In The Hole

I am being assigned to our parish in Laguna for the first time and already there are two people who have expressed to me their happiness at having me stay with them. The first is the former College Dean of Colegio San Agustin-Biñan and the other is an alumna of the same school whom I met through the... Sign in to see full entry.

We had our 40th commencement exercises today. 895 potential nurses, engineers, teachers, medical technologists, business men and women, accountants were given their diplomas. And we have a big unemployment problem in the Philippines. And two of those graduates have been almost my children for the... Sign in to see full entry.

The sight of The MoneyPot breaking into the top fifty blogs here at Blogit reminded me of the time when I was writing for Suite101.com. I had the Catholic Bible Study section under Religion and Spirituality and I never really knew whether I had any readers except two people -- one another Suite101... Sign in to see full entry.

The Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines had an advanced screening of "The Passion" which will be shown around Holy Week in this part of the world. Apart from a report given by Zenit.ORG on the positive evaluation that our bishops gave the film, I saw a film review this morning in the... Sign in to see full entry.

There has been much debate in our country regarding the death penalty, especially because the issue has been "resurrected" by a President that wants to be re-elected. Well, of course, our Conference of Catholic Bishops in the Philippines have been quite vocal about it. Quite recently, Karl Keating... Sign in to see full entry.

"To begin writing," my old English teacher once said, "start with a true sentence." Until now I am wondering: where do I put the stress? On "true", or on "sentence?" Boh! Sign in to see full entry.

Fr. R. A. beat me to the dailies again so I had to content myself with a local daily some old magazines and the Manila Bulletin, the pro-government paper which no one among seems to read. The Visayan Daily Star carries an article about The Passion called "Vatican Sermon Criticises Passion." It is a... Sign in to see full entry.

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I am posting here an article from Zenit.ORG. The topic? Father Cantalamessa's (the Pope's Retreat Preacher) thoughts on the Passion of the Lord. I think that the words of this eloquent preachers echoes some of the sentiments here already expressed about The Passion of the Lord in -- perhaps -- a... Sign in to see full entry.

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