With summer only a few weeks around the bend, students are super restless to get out there and enjoy! After all that work, projects, presentations, [PANT! PANT! PANT!] examinations and competitions, they’re surely entitled to a big long BREAK! Will get to the subject of...
With everyone so conscious about health, weight and calories a diet comes naturally to mind. There are so many forms of diets available in our planet, but their effectiveness depends on how much one puts his mind and will to following them religiously. One can easily...
“Now, place the baby sheep beside the shepherd, Charlotte.” Charlotte carefully puts the figure beside the shepherd. “Is this okay, daddy?” she asked. “You’re a natural artist, honey. You must have gotten it from your mother,” her father kissed her on the forehead. “Can I throw this old...
Samantha was cuddling the doll of the baby Jesus and gently rocking it to sleep in her arms. “Sleep little Jesus, sleep…,” she whispered a childish lullaby. “Sam,” I interrupted her. “You’re going to make me sleep with that sweet dreamy song.” “I’m singing it for...
“I gave a beggar my merienda,” Gerard said. “That will be rewarded with be one step forward for your sheep, Gerard,” teacher Larry helped him move his little sheep figurine closer to the manger. “Now, boys…,” he reminded them. “Remember what I told you in our last...
I was asked to give a talk on how parents can nourish their children’s faith better. But how to make it more interesting and memorable? The answer came after watching a very touching commercial video of a mother writing down her “final” bucket-list before she died....
“That’s the fiftieth bag I’ve packed,” Drew proudly exclaimed. Bagging relief goods may sound fun at the start. But with time, one’s fingers and palms begin to get numb-red and the task becomes rather boring and tedious. Drew, however, was not going to be daunted by...
As the Year of Faith draws to a close, I pondered on what I could probably write about to end it with a ‘twang’! I then re-read Benedict XVI’s Apostolic Letter and the following words once again caught my attention: “Faith grows when it is lived...
A long, long time before the term ‘cafeteria Christian’ was coined, the holy Bishop of Hippo, St. Augustine, had to deal with the lapsi. These were Christians who abandoned their faith –obviously out of fear of being executed or exiled– by offering incense to the...
“How can God fit in the host?” “Why can’t I see Jesus in the white thing?” “If I bite the host, do I also bite Jesus?” “How can Jesus fit inside me?” “Why do we eat Jesus, can I keep Him in my pocket?” “Will Jesus be mad with my...
