Christmas Day homily of Fr. Kali Pietre Llamado at the Manila Cathedral talked about the difference in Christmas of 2022. He said we usually think of "a" Christmas as a time...
The Continuance of Legacy
ERNIE MAIPID, JR
The quiet in the car, going home from Christmas eve mass, joyfully broke when seven-year-old Aria, our granddaughter, thoughtfully greeted, 'Merry Christmas to all in this car!' To which, our grandson Andres...
True Hope & Joy of Christmas
CHRISTINE GONZALEZ
IT goes without saying that the last twenty two months of covid-19 lockdown has been very difficult and tumultuous one, so much so that we might be tempted to regard the usual Christmas...