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176 total views Today we spend an extra Sunday for the Christmas Season’s Feast of Sto. Niño granted by Rome to the local Church in recognition of the important role played by that image of the Holy Child gifted by Magellan to Queen Juana of Cebu in 1521. Its role in the Christianization of the country
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731 total views June 1, 2020, 12:27PM The saga of religious services in the time of COVID-19 By: Jerome R. Secillano, MPA The community quarantine is slowly easing up but some sectors are still not happy with the IATF’s recommendation as it left some vital institutions to remain “under control” in the General Community Quarantine (GCQ)
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293 total views By Bro. Clifford T. Sorita Though in a 2009 study by Phillippa Lally and her team at the University College of London, which stipulates that it will take 66 days (not 21 days) to establish new automatic behaviors; our 45-day enhanced community quarantine will definitely bring to light a “NEW NORMAL” in our
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750 total views Jerome R. Secillano, MPA One silver lining in this era of COVID 19 is the discovery of our innate capacity to sacrifice for the sake of the greater good. Everyone is sacrificing. Others though have done more so that others may live. The frontliners especially our health practitioners are basically offering their lives
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263 total views By: Bro. Clifford Sorita March 26, 2020, 1:19PM “This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all” (1 John 1:5). Truly, despite the gloom and darkness we now face amid this COVID-19 Pandemic, we are reminded that
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379 total views March 25, 2020, 3:51PM CATHOLIC BISHOP CONFERENCE OF THE PHILIPPINES MESSAGE FOR THE NATIONAL WEEK OF PRAYER Archbishop Romulo G. Valles, DD CBCP President The declaration by our National Government for a National Week of Prayer is very much appreciated. It shows that we are a nation that is truly “Maka-Diyos”, a people
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731 total views by: Fr.Jerome Secillano, MPA Executive Secretary CBCP-Public Affairs Committee March 19, 2020, 12:04PM The government is right in declaring a total lockdown in the metropolis and the rest of Luzon as a way of containing the spread of corona virus in the country. Judging though from the public’s reaction, it appears that the
