The United Print and Multimedia Group (UPMG) paid a courtesy call and their officers took their oath as media practitioners before Speaker of the House Rep. Martin Romualdez. Speaker Martin Romualdez (left) administers the Oath Taking of new set of officers of the United Print & Multimedia...
REFLECTIONS TODAY In the prior episode leading to today’s Gospel, a rich young man approaches Jesus and asks him, “Teacher, what good must I do to gain eternal life?” (Mt 19:16). This is the same as asking, “What good must I do to enter the Kingdom of heaven?” or “How can I be saved?”...
REFLECTIONS TODAY In his Apostolic Constitution Munificentissimus Deus (Nov. 1, 1950), Pope Pius XII declared as a divinely revealed dogma “that the Immaculate Mother of God, the ever-Virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory” (n...
After two years of lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, a simple in-person ceremony marked the 55th founding anniversary of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations at the ASEAN headquarters in Jakarta last Aug. 8. With a population of 662 million and a combined Gross Domestic Product of...
REFLECTIONS TODAY Jesus’ hyperbolic answer to Peter’s question reveals God’s attitude towards sinners. To forgive “seventy-seven times” connotes unlimited number. It runs contrary to the unlimited blood-feud retaliation in the case of Lamech who said, “If Cain is avenged seven times,...
On the 121st Police Service anniversary held at the Philippine National Police (PNP) headquarters last Aug. 8, 2022, President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. laid down his marching orders and policy guidance to the 226,000 officers, men and women of the police force, ably led by new PNP Chief Gen. Rodolfo...
REFLECTIONS TODAY The “hour” of Jesus’ impending death would also be the “hour” of his glorification; it is the ultimate manifestation of Jesus’ selfsacrificing love that would bear the fruit of redemption. For his life-giving death, Jesus uses the imagery of a single “seed” (his...
Inside the campus of the University of the Philippines Visayas (UPV) in Miagao, Iloilo, a terrestrial orchid, Habenaria gibsonii var. foetida Blatt. & McCann, thrives. Researcher Maria Celia D. Malay found the flowering Habenaria gibsonii var. foetida plants while hiking on campus. This...
Fidel Valdez Ramos was the first to be elected President of the Philippines who did not have a political background. He ran in only one election; he was elected President in 1992 over six prominent opponents by the slimmest of margins, 23.58 percent. Yet he quickly established common ground by...
Singapore is a country close to the hearts and minds of Filipinos. Filipinos love to go to Singapore for tourism, to see how its world-class infrastructure harmoniously coexists with the bounty of nature and imprints of heritage. It is also a land of opportunity for the estimated 200,000 Filipino...
REFLECTIONS TODAY Jesus journeys into the Mediterranean region of Tyre and Sidon, populated mostly by Gentiles. Perhaps his fame as a teacher and healer has preceded him, that is why a desperate Canaanite woman comes out pleading him to exorcise the demon from her daughter. Jesus shows himself...
REFLECTIONS TODAY Gospel • Matthew 14:22-36 Jesus made the disciples get into a boat and precede him to the other side of the sea, while he dismissed the crowds. After doing so, he went up on the mountain by himself to pray. When it was evening he was there alone. Meanwhile the boat, already a...
