Santacruzan is the Filipino way of remembering the miraculous discovery of the true wooden cross on May 30 by the empress Elena, mother of Emperor Constantine. And it is the wrong way. As a procession it does not look like a religious activity. It looks...
[caption id="attachment_6671" align="alignright" width="540"] Photo Source[/caption] This title is the Spanish for “Flowers of May”. According to Catholic tradition the month of May has always been known and celebrated as the month of Mary, the Mother of Jesus. This practice extends back to the sixteenth century....
It was here in Davao at the Cursillo House, now MIC Retreat Center, sometime in 1971 that the First Mindanao-Sulo Pastoral Conference (MSPC) was held and led by its originator and founder the brilliant, witty and inimitable Archbishop of Zamboanga Lino Gonzaga. It was here that...
The inhuman torture of Jesus and His horrifying death on the cross was carried out by Roman soldiers on orders of Pontius Pilate who was at the time the governor of Judea, a colony of the Roman Empire. The followers of Jesus were equally made...
IF EASTER 2015 means new life, what is new in my life and in the life of our society today? If Easter means the end of a passage, the reaching point of a passover, what is finally achieved in the area of personal and social transformation? What...
In a Herald column in 2005 I wrote about the seeming absence of the cross in our social, economic, political, cultural, and even religious life in this country. To this absence I attribute one strong reason why the process has become ineffective. There is need...
Easter is here again. We all know its deep meaning: God in Jesus rising to new life three days after dying on the cross. With His help we too can experience new life, a rebirth, after dying to our sinfulness. This personal change can affect...
Many of our liturgically-minded priests, religious and laity may be confused by the title of this column. It seems to contradict the rubrics or guidelines of the liturgy. Rubrics, the sentences in red in the Ordo, suggest that during Lent and most especially during Holy...
There are at the moment several groups nationwide working for system change and regime change. The National Transformation Council (NTC) is one of them. As the NTC becomes more and publicly known, some people’s immediate reaction has often been, "Who are these persons claiming to transform...
By Zoe Vidal I humbly propose we stop unfairly attacking Noynoy Aquino. Seriously. The truth is already out: he is a socio-political retardate, and that is not all his fault. He has been suffering from a mental disorder to begin with, in addition to the baggage of traumas that he and his...
