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Advocacy gives meaning to life
I have just finished discussing the meaning of the word “advocacy” with Junífera Clarita. I asked her if she has heard of it. She said no. So I explained it to her in the simplest way a nine-year-old kid would understand.
I told her that it is what a person is fighting for. It is a mission, a personal purpose. I cited to her an easy example which she is very familiar with: myself. She and her…
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History with a purpose
Instead of sharing historical trivia simply for the sake of sharing knowledge about our country’s past, put it to good use. Share it with the purpose of enlivening our national identity. A Filipino enlightened by nationalism which is founded on our storied past will give him not just courage and character but a well-polished dignity to face adversaries greater than himself. No amount of exterior…
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Easter Sunday musings
“La Resurrección de Cristo“, tempera on pine wood board by Juan Correa de Vivar (circa 16th century).
I had an awfully difficult Holy Week. Instead of reflection and devotion, it was a week filled with anger, hurt, and even rage. 2024 in the first place didn’t start out right for me.
In January, I forever lost contact with the man whom I considered not only as my mentor of many years but also…
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Thank you all for helping my wife!
Great tidings! 😃
Finally, I was able to discharge my wife Yeyette from Asian Hospital and Medical Center. I was so overjoyed I thought I was going to be hospitalized myself! 🤣
My wife being discharged from Asian Hospital and Medical Center. May we never come back to this elitist hospital ever again… unless we become sickly millionaires, hehehe!
We got out at past two AM on Saturday. Yeyette…
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#Ann Matíbag#Diwa Tayao#Ike Señeres#Orion Pérez#Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office#Robin Padilla#Yeyette Alas
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Cancer can hit anyone
Cancer can hit anyone. It doesn’t recognize between rich and poor, healthy or unhealthy, young and old, good or evil. Whether you’ve done nothing but good towards your fellowmen, whether you’ve been living a healthy lifestyle or not, it can and will still victimize you.
Cancer can hit even the healthiest person, so all theories explaining its causes (stressful lifestyle, eating too much…
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An ashy Valentine's Day
I’m now part of the social media team of Our Lady of Fatima Parish – Elvinda, San Pedro Laguna. The short article below is my first contribution to their Facebook page:
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The charter change puppet
United only for politics, nothing more (📷 Eloisa López / Reuters).
I really do not understand all these anti-charter-change rallies. The powers that be have long painted charter change as if it is a societal evil that nobody should even dare discuss at the dinner table. Through the years, attempts at amending the Constitution have always been opposed and aborted. The mindset is that it should…
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#Bongbong Marcos#charter change#Constitución de la República de Filipinas#prayer rally#Rodrigo Duterte#Sara Duterte
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¡Feliz Año 2024!
📷 George Tapan.
Cada vez que comienza un nuevo año, solemos preguntarnos esto: —¿qué me espera para el nuevo año?
Pero un año no tiene nada almacenado para ti. Un año es sólo un número, un contenedor vacío. Más bien, deberíamos preguntarnos con qué podemos llenar el año 2024. Es absurdo esperar que un año nos depare algo bueno o malo. Somos nosotros quienes debemos llenarlo con cualquier cosa…
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Poemario Rizaliano
Translatio unius poematis Josephus Rizal in Anglicam per Nick Joaquín, Nationalis Artis pro Literature.
Para comprender mejor el talante y la psicología de José Rizal, o quizás su amor apasionado por nuestra patria filipina, es mejor leer sus poemas llenos de amor y esperanza en lugar de sus novelas llenas de ira, desprecio, y dolor.
To better understand the viewpoints and psychology of José…
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Navidad 2023
🎨 SaltaConmigo.
A todos los que lean esto solo quiero que reciban mis saludos navideños: ¡Feliz Navidad!
Sé que ha sido un año difícil para todos nosotros. Todos tuvimos que luchar contra diversas situaciones, lamentablemente contra amigos, colegas, familiares, e incluso contra nuestros propios demonios personales. Pero al final del año, todavía estamos aquí, todavía vivos y coleando, y listos…
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Why do we have "Noche Buena"?
During the Spanish times, when Catholicism still reigned with fervor burning, Filipinos did not eat on the entire day of Christmas Eve. They practiced fasting in preparation for Christmas Day, the only time they were finally allowed to eat, but in festive spirit. This explains why there is so much food during Noche Buena, a practice which now secularized Filipinos, who no longer fast, still hold…
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<em>Misa de Gallo</em>, <em>Simbáng Gabí</em>, or <em>Misa de Aguinaldo</em>?
Misa de Aguinaldo at the Holy Family Church in Cubáo, Quezon City, circa 2014 (Maurice Joseph Almadrones)
The traditional nine-day Christmas Season dawn Masses begin today. People have been calling it either as Misa de Gallo, Simbáng Gabí, or Misa de Aguinaldo. But which of the three, really, is the precise term? Is it acceptable if we just use them interchangeably?
First of all, it should be…
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#Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore#Misa de Aguinaldo#Misa de Gallo#Pope Sisto III#Real Academia Española#Simbáng Gabí
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JoLen: the mother of all Filipino breakups
Before Guy and Pip, Gabby and Sharon, AlDub, and quite recently KathNiel, there was José Rizal and Leonor Rivera or “JoLen”. Theirs can be considered as the “mother of all Filipino breakups”.
Leonor and Rizal were distant cousins. Like Kathryn Bernardo, Leonor was quite young when she started a relationship with Rizal. The pretty lass from Camilíng was only 14 while the Calambeño poet was…
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Lucena City haunted me this afternoon!
I swear, I am NOT kidding! This really happened this afternoon! 👻
I was watching episode 2 of Ms. Marvel (the MCU freak that I am) on my android while lying down on my sleeping mattress here in my mini library. My mattress is right beside one of my bookshelves. The lights are off inside my windowless room. So my only source of light was my android.
All of a sudden, something fell on my chest!…
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#certificate#foundation date#Konseho ng Herencia ng Lucena#Portal de Archivos Españoles#Vladimir Nieto
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The Gómez Sisters featured in The Philippine Star!
TODAY’S BIG NEWS FROM THE WALLED CITY OF INTRAMUROS!
“Meet Anne Louise Gómez and Ysabela Louise Gómez, the Flamenco Sisters reviving this dance for a new generation at the Escuela de Flamenco en Bárbara’s Heritage Restaurant. The young sisters, 26-year-old Anne and 23-year-old Ysabela, perform during weekends to a packed crowd at Bárbara’s Heritage Restaurant in Intramuros…
“…The young women…
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#Anne Louise Gómez#Bárbara de los Reyes#Bárbara&039;s Heritage Restaurant#flamenco#Flamenco Sisters#Guillermo Gómez Rivera#Karl de Mesa#The Philippine Star#Ysabela Louise Gómez
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From Pantheon to "pantiyon"
The Pantheon, Rome, Italy (Wikimedia Commons).
Filipinos in far-flung towns and barrios oftentimes refer to tombstones as panteón*. I first heard the word from my paternal grandmother as a child. I was already steeped into books by then, so when I first heard the word from her, it immediately reminded me of the Pantheon, that famous Roman temple built between the 1st and 2nd centuries. For…
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The Miracle of the Sun
Enough with Friday the 13th conspiracy theories. Because there was a supernatural occurrence —a divine one— which occurred in Fátima, Portugal exactly 106 years ago today, on 13 October 1917. And it’s far more important to discuss. It was a prophesied miracle that was witnessed by thousands upon thousands, including skeptics and atheists, many of whom converted to Catholicism upon witnessing the…
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#First Portuguese Republic#Friday the 13th#Miracle of the Sun#Nuestra Señora de Fátima#Portugal#Virgin Mary
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