Prayer during Disasters
In these desperate times of disaster and crisis, here is an appropriate prayer to make: “Almighty Father, we raise our hearts to You in gratitude for the wonders of creation of which we are...
Category: Christianity
Prayer In Times of Calamity
I found this while looking for a prayer for the disaster victims of the Dumaguete earthquake. It is three years old, but it is an appropriate prayer guide for our brothers and sisters in...
God Is An Embarrassment in our Lives
We actually don’t know what to do with God. At least, we don’t know how to share our feelings about Him without seeming awkward or out of place. We go to the weekly Mass,...
Sainthood and the Moral Horizon
Popular culture disdains the saint because of what he represents: the complete lack of “moral allowance”. They cannot do wrong, are not tempted to tear out the tire of that one person you despise, or...
A Silent Call to the EDSA Generation
History books and heroes carried an EDSA that was about setting things right in the Philippines, and maybe some of them had the right idea, but mostly, the context of that demonstration was misunderstood....
Gloria Arroyo and the Hitler Complex
We are forever frustrated by the continued existence of Gloria Arroyo as President. But would you have stood up to Hitler’s Germany? And can you really stand up to Arroyo’s Philippines?
A Celebration of Love
Have you ever looked in the eyes of a mother, after giving birth to her child? If you stood close to her when she was in labor—the one without anesthetics, the natural labor—you would...
Awakenings
I can’t explain it. It was a revelation based on logic, and I had that idea even before. So why did I suddenly feel so much emotional upheaval, as if I was being shaken...
Happily Ever After
We live in a cynical world. In our search for Love and Happiness, we found only pain and suffering. In our labors to find the goodness of the human heart, we have found only...
Suffer Love
We look for signs of love in flowers, red roses, and sweet words. But the real sign of Love can be found in her tears, and her callused hands, and her tired sighs…
