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 [...]

The Chaplet of the Divine Mercy–Available for Download

by J. Angelo
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We are helping distribute an audio and audio/visual media of the Divine Mercy prayers produced by someone close to us. I’ve made the audio files available for download here, and I will encode the video version soon. If you would prefer it in hard media (CDs), then please email me so I can [...]

Moderate Your Meat

‘Tis again the season of LENT—it officially kicked off on Ash Wednesday 6 February and will culminate on Easter Sunday, 23 March. Lent, for most Christians, is the 40 days liturgical season of fasting and prayer before Easter. During Lent, 2 days are days of fasting—Ash Wednesday and Good Friday, while all other Fridays are [...]

Truth and Accountability Mass@ATENEO

Date: Monday, February 18, 2008
Time: 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Location: Church of the Gesu, Ateneo de Manila University

Vince and I attended the Mass—-it was a mass in search of TRUTH, ACCOUNTABILITY AND REFORM. It was a mass concelebrated with [...]

Happy Birthday to Me. Am 50! Am 50! Am 50!

I have postponed writing this piece till the last moment, as words would not form to catch that truly awesome feeling of turning gold—a milestone in my life.

Years ago, I would have dreaded turning 50, imagined myself to be gray and weary, old and cranky, wobbly and wrinkly. It was always a guessing game when [...]

WYSIWYG with Happy Slip

By now, Christine Gambito aka Happy Slip would have been back to the USA. But definitely, she has left a mark in the hearts of many Filipinos—those who have known her just recently (through her trips around the country and TV guestings) or to the many who have been her fans for a long time [...]

28 Years Married–still on solid foundation!

28 years ago today, I walked down the aisle to say my “I do”. Two simple words, very simple, easy to keep in mind—yet very powerful. They meant a life-time commitment. I was so young then, 21 going 22. Did I know where I was going to? Did I know what was in store [...]

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