Author: Rowena Nuera

It was in 2010 that I first started my apostolate in the female city jail. My first batch of students was 15 female inmates. I was tutoring them for their ALS (Alternative Learning System). It was a rewarding and fulfilling feeling when all of the...

The Department of Education (DepEd) in the Philippines is planning to adopt the school calendar of the SUCs (State Universities and Colleges). This would mean that the opening of every school year to all DepEd schools will start on the first day of August and...

February is the month of love. It is a time for Valentine’s Day and a time for remembering love. It is also a time to put emphasis on the importance of love in our lives. For all the over-romanticizing and blatant commercialism during the love month,...

Every Filipino wastes at least two tablespoons of rice per day and that is according to a survey conducted by National Food Authority in 2013. If we have to remember the year 2013 was declared by then president Noynoy Aquino as “The National Year of...

This is not about the 2002 Star Cinema movie entitled Nine Mornings starred by Piolo Pascual and Donita Rose. This is not about the Nine Mornings of a Vincentian festivity either. Rather, nine-mornings is the slang expression for simbang gabi or misa de gallo. In my...