St. Antoninus House, our mission residence in Gen. Santos City is situated on a property that is just a little more than a hectare located at Purok Matatag in Barangay San Isidro. It is about 5 kilometers away from the center of the city. Our...
I arrived in Davao City for my new assignment on the first week of June 2011. At the arrival area of Francisco Bangoy International Airport in Davao City, I saw a billboard welcoming visitors to the city and announcing that Mindanao is a typhoon free...
Imagine a hotel managed and administered by religious sisters. About fifteen minutes drive from Puerto Princesa Airport, by the bay of Palawan, is the Holy Trinity University Sienatel Training Hotel. Holy Trinity University, which will celebrate its 75th foundation anniversary next year, is owned and...
Our trip to Kiamba took about one hour and twenty minutes. Passing by Maasim, the first town north of Gen. Santos City, Kiamba is about ninety kilometres away. We were on our way to St. Anthony of Padua Parish to attend the joint recollection of...
Growing up as a child in a Catholic family and going to a Catholic school, my parents were close to Fr. Leonardo Agcaoili, our parish priest at San Bartolome Parish in Malabon. It was from Fr. Agcaoili that we received our first holy communion when...
Eversince I was assigned in Mindanao three years ago, I have become a “frequent flyer”, since my job as the promoter of missions in the Dominican Province of the Philippines and as superior of our mission in Mindanao requires me to go to Manila every...
The Kaamulan festival is held annually in Malaybalay City, Bukidnon from the second half of February to the first week of March. It is held to celebrate the culture and tradition of the seven ethnic tribal groups – Bukidnon, Higaonon, Talaandig, Manobo, Matigsalug, Tigwahanon and...
About two months ago, I wrote an article here on Slice of Life about a B’laan tribal leader, volunteer, pastor and guide named Dodong Guk. Several months ago, he lost his teenage daughter to liver cirrhosis. Because of the expenses he incurred from his daughter’s...
After I was ordained as a Dominican priest in 1993, my assignments have been in the three campuses of Colegio de San Juan de Letran or Letran College for short. I spent one year in Calamba, Laguna campus (1993-1994), twelve years in the “mother campus”...
(Part 2 of 2) In Malabon, “saging na turon” or banana wrapped in lumpia wrapper and fried with brown sugar, is called “Valencia”. It often has “langka” or ripe jack fruit wrapped in lumpia wrapper together with the banana. What is popularly called “dinuguan”, or pork...
