Close but no cigar
We Filipinos understand failure; we live with it, joke about it and turn it into karaoke by midnight.
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We Filipinos understand failure; we live with it, joke about it and turn it into karaoke by midnight.
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Education does not merely fill the mind with lessons. It forms in us the capacity to recognize what is good, what is worthy of respect, and what can be…
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People don’t care about political battles. They just want to turn on their electric fan or air conditioner without going broke.
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When corrections and community move together, rehabilitation goes beyond rhetoric — it becomes fact.
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Our national story has long included difficult, imperfect, but real attempts to live across religious differences without reducing one another to caricature.
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Our old selves have already been dissolving while a new one is being built. Like freshly tilled soil in the process of the planting season, the new is now…
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There is another kind of courage less often spoken of, the kind that comes after visible courage. My grandfather, Rufino Navarro, had this courage.
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There are nine readings for the Easter Vigil, though these may be reduced to five: three from the Old Testament and two from the New Testament. The reading…
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Holy Week invites us to see golf in a slightly different light. Not as an escape from real life, but sometimes as a mirror of it.
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The Lenten season embodies selflessness and sacrifice. External circumstances may shake it, but the core values of compassion, community and faith remain…
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As the Holy Week exodus fills roads and transport hubs, Holy Wednesday unfolds in a markedly different tone inside churches across the Philippines, quieter,…
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The annual “Pasyon Mahal” returned for its fifth year at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes, drawing parishioners for a Holy Week observance centered…
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Winford Resort & Casino Manila will host an Easter Soiree on Sunday, 5 April, at the Winford Ballroom, offering a family-oriented celebration from 2 p.m.…
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As children, we did not fully understand the theology behind it. But we understood the silence. It was not empty — it was heavy, meaningful, almost sacred.
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Armed Forces of the Philippines chief of staff Gen. Romeo Brawner Jr. on 30 March 2026 called on military and civilian personnel to reflect on service and…
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The Manila Electric Company assured customers of stable and reliable electricity service throughout the Holy Week, with response teams on standby to address…
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