Mention the feast “Pentecost” and the coming of the Holy Spirit comes to mind. But Pentecost was not about the Holy Spirit. It wasn’t even a Christian celebration. Pentecost

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Yesterday, I was left alone at a friend’s house and I decided to watch this movie called “Facing the Giants”. The movie is about a high school football team that has grown accustomed to losing. Parents blame head coach Grant Taylor. Taylor blames his apathetic players. And the players blame former star players who transferred to other teams to escape the vicious cycle in hopes of being noticed by college scouts. With Taylor’s job on the line, and his personal life in chaos (he’s growing tired of not being able to provide a nice car and home for his wife, and he’s just discovered that he’s the reason his wife can’t get pregnant), he turns to God in a deep and moving way. Read the rest of this entry

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Have you ever heard this? “Sapagkat ako’y tao lamang.” It’s often used to excuse one’s failings, especially moral failings. Yes, we’re human. But we’re not condemned to be base (as in ‘basic’ instinct). We’re born for greater things. Ascension of our Lord

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You would probably associate the Holy Spirit with the image of a dove. But would you ever think of him as a lawyer? And yet that is what Jesus calls the Holy Spirit in this Sunday’s gospel. 6th Sunday of Easter (A)

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Do you know what the 3 o’clock habit is? Do you know to what devotion it is connected with? Do you know what is the “slogan” of that devotion? Well, I propose a re-wording of that “slogan”. I don’t think Sr. Faustina would mind. 5th Sunday of Easter (A)

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St. John Bosco (1815-1888) as a young priest was hired as a chaplain in a hospice founded by a noblewoman. During his free time he gathered the poor and abandoned boys he could find in Turin for fun, for catechism and for mass. This he called the Oratory. At a certain point, the noblewoman asked Don Bosco (that is, Father Bosco) to choose between her hospice and his Oratory. His decision was quick. But it wasn’t an easy one to make. Why? 4th Sunday of Easter (A)

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They will storm the Davao City council meeting on Tuesday. Find out more at Catholic Church vs Davao City

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In the Sound of Music, there’s a song entitled: “Maria”. In that song the Mother Abbess sings: “How do you solve a problem like Maria?” Although the song presents Maria as an enigma, it does have a hint of exasperation. In today’s gospel Jesus doesn’t give a hint. He makes it very clear how exasperated he was with his disciples inability to understand what he had been saying concerning his death and resurrection. Third Sunday of Easter

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Despite persistent lobbying by the Catholic Church, the Department of Education is bent on teaching sex education in the public high schools. Find out more at Philippines Department of Education launches Sex Education in High School.

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Horrors of horrors, that was the first thing that came to my mind when I saw a local paper’s front page last Thursday. It carried the news of the destruction of one of Cebu’s oldest churches. The 160-year old Immaculate Conception Parish and its convent in the southern town of Oslob was gutted by fire.

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After suffering a defeat, the theological empire strikes again. Read more @ Catholic Church vs Quezon City: Round 2

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“We went there just to watch someone being nailed on the cross?”

And so asked my younger brother Andre Sandino on our family’s way home from Mantalongon, Dalaguete in Southern Cebu where we spent the Holy Week to witness the Pasyon sa Mantalongon last March 21, 2008.

Apparently, local Mantalongon residents, along with people from neighboring towns and barangays, the Cebu City-based media, freelance photographers, road trippers (like Eloise who have more artistic photos of the event here), and foreign tourists also went out of their way to be in Cristo Rey Mountain Park, Mantalongon first hand to watch the live reenactment of Jesus Christ’s crucifixion by Gilbert Bargayo.

The holding of the Good Friday event faced stiff opposition from a reactionary local official who sent goons to threaten local residents from participating in the Pasyon, absurdly thinking that it would diminish his feudal influence in the area. This, however, did not prevent more than 10,000 to 15,000 people (according to police estimates) from witnessing the affair.

So here are a few crude pictures of last Friday’s extraordinary happening in Mantalongon, which is Cebu’s summer capital and vegetable basket (click the photo for the full image):

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If you are wondering where the Easter bunny and Easter eggs came from, well it is a symbol representing the gods of the spring and fertility passed on from generations to generations.

Easter is thought to come from the Scandinavian “Ostra” and the Teutonic “Ostern” or “Eastre,” both goddesses of mythology signifying spring and fertility.

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