The Rosary in My Life
As far as I can remember, I started praying the rosary at an early age, as soon as I started going to school. I must be about four or five years old then. Our house is situated within a compound, where the ancestral house of...
Category Archives: Slice of Life
A Volunteer Doctor to the Lumads
[caption id="attachment_8669" align="alignright" width="350"] Photo courtesy Silang Wala sa Mapa (GMA)[/caption]I first met Dr. Roel Cagape in a recollection of the clergy of the Diocese of Marbel in the parish church of Malapatan, Sarangani. He was invited to speak before the priests and bishop of...
Diyos na ang Bahala
Nagising ako isang umaga na may malamig na simoy ng hangin ang umiihip sa bintana ng kuwarto ko. Naisip ko, paano kaya ako maliligo? Ang ginaw! Maaga pa naman ang misa ko. Kaya nagpainit ako ng isang baldeng tubig sa banyo gamit ang water heater...
Our Lady of Mount Matutum Trappistine Monastery
[caption id="attachment_8544" align="alignright" width="350"] Photo Courtesy trappistevitorchiano.it[/caption]The road is bumpy and dusty in the midst of hectares upon hectares of pineapple plantations where the canning plant of Dole Philippines is located. About 15 kilometers from the town center of Polomolok is a road that leads...
“Milbuk Parish”
[caption id="attachment_8388" align="alignright" width="350"] Photo courtesy milbuklegacy.com[/caption]The parish church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help of the Diocese of Marbel is located along the shore of Barangay Milbuk in Palembang, Sultan Kudarat in Mindanao. It is about 150 kilometers away from Gen. Santos City. Having...
The Dominican Laity of Gensan
[caption id="attachment_8143" align="alignright" width="350"] Entrance to Our Lady of Manaoag Chapel, GenSan. (Photo Courtesy Myrna Agetro FB)[/caption]About two years ago, a year after I arrived in Gen. Santos City for my new assignment, we started to organize the Lay Dominican group. The Dominican Order, as...
My 12 Years of Seminary Formation
IT was about two months after I graduated from high school that I entered the Dominican seminary on June 6, 1981. I was 17 years old then. The first stage of my seminary formation was called Aspirancy. Our batch was composed of 18 first year...
Coins and the Mustard Seed
There is a saying that “great things come from small beginnings”. There is this story of a boy from Gensan who lived a life of abject poverty. He lived with his parents, sister, and two younger brothers in a single-room shack in a rugged landscape of...
Send a child to school
Last May 2015, the Dominican Missions launched a Facebook page called “Send A Child To School”. This is to support the education of high school students studying in our mission schools in our mission stations in the Babuyan Islands. This educational assistance program was initiated...
Outreach Project To Ambulong Island
[caption id="attachment_7877" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Fr. Joemar Sibug with the kids of Ambulong Island[/caption] I had no idea where Ambulong Island is until I got a text message from the barangay secretary of the place. I found out that Ambulong is an island barangay of San Jose,...