Fr. Emeterio Barcelon, SJ VOICE FROM THE SOUTH The telling of our sins to a priest is the sacrament of confession. God can forgive us anytime He wants. However, He promised that whatever is retained here is retained in heaven. Whatever is forgiven here by a priest is forgiven in heaven. This...
Fr. Emeterio Barcelon, SJ VOICE FROM THE SOUTH The Holy Bible is the word of God speaking to us. It is not one book but a whole library of books. There are two main parts the Old Testament and the New Testament.  For Christians, the Old Testament was the preparation for the coming of the...
VOICE FROM THE SOUTH Fr. Emeterio Barcelon, SJ This is the prayer to which the Popes and everyone else attribute the victory at Lepanto. It is a wonderful prayer. Pope Benedict 16th said it was a prayer he loved. It consists of praying one hundred and fifty Hail Mary’s. It was a substitute for...
VOICE FROM THE SOUTH Fr. Emeterio Barcelon, SJ Many faithful rue that they cannot attend Mass because of the pandemic. Sometimes we take for granted what we had on a regular weekly basis. With the pandemic, we have been deprived of the greatest of gifts. During the first century, the normal Jew...
VOICE FROM THE SOUTH FR. EMETERIO BARCELON, SJ This is the feast of Our Lady which celebrates her going to heaven without going through death and decay of her body. Her body was assumed into heaven without going through death. Of all the women of the world she was chosen to be the mother of the...
VOICE FROM THE SOUTH We still have to talk about COVID-19. It is a virus and we have never been able to make a virus go away as Mr. Trump says. We have been stymied by viruses. Other germs we have been able to shoo away or conquered but not viruses. We have a number of viruses from bubonic plague...
VOICE FROM THE SOUTH It is reasonable to believe that this pandemic will last till the end of 2021. We would wish it were shorter than that. We have to plan and prepare for provisions as to what we will eat and...
VOICE FROM THE SOUTH We are celebrating the death anniversary of Fr. Peypoch today July22. (Yesterday it was of Padre Pedro Poveda. Both of them, just because they were priests,...
VOICE FROM THE SOUTH Some Philippine Province Jesuits have colourful backgrounds. One of them was Victoriano Pascual, a Spaniard who was of the short and swarthy kind. He first came to the Philippines in the late eighteen hundreds as a sergeant in the Spanish Army. He was a seminarian but at that...
VOICE FROM THE SOUTH This coronavirus has wrecked havoc on the world. It started at the beginning of the year but what concerns us more is: when will it end? There is real concern that it will not end giving us trouble earlier than 2022. That is a real disaster.  We have the consolation that...
VOICE FROM THE SOUTH President Trump gave an excellent speech for the Fourth of July celebration this year. And it is hard to believe after mouthing all the good things that George Washington and Abraham Lincoln said about the equality of all men, he would put in jeopardy the lives of millions...
VOICE FROM THE SOUTH President Trump was the right man at the right time. The electorate of the US were hoping for change because of the stagnation of income of the middle class. The upper classes were...
