Memoirs and songs.
It’s dawn. From my bed, the sky is a gradient of orange and blue. Orange grows to an intense amber, and blue fades into light. Silhouette of trees turns into the full bloom of day.
The journey had begun long before I joined the Jesuit Prenovitiate at the Arvisu House. The Jesuit Promotions Team in the Philippines invited young men to attend the Vocation Workshop in December 2001 at the Sacred Heart Novitiate in Novaliches. The workshop was an introduction […]
Memoir
Faith and Reason In the Renaissance, I’ve learned, there was a growing attention toward promoting the human mind and the science of the natural world. With it came an attempt to reconcile our faith with both reason and science. These components of human development and […]
Essay
For most of my life, I had wanted to be a priest. But didn’t become one. I remember when my grade three teacher in España, Sibuyan Island, Romblon, Mrs. Roldan, asked us to write down what we would like to become someday. In the dimly lit […]
Memoir
This continues my thoughts and insights gained from a Church history course. It was said Luther didn’t intend to leave the Catholic Church when he started causing protestations surrounding the abuse of selling indulgences. Doctrinal differences may have surfaced later on and had indeed reinforced […]
Essay
