Abducted 3-year old boy, Matthew David Samudio FOUND!

UPDATE: 25 JULY 2008

From ABS CBN News Hotline

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Matthew David Samudio, the three-year-old boy who was reportedly abducted inside a video arcade at a mall in Alabang, Muntinlupa City, was reunited with his family Thursday.

A security guard found the boy walking around the Sta. Rosa Commercial Complex in Sta. Rosa, Laguna.

A beautiful story of a father’s love

On 5 July, Sunday, Paulynn Chang walked down the aisle to wed her beloved Paul Afable. All throughout the emotional affair, Paulynn’s father, Paul Chang (whom I fondly called Mang Paul) was sorely missed. He passed away on 19 October 2006, more than 1-1/2 years ago.

The highlight of the dinner reception was the reading of [...]

Dedma

Hubby came early from work, and we had the chance to go to church together at the Pentecost Church in Loyola Heights. I always like going to church there, as the priests are very dynamic. This time, there was a priest who I did not know, who from the start of the Mass asked, “What [...]

Power of Your Love

Can’t help but share with you the lyrics of one of my favorite church songs—it’s so reassuring and comforting that it always leaves me teary eyed when sung

Lord I come to You
Let my heart be changed, renewed
Flowing from the grace
That I’ve found in You
Lord I’ve come to know
The weaknesses I see in me
Will be stripped [...]

Parenting–The risks I took (and continue to take)

Twenty eight years into parenting, and now I realize that during the course of my parenting career, which continues up to this moment, I have taken risks, too many and too significant not to look back to and assess. This might shock many of you, but before you vent your violent reactions, or stop reading [...]

Happy Father’s Day

If the kids were to write this post they will say:

move over, Sexy Mom
it’s Daddy on the spotlight—it’s his day today!
and we all greet him Happy Father’s Day!

(figuratively, a staircase—parang hagdanan, sunod-sunod)

Happy 15th Birthday, PAULINE, a child but not anymore, a lady but not yet

One day before Pauline’s 15th birthday (26 May), she asked to spend time with family and friends—at the EDSA Shangri-La Hotel. What a pleasant surprise to get a positive response from her 6 other siblings, my hubby and my mom. Summer was so full of activities, that most of the time, I was home alone, [...]

Prayers for the RCBC Laguna carnage victims and their families

ANNOUNCEMENT: HOLY MASS for the victims and their families at the RCBC Building in Makati at 5:30 pm on Tuesday, 20 May 2008.

Except for a few TV programs, I do not watch television, particularly the local news, nor do I read newspapers. The local news on television and the newspapers are generally sensationalized. [...]

Happy Mother’s Day! Happy Children’s Day, too!

Today, Mother’s Day, will be focused on us, dear Mothers, and so I say, Happy Mother’s Day to all of you! To my very own mother, who has been with me through all of a half century, to my aunts, in-laws, friends, wives of friends, young mothers, grandmothera, pseudo-mothers, blogger moms, bloggers’ moms, and my [...]

Starting to Live Life the Way It Should Be Lived

Today has been a highly productive day (and so was yesterday). After weeks of being very busy, I had my sleep, and I have started living life again, the way it should be lived. Yesterday, I went to Toys R Us at Trinoma Mall with my little one, Alan Jr. He bought a 5×5 Rubik’s [...]

A Message of Hope and Love: Happy Easter to Everyone

Catholics all over the world celebrate the Holy Week that starts with the joyful celebration of Palm Sunday, through Christ’s humiliation, suffering and death—The Passion, and culminating on Easter Sunday, when He rose from death—The Resurrection.

Reliving the Holy Week that was—more than 2,000 years ago is what our churches lead us with, to remind us [...]

Lenten Reflections at HolySacrifice.net

by: J. Angelo

If you’re in need of words of wisdom this Lenten season, head over to HolySacrifice.net, one of the latest projects of the Parish of the Holy Sacrifice at UP Diliman, where my wife and I serve.

Our parish priest, Fr. Raymond Arre publishes reflections on the Sunday readings each week. For the fourth [...]

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