By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo I MEAN, your garden, your personal planned space for the cultivation of plants including other forms of nature. What happens, after you’re gone? At Teachers Village where our family stayed for more than ten years at an 800 square meters of vacant space, I had…
By Farah G. Decano “FILIPINOS do not yield.” I stand with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. as regards his position regarding the West Philippine Sea dispute. He does not appear to be China’s lap dog. While the Asian giant seems to be flexing its power over our relatively puny country,…
Recruitment ongoing?
By Eva C. Visperas WHERE could we go for our annual Visita Iglesia? That was the question lingering in my mind last week, just two days before Maundy Thursday. We’ve explored many churches in Pangasinan for our pilgrimage over the years, spanning from east to west, and even going…
Serene Visita Iglesia experience
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. I WAS not stunned but felt so sad when I learned from somebody last March 3 that my former cycling teammate, my town mate and most of all my cumpadre, the well-known Pangasinan cycling legend Cesar Catambay just passed away. I was not so…
Goodbye Pangasinan cycling legend, Cesar Catambay
By Rex Catubig SHE is known as a shrewd businesswoman, a smart entrepreneur, an astute politician, a public servant nonpareil. But behind all this, is a facet rarely seen, thus, unappreciated. She hardly stays put in City Hall. Because the city is her office. And she’s always on the…
POV: Seeking Mayor Belen
By Ermin Garcia Jr. WE were taught way, way back that observance of Holy Week is a period of deprivation, to cleanse ourselves of sins and wickedness while recalling how and why Jesus Christ (JC) died on the cross for us. It calls for fasting and abstinence… and personal…
Time to bond with JC
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo IN the beginning, we walked together, some walking ahead, some taking time for conversations. Sundays were intended for bonding with family members, those who live in the Philippines, with the exception of Lydia, who was busy with her grandchildren, the renovation of her house, or…
Family
By Gonzalo Duque PALM Sunday is the day when Catholics go to mass and bring with them fronds of coconut or palm tree inside the church and ask the priest to bless these in observance of the old tradition centuries back. This tradition reenacts the triumphal entry into Jerusalem…
Palm Sunday today
By Leonardo Micua AS the Catholic world observes the Lenten Season, capped by the Holy Week marking the martyrdom of Jesus of Nazareth, the whole world is teetering on the brink of a catastrophic war that could likely end mankind. Methinks that if World War III happens, the Philippines is likely…
Catastrophic war
By Farah G. Decano WHEN Jesus Christ asked what the blind man needed, the latter knelt down and exclaimed, “Domine, Ut Videam!” The blind man was actually blessed with a vision that others with good eyes did not have. He knew his inadequacy and prayed for the fulfilment of…