Grateful heart
From the fullness of one’s heart the mouth speaks, says a proverb in the Holy Bible, a precept repeatedly enunciated in the pulpit by homilists and repeatedly heard in retreats and recollections. This is...
Crime doesn’t pay !… ?
Current government officials and employees should make serious introspection on how they can effectively shield themselves from the desire of a perceived happy or fruitful contented life amassing material wealth via graft and corruption.
The...
When poverty is most advisable
THERE’S, of course, a good and a bad poverty. The bad one is common and obvious enough to see, and we have every right and duty to eliminate it. It comes in many forms,...
Ever-flowing compassion
“WHEN Jesus disembarked and saw the vast crowd, his heart was moved with pity for them, for they were like sheep without a shepherd, and he began to teach them many things.” (Mk 6,34)
This...
Matin never tires!!
Like Tacloban, Palo was similarly hit hard by supertyphoon Yolanda. The new municipal building was partially damaged, hundreds of dwellings flattened, some public school buildings got shattered and many more. Yolanda! Yes Yolanda!
Three months...
First in recent years: Unfussy JCI LOs turn-over rite
In my almost two decades of being a JC (short for Jaycee or member of the Junior Chamber International), last January 31 (Chinese New Year) was my first to be part of the simplest...