Celebrating arts month in the most interesting of times QUEEN OF ARTS NAM 2021 officially opened with a short program involving arts ambassador Catriona Gray, NCCA chairman Nick Lizaso, and other NCCA executives at the Metropolitan Theater British philosopher Bertrand Russell once said that...
BRAVE CF fighter Rolando Dy Bahrain-based promotion BRAVE Combat Federation was recognized as Global Promotion of the Year following a successful 2020 stint amid the coronavirus pandemic. FightBook MMA handed BRAVE CF the top plum for the fourth straight year during the 6th FightBook MMA Awards....
THROUGH UNTRUE Fr. Rolando V. dela Rosa, O.P. Last week, a friend told me: "I don't know what's happening to me. I’m constantly stressed and always tempted to be angry. Before the pandemic, I knew exactly who I was. But now, I'm turning into someone I don't want to be." When I told him I...
THROUGH UNTRUE Fr. Rolando V. dela Rosa, O.P. The gospel reading today narrates that when Jesus called His first apostles, they left everything to follow Him. Discipleship seems very easy, like a walk in the park, but is it? Responding to God's call always entails suffering. And perhaps, the...
Filipino fighter Rolando Dy signed on Wednesday an exclusive and fresh three-year contract with Bahrain-based promotion BRAVE Combat Federation. With the new contract, Dy, who was named 2020 Fighter of the Year by BRAVE CF , is guaranteed to have five bouts for the next three years. “This...
THROUGH UNTRUE Fr. Rolando V. dela Rosa, O.P. A recent SWS survey shows that 91 percent of Filipinos welcome the year 2021 with great hope for the future. I am tempted to ask: "How will this hope come true?" The media bombard us daily with news about muggings, kidnappings, robberies, rapes,...
THROUGH UNTRUE Fr. Rolando V. dela Rosa, O.P. Two days ago, we celebrated Christmas. If preparing for it was tiring, the post-Christmas days are even more exhausting – cleaning the mess after the visitors have left, looking for ways to settle the unpaid bills, calming frayed nerves due to lack of...
Photos from BRAVE CF Filipino slugger Rolando Dy was named Fighter of the Year by the BRAVE Combat Federation after an impressive showing in the lightweight division. Dy, the son of boxing icon and former world champion Rolando Navarrete, took home two decisive wins this year after scaling up from...
THROUGH UNTRUE Fr. Rolando V. dela Rosa, O.P. In English, it is all right to say: apple, pear, or grape. It is also correct to say in Spanish: manzana, pera, uva . But if you notice, our Filipino names for these fruits always appear in the plural form: mansanas, peras, ubas . I'm sure you haven't...
THROUGH UNTRUE Fr. Rolando V. dela Rosa, O.P. There should be a law banning the use of Christian words to name commercial products. When Christian words are used for marketing purposes, they lose their original meaning. The power and influence of the realities they symbolize are diminished. For...
THROUGH UNTRUE Fr. Rolando V. dela Rosa, O.P. Many men subscribe to an extreme notion of masculinity that emphasizes aggression, brute power, and machismo. They project themselves as brave men who don't cry, don't run from a fight, and can instill fear in others by an implicit threat of violence....
THROUGH UNTRUE Fr. Rolando V. dela Rosa, O.P. The pandemic has made the Internet an indispensable source of spiritual nourishment of believers. The sad thing is, although online worship cannot fully manifest the incarnational reality of the Mass and the sacraments, many Catholics have grown content...
