"Frontliners" used to refer to soldiers in the frontlines of battle. The word now refers to physicians or medical doctors fighting to save people from deadly Covid-19. Why do they go into gardening? Why is gardening a spiritual path to God? Because it is an essay,...
ONE good and positive aspect of any crisis we may be having, like what we have these days with this COVID pandemic, is that it is actually a good occasion to see how we are as a person, a child of God, a citizen, a...
I REMEMBER a TV commercial sometime ago that had this punchline: “Kanino ka ba babangon?” (For whom do you get up in the morning?) I imagine it was supposed to highlight the motivation one has in getting up so early in the morning, do some...
EVERYONE should have a healthy self-esteem. If we don’t have it yet, then let’s develop it and help everyone else to have it. A healthy self-esteem is important since only then can we have a good understanding of things and work properly as well. Without this...
Education plays a very important role in the growth of the person and in ordering the society. It should include, first and foremost, spiritual formation. This week is National Catechetical Week. Just as the Department of Education is doing all that they can to continue to...
Now that Davao City's situation due to the pandemic that is Covid-19 is classified under Modified General Community Quarantine (MGCQ), Mayor Sara Duterte has enjoined the public to self-regulate. As the city allowed businesses and churches to open, it lifted the use of food and...
IF we truly are in love, we would like to know how much love we are giving and whether the love we have is true love or is just an appearance of it. We know very well that we are fond of saying we love...
On the occasion of National Heroes Day celebrated yearly on August 31, we again ask the question, lest we forget, the difference between martyr, hero/heroine, and patriot. Without consulting the Webster dictionary we can respond with the common and popular understanding of the words. A martyr...
CHRIST warned the apostles about false doctrine. That’s when he told them, “Be on guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.” (Mt 16,6) The apostles at first thought Christ was faulting them for not bringing bread, until they were corrected and later understood...
WE should never forget this fact of life. As long as we live in this planet, we are actually being tested to see if we love God or our own selves, if we choose to do good or to opt for the pleasurable or convenient...