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Fr. Alfonso A. Araceli, SVD For those belonging to my generation, it is easy to define love because of the tool we used to have then – the slum book.  Already considered to be a thing of the past, the millennials and Generation Z may just inquire from their elders in the family, what this sort...

Fr. Alfonso A. Araceli, SVD Do we ever remember the time we were baptized?  The expected answer to this perhaps is no, for we were baptized when we were babies as practiced in the Catholic Church. Only pictures and documents serve as proofs that there really was a baptism that happened when we...

Fr. Alfonso A. Araceli SVD One of the most iconic images attached to the Christmas season is the Santa Claus.  A child’s mind is fascinated with a big bearded man wearing a glowing red attire and carrying on his back a sack filled with various gifts.  Tradition puts it that every good child...

Fr. Alfonso A. Araceli, SVD Bringing deceased loved ones to their final resting place has now diversified into various means.  Gone are the days when the family of the deceased had no choice but to bury their dead in its entirety in a private memorial park or a public cemetery.  With the passing...