Cover Stories Section
All things bright and beautiful Santa Isabel was just two blocks away from the house, every day my nanny would pick me up from school to take lunch at home. She carries a huge umbrella to ke... Read more
AS AN ESSENTIAL part of our retreat, we, Totus Tuus Journeyers, watched a movie after dinner, having absorbed the necessary preparations for tomorrow’s consecration and settled comfort... Read more
THE NINE-MONTH long Totus Tuus Journey of Marian advocates culminated in a solemn ceremony at the Sto. Cristo de Montfort Quasi-Parish in San Jose del Monte City, Bulacan. Four of the 18 adh... Read more
TO HELP PEOPLE under the influence of drugs find a new direction in life, Fazenda da Esperança offers a different way of dealing with vices. Fazenda’s program does not dwell so... Read more
KUYA JOWELL YM’D me a video on Fazenda da Esperança, literal Portuguese for “Farm of Hope.” I watched it with perfunctory interest but decided to repeat the viewing serious... Read more
The story of Sister Teresita Castillo and the supposed Marian apparitions of Lipa City, Philippines reads something like a mystery novel.A negative judgement given in a document signed by lo... Read more
To many, the start of Simbang Gabi often signals that “Christmas is around the corner”. Come Dec. 16, churches at dawn are packed to overflowing with the faithful — young ones and seniors, p... Read more
When It Rains
IF MY SLEEVES were rolled up in support of the preparations for PREX Class 37 of San Jose ang Tagapagtanggol Parish, my presence at the Our Lady of Annunciation Praesidium’s Christmas... Read more
Two old friends meet again. ATE MALOU WAS on time. She did not have to ring the bell a second time for I was out in a flash. She smiled as I emerged and so did the tricycle driver who was wa... Read more
ATE THELMA TEXTED me early Thursday morning that she won’t be able to join us at our weekly BEC meeting that night. Her husband’s first cousin died and they were going to the wak... Read more