[caption id="attachment_12258" align="alignright" width="350"] "I want to be only a poor friar who prays – if God sees blemishes even in the angels, can you imagine what He sees in me!" - Padre Pio[/caption]Feast Day: September 23 3:00 a.m. His day began. He liked to spend several...
Sa taon ng Eyukaristiya, sino nga ba dapat ang magsasabing, "halika sa Simbahan, pasok tayo?" Gaano nga ba kahalaga ang isang oras natin sa loob? Heto ang isang email na aking natanggap. Do you have the same mind? Are you on the same boat? * *...
THE VOCATION STORY OF FR. NOEL GASTONES DIOCESAN CATECHISTS AND PASTORAL DIRECTOR, DIOCESE OF TAGUM What’s your ambition in life? The slum book question went. The high school student Noel was stumped for an answer. He decided to copy his best friend’s “I want to be a...
[gallery columns="1" size="full" ids="12281,12282,12283,12284"] Natukod tuig 2005 dinhi sa Marahan, si Fr. Stanley Yang maoy unang nahimong kura paroko. Niining tuiga usab gisaulog ang unang kapistahan diin si Sr. San Miguel Archangel ang patron. Ang mga parokyano ang naningkamot kauban si Fr. Yang sa pagpangita ug 2...
Then it happened. I went to the emergency room which is a small room. My husband was on a bed. I went to him immediately. I held him and told him I have already arrived. When he heard my voice, he opened his eyes. That gave me...
“I was already working when I thought about my vocation. I was then a radio personality in DXDA-AM radio station in Bayugan City,” Sr. Lydia Sumampong, SFIC, started. “My involvement in the two religious organizations in the church such as the Catholic Charismatic Renewal Movement and...
Dear KNOT, Our community holds a vigil every First Friday. That night of September 1 only a few came and so we fused the 2 groups for a 2 hour vigil while the next batch took over after us. We started about 8:15. I could not...
The Jubilee Year of Mercy is an unusual jubilee event. It is both a happy and disturbing. Jubilees are always celebration of joyful fellowship and marked by festivities. They are celebrations of gratitude and recognition of accomplishments and progress by a community or society. Unlike...
On October 16, 1989 at 12 midnight I lost my husband of 23 years, Joe, due to cardiac arrest. He died in a tiny hospital in Mati, Davao Oriental. It was the most significant of my personal experience of grieving. While grieving is never the...
Several bomb attacks have rocked my city of Davao for the last 33 years but the latest four explosions are believed to be most tragic due to its death toll and location. San Pedro Cathedral was bombed twice: in 1981 with 17 deaths and 1993...