PHILIPPINE POPULATION STILL A PROBLEM

There were 92 million Filipinos officially counted by the National Statistics Office (NSO) as of 1992. Extrapolating tha , RP should have about 97-98 Million people by end of 2012 –given the 2.0% annual population growth rate. Statistical projections tell RP will have 103-Million people...

*Sifting*

By Fr. Roy Cimagala Chaplain Center for Industrial Technology and Enterprise (CITE) Talamban, Cebu City Email: roycimagala@gmail.com KNOWING that I like songs and music, some friends introduced me to two of our latest singing sensations, Adele and Bruno Mars. This development triggered in me the...

SUGBOANON BISAYA FOR SCHOOL TEACHERS – Part 4: Transmutations and Nuances

SUNDRY CHRONICLE By JES B. TIROL Proem Malipayong Pasko sa Pagkabanhaw kaninyong tanan! (Happy Easter to All!).  Here are the Sugboanon words that you ought to know: Holy Week = Balaan Nga Pitlaw; Palm Sunday = Bendita Lukáy; Holy Wednesday = Tiniblas; Maunday Thursday =...

CARVED IN STONE

by Juan L Mercado “No Visitors Allowed,” the hospital room sign read. The wife pressed me gently forward. So,we tiptoed in. Hooked to tubes, the gaunt man, on the bed, was a friend of many years. His kindnesses to me were many. After anointing, the...

EASTER AND OUR SINFULNESS

By Fr. Roy Cimagala Chaplain Center for Industrial Technology and Enterprise (CITE) Talamban, Cebu City Email: roycimagala@gmail.com FIRST of all, Happy Easter to everyone! “This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad.” Easter is indeed a very happy occasion,...

MALIPAYONG ADLAW SA PAGKABANHAW! HAPPY EASTER! 2012

A Boholano’s View by Jose “Pepe” Abueva The Bohol Chronicle – April 8, 2012 Semana Santa with our parents. I cannot remember my last Holy Week in Bohol, in 1947. It was the year I left my home province for good after graduating high school...

*The holiest of weeks*

By Fr. Roy Cimagala Chaplain Center for Industrial Technology and Enterprise (CITE) Talamban, Cebu City Email: roycimagala@gmail.com THE Holy Week is, of course, not just like any other week. It is THE week, the mother of all weeks, the most important week in the liturgical...

SUGBOANON BISAYA FOR SCHOOL TEACHERS Part 3. Phonics

SUNDRY CHRONICLE By JES B. TIROL Proem Today is Palm Sunday or Bendita Lukay in Sugboanon Bisaya. May you contemplate on the life and death of our Lord Jesus Christ using you mother language so that you can internalize your religious experience. Phonics Phonics is...

OUTGROWING THE CARNAL MAN

By Fr. Roy Cimagala Chaplain Center for Industrial Technology and Enterprise (CITE) Talamban, Cebu City Email: roycimagala@gmail.com THIS is everyone’s war, a universal struggle. We all need to overcome our carnality and sensuality to allow reason and eventually our faith to take root and dominate...

OUR CATHOLIC CHURCH ALSO NEEDS REFORM.

A Boholano’s View by Jose “Pepe” Abueva The Bohol Chronicle April 1, 2012 Reforming our State and politics. As a political science student and teacher, I have continually advocated reforms in our politics and government, citizenship and leadership. I have focused on political and governmental...