This New Year 2015 The theft occurred in June 2010, and everybody knows that it is not so good there in Region 8. With the Pope’s visit in January 2015, won’t the Catholic Church spearhead the image’s recovery?
Month: December 2014
Rated 8 is The New Year
The year 2015 is an 8 Year, namely 2+0+1+5 = 8. The number eight is the infinity symbol. Number 8 resonates with the influences and vibrations of authority and personal power, self-confidence, executive ability, confidence, inner-strength, professionalism and the professional, management, material freedom, success, good judgement, money, finances, riches, manifesting wealth, abundance and prosperity, provision,…
Apparitions?
As you know, Guinarona has had the San Pascual Baylon body relic since May 15, 2013 when it was installed. Because Spain’s Basilica San Pascual Baylon appreciated Guinarona’s loss of the original San Pascual image in June 2010, which has not been recovered to-date, the nuns of the Basilica graciously sent in the body relic…
Of Typhoons and Leaders: A Repost
By Kit Belmonte A wise man told me that Filipinos gravitate towards three kinds of leaders – the populist man of the people, the vigilante hero, and the problem solver. Of the three, he says, it is the populist who gets the most support. In the minds of the people, he embodies their needs and…
The Filipino at His Worst
“Ridicule is a common feature of the Filipino character. It is an element of “amoral interdependence”, or the crablike way Filipinos deride others to raise themselves up. It starts in elementary school, which you can witness when you see kids laughing at their schoolmates who hurt themselves or otherwise mess up. It is devoid of…
Death at Christmas: A Guinarona Story
It’s now 44 years since Papa died on December 24, 1970 at 1 p.m. to be exact. And it was a traumatic and horrible Christmas for us. Guinarona then had just become a newly minted parish, and we organized a youth choir to assist in the series of dawn masses, culminating in the Midnight Christmas…
Of Great Typhoons
Typhoons are beings of the air element; they are so much alive just like you and me. They too are composed of molecules and atoms. But they are bigger than life, and they have god-like powers. Man is always at their mercy and never conversely. There is a theory nowadays that super typhoons are creations…
Linubihan as Christmas Treat
Linubihan is THE food for the gods. It is a Leyte delicacy, so named because Lubi or coconut is one of its major components. Can you commercialize Linubihan? If you can put a price tag to your labor of love–to your soul–then go ahead. Guinarona, with its world-class irrigation system, is a major rice producer…
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