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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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 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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I encourage everyone to pray for Tatay Digong’s safety and health. Someday, we look forward to celebrating his birthday with him in Davao City.
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President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has urged Filipinos to strengthen our national unity through faith and service as the country prepares to observe Holy Week.
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The Annunciation, the moment of the Lord’s Incarnation in the womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is celebrated nine months before his birth.
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The readings assure us that our Faith in Jesus, who is the Resurrection and the Life, promises our participation in His Resurrection and new life.
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To live as a Christian is to see and to grow continually, gaining a clearer vision about God, about ourselves, and about others.
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