A few years ago, sometime in April 2013, my son gave me a Pandora bracelet as an advanced birthday gift. I don’t wear it regularly for fear of losing it.
Category: Religion
April 14, 2017 Good Friday I think this was the very first time that I spent the Holy Week abroad. I also missed my yearly panata to distribute ice cold
Flashback October 2013 I was walking down the Royal Mile when I saw a big old church. I just presumed it was a Catholic church so I went inside. It
Today’s Homily was about temptation, doubts and lies. According to Father Bong, temptation is not a sin by itself. But it invites us to commit sin. Despite God’s order not
I was not able to attend Sunday masses on a regular basis while I was traveling but I made it a point to visit chapels and churches several times a
We went to the chapel this afternoon at 2 pm and stayed there for about 10-15 minutes. Generally the same prayers. But today I made a special request for my
I tried to avoid the fiesta mass goers in the morning so I purposely arrived in Pilapila after noon. I caught the tail-end of the mass baptism with 58 babies
My daughter said we haven’t received the Holy Communion for a long long time. We have to go to confession first. Missing a Sunday mass already is a mortal sin.
I visited the Our Lady of Lourdes church one afternoon to offer candles. There was an afternoon wedding being held. I left the main church and moved to the side
This Santo Nino was a gift from one of OMB readers, named Cristina. From the altar, I moved it to my son’s bedroom, on top of his cabinet shelf. I
Every night I bring the Bible to my son’s room and we read a few verses aloud, together. I photocopied some of the paragraphs and placed it in his wallet.
Never pa ako nagpunta sa St. Luke’s Global na hindi ako naligaw. Today I asked for direction four times. Paikot-ikot ako. Nakakatakot siguro dito pag gabi na. The good thing
I thought I wouldn’t have the energy to do what we do every Good Friday. I felt like a floating toad, sitting on a leaf not knowing where the current
Because I live far away and have many pressing matters to attend to, I was not able to be here personally to oversee the preparation for the Holy Wednesday procession.
From the old building with swimming pool and spa, we crossed the street again and walked uphill. There’s a small candle station. My kids and I light 4 candles. 4