Coming home to a winter of discontent
For us Filipinos who were glued to the TV watching the Korean telenovela, ‘Crash Landing on You,’ many of the scenes were filmed in Interlaken Lake Brienz and…
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For us Filipinos who were glued to the TV watching the Korean telenovela, ‘Crash Landing on You,’ many of the scenes were filmed in Interlaken Lake Brienz and…
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Without fanfare, I suddenly had a weekly column. And week after week, something quiet happened. I began finding my voice again.
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In one way or another, all of us had been blessed last year. Some blessings were obvious; others came disguised as difficulties.
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Today's Thoughts to Live by, 1 January, Thursday, Octave of Christmas, Solemnity of Mary, the Mother of God.
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As we embark on a New Year, may we entrust ourselves to Mary’s maternal care, asking for her intercession to lead us ever closer to her Divine Son. May her…
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A lesson I learned is that poetry, even as crude as mine, can be learned by anyone, particularly if one is as tongue-tied as me.
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If 2025 had a defining theme, it was accountability. The public demanded it loudly yet it was offered unevenly by those in power.
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So on this first morning after, the invitation is plain: not to prolong the party, but to convert its warmth into structure.
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Joseph had to travel with his pregnant wife Mary to Bethlehem to comply with the Roman Emperor’s directive for all Roman subjects to register for the census in…
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We intrepid Filipinos smartly skirt the English language wars on the Christmas Day greeting by having the best of both worlds.
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The hope of Christmas is not that God will magically erase human sinfulness from on high, but that He equips and empowers humanity to confront it from within.
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Half a world away, people value children but not childhood, which says quite a lot about why our Christmas is so special.
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As the calendar turns, the challenge is not to leave Christmas behind with the decorations, but to carry its values forward.
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It is a joy-sapping reality that had never been felt before, as far as I know. It leaves us stunned, weighed down by a sense of betrayal so deep we can hardly…
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Christmas offers a reminder to the legal profession that technical correctness should not eclipse justice.
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A heart filled with love for God and our fellow human beings is the birthday gift which Jesus really wants from us.
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Christmas, beyond the glitter, traditions and rituals, can be seen symbolically as the bringing in of the Christ Light — the way the Baby Jesus came into the…
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Bondi was never a place of deep personal memory; I was there for barely an hour. But it lodged itself in my imagination as a space of order and ease.
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