JUNE'S PICKS

The Art of Homeschooling: Faith, Hope, and Love

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TINA SANTIAGO RODRIGUEZ “If you want your children to grow up pro-God, pro-family, and pro-life, homeschool them.” I still remember these paraphrased words from Brian Clowes, a pro-life advocate from Human Life International. He spoke at...

My Tukayo (Namesake), My Friend

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DR. EUSTAQUIO 'BOY' ABAY Unlike me, his name — JOSE MARIA 'BOY' LOCSIN MONTELIBANO — smelled of roses and spoke of nobility. (As for me, I had fistfights almost weekly in grade school — all because...

From Porridge to Priesthood: My Journey to the Society of Jesus

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JOSEPH TIENG CHANRA I am a Jesuit Scholastic from Cambodia. My journey to the Society of Jesus began most unexpectedly—with a bowl of porridge. In 2009, I visited Taom Parish with my classmates. It was my first...

Discovering God’s Radical Generosity

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MICHAELANGELO AGUIRRE I wish to start with four letters: AMDG. This sharing is 'For the Greater Glory of God!' It was in 2015 when God put my family and me to a great test. I had a...

Extravagant Love

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JOSE PAOLO MUNGCAL I was a 12-year-old attendee of a Youth for Christ (YFC) camp thirty-one years ago. My father, then a leader in Couples for Christ (CFC), excitedly registered me among a hundred teenage...

Praying Through Service

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JASON GONZALES It’s been 14 years since I ran away and joined the colorful circus that is local politics. I was in my 20s, wide-eyed, and like the cinematic P.T. Barnum, I was filled with...

#HappyHealthyHopeful

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NANCY CHICHIOCO RAZON   https://youtu.be/D7OFtnKPfzQ   2022:  This year was a good year! Though my candidates for the National Elections didn't make it, feeling that something good would happen soon kept me in high spirits, remaining hopeful. The...

Children See God

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ERNIE MAIPID JR 'Is God a man or a woman?', 9-year-old Lexa, my granddaughter, asks me one afternoon as I open our confirmation session for their questions. I had been having the high of my life,...

A Father’s Legacy

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BERNIE CUEVAS A friend shared this with me in my messenger sometime in April this year from the FB account of Paracale Memories. Entitled "Paracale-Our Legends and Language#4," – it was the fourth in a...

Mommy

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  EMMANUEL C. NAZARENO My parents, Norberto "Boy" and Evelyn, recently passed away - three months apart - in February and May, respectively. My sister, Pia N. Acevedo, wrote an earlier article about them in White...