Memoirs and songs.
The sun was rising behind the thin outlines of Mt. Guiting-Guiting. The panorama of the mountain stood tall above the stillness of sea and clouds. In the villages below, roofs made of galvanized sheets and thatches of nipa started to appear. The soft breeze swayed […]
Giant palm-shaped islands sprawled out into the Persian Gulf, north of Dubai. They stretched like fourteen fingers toward the sea which was why they were called The Palm. A sand bar made a halo around the fronds which shielded the houses and buildings from the […]
Memoir
When I was in Grade three, my classmates and I were having our morning vegetable gardening in school. We were pulling out the weeds, raking and cultivating the dirt. One of my classmates, Analisa (Lisa Rubio Casuga), found a glittering object that looked like a […]
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
Vocations and Conversions There might be a dwindling number of vocations to the priesthood and the religious today, but we are still blessed with our clergy and religious brothers and sisters. Other than the vocations, an area I could think of is the RCIA formation, […]
Essay
