The Fall of a Prince – Bishop Crisostomo Yalung
Before the fall from grace, Bishop Crisostomo Yalung was a rising star, an apple to the eye of the then Bishop Cardinal Sin and a promising successor to the highest Catholic authority in the Philippines. He and Bishop Theodoro Bacani were juggling the prestige under the glow of Cardinal Sin. In fact, Yalung is the […]
Musings On Self and Love: Selflessness Is Love’s Manifold Greatness
When we talk about love, there will always be this stern stewing of indescribable bliss that sweeps away the mind. On great heights, it hurls us like a drug yet tactfully keeping our sinews in the slumber of sweet and heavenly delight. It entices us to see beauty, and everything is made thoughtful and gleeful. […]
Life as a Pencil – Reflection and Aphorism
Minutes after deep thought looking bluntly on my pen, I wrote: When growths finally shrink into the last hue of gloomy carbon shade; and heartily embrace the thrust pushing and turning into the sharpener’s razor-like edges, recollective parables sink into my mind, the pencil story (see P. Hudson, 2020; P. Cuelho, 2009; B. Davis 2005). […]
The Beauty of Human Existence
In a world, wherein you can’t personally be born, you tremble in fear even in the thoughts of leaving everything behind. Nature has only given you a single lifetime. And added to that, that single and individual lifetime’s lifespan is inevitably ambivalent. You are always clueless when it is going to end. In the lofty […]
6 Spiritual Stages of Awakening – A Personal Reflection
“It would take a hundred million reincarnations or life times just to reach this stage. It is the authentic clairvoyance, which is the clarity of purpose finding out the very reason why we need to be born in this life over and over again…” 1. Chaos Or spontaneous awakening: like in my case, I awoke […]
Top 10 Filipino Catholic Bishops and Their Scandals
You might be familiar with some Biblical catchwords such as “whitewashed tombs”, “brood of vipers”, “you hypocrites” and so on. Well, these berating metaphorical call outs are touted for priests, pharisees and rabbi especially during the time of Jesus Christ. Because Jesus himself sees that these church high rollers don’t live up to what they […]
Malacañang Diocese: What is it all about?
The Malacañang Palace is the seat of power for the President of the Philippines. But sometimes that seat gets too soaked in murky waters of politics that soon it gathers mosses and barnacles in it. The Malacañang “Diocese” got it’s moniker during the tutelage of the 14th President of Philippines, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. And everything is […]
The Allegory Of The Cave And The Search For Truth
The Allegory Of The Cave by Plato can be subjected to various interpretations – and you can be right or wrong with your interpretation. But mostly, you can be right. Plato did not give any parameters on what exactly are the guidelines in interpreting his allegory. That’s why it is called an allegory – a […]
Sid’s Advice On How To Overcome suffering
You read this because just like anybody else, you do have suffering in some parts of your life. Guess what – an unpayable debt, physical ailments, abusive relationship, emotional conundrum, family problems, other financial issues – isn’t’ it? You know, suffering is one reality of life that seems to disillusion us from living the life […]
Morality – Religion or Reason?
We were always taught that morality is always sanctioned by religion. In other words, religious institutions manufacture religious scruples. And religious holy rollers, preachers, priests, pastors were the peddlers of morality under the commissioning of the institution and under the grand imperative of God. Keep reading and we will know if Morality really depends on […]
