THIS IS OUR FOOD As a Filipino, I just had to be there. With some priests from Tagaytay City, I attended the wake of the late President Cory Aquino at the Manila Metropolitan Cathedral. Before the question was “Where you there at Edsa?” Now…
THE FOOD THAT REMAINS I have just finished watching the third season of the TV series, “The Tudors.” The Tudors portray the life of King Henry VIII, the…
SMALL OFFERINGS, BIG MIRACLES Filipino Catholics are very generous. They contribute a lot to society, to the Church and to so many institutions of learning, charity and other worthy causes. I have witnessed first hand the…
A TIME TO WORK, A TIME TO PRAY 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time Everybody will agree that our times call for hard work, assiduous labor, double effort. It should be the case in this period of financial crisis. Businesses are…
YOUR MISSION STARTS HERE, RIGHT NOW 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time Before I became a priest, I had a friend named Dindo, who was also about to become a priest himself. We were ordained priests in the same year and…