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The Hajj: A moving spiritual experience
UNTIL the Prophet Muhammad was ordered by the angel Gabriel 13 centuries ago to recite the first series of what eventually became the Qu’ran, the Arabs were mostly polytheists, worshipping tribal deities. They had no sacred history linking them to a universal god like other Middle Eastern peoples, no sacred text to live by, and no sacred language.
‘Give them cake!’
AN editorial cartoon in the daily Business Mirror showed a band of starving beggars outside the car of a woman telling the driver beside her, "Give them rice and noodles!" This surely recalled the famous remark of Marie Antoinette (when told that the French peasantry needed bread), "Let them eat cake!"
Another ultimatum
HE will not join the opposition, his support for President Arroyo is not unconditional but accidental, subject to the national interest and dependent on her stepping down and running in the 2007 parliamentary election.
Justice Cecilia Muñoz Palma: Goodbye to a great lady
(Eulogy delivered at necrological rites at Mt. Carmel Church, Quezon City, January 9, 2006.)
A servant leader in every way
(Eulogy delivered at necrological rites at Mt. Carmel Church, Quezon City, January 9, 2006.)
An authentic & universal heroine
(Necrological speech at Mt. Carmel Church January 6, 2006)
Honor and heroism
LAST week (Jan. 2, 2006), coming from Honolulu, my Continental flight pilot announced a few minutes before arriving in Guam that our plane would be doused with water (through a water cannon gun salute) upon touchdown by Guam firefighters in honor of a fallen American soldier who died in Iraq and whose remains formed part of the plane’s cargo. For a moment, I noticed many passengers offering prayers for the hero in our midst.
Seasonal Christians
THERE’S an amusing story about three priest-friends – a Franciscan, a Jesuit, and an SVD missionary – who paid homage to the Christ Child in Bethlehem. The Franciscan was interested in the manger to serve as tangible reminder of poverty which his religious order embraced.
The cure of Simon’s mother-in-law
ON leaving the synagogue Jesus entered the house of Simon and Andrew with James and John. Simon’s mother-in-law lay sick with a fever. They immediately told Him about her. He approached, grasped her hand, and helped her up. Then the fever left her and she waited on them.
Polanski’s art questioned by MTRCB?
IT is all right that the language of the law is harsh and sounds unforgiving, but when some government functionaries use it with severe and vindictive undertones, it becomes almost like a moral deterioration.
FVR’s ‘better solution’
WHETHER or not the one-year deadline for court trial of the four US Marines, accused of rape in Subic, is covered due to delay of the trial hearings caused by nonappearance of the respondents DEPENDS on when the Department of Justice, having determined probable cause, filed an information in court to indict those marines, and obtained warrants of arrest from the court against the accused to cause them to appear in court so as to proceed with the hearings. With the warrants and arrest of the accused, the trial hearing could and should have begun and beat the one-year deadline. But the deadline should have no effect if the delay is caused by the appeal filed by the respondents themselves challenging the existence of probable cause that has not yet been resolved positively and the indictment not filed in court nor the warrants issued.
Acute pancreatitis
IN this infrequent disease, the pancreas suddenly becomes inflamed. The pancreas is a cone-shaped gland about 5 inches long that lies crosswise just behind your stomach. The pancreas has two major functions: To secrete fluid containing digestive enzymes into the duodenum (the first portion of the small intestine) and to secrete the hormones insulin and glucagon, which are needed in regulating the level of glucose in your blood.
Justice Cecilia Muñoz Palma advocate of peace & social justice
YESTERDAY, the nation buried a great lady. We are privileged to have had her in our midst during turbulent times – the political turmoils which accompanied the change in government during Edsa 1 and 2 and in recent times when the country was again at the crossroads. The few statements she had made before she passed away showed her unwavering conviction towards Constitutional processes and the protection of people’s rights, especially their authentic participation in governance.
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