Category Reflections

fiesta

Para sa Pari Lang ang Lami?

Sa kadaghang pista nga akong naadtuan sukad sa akong pagserbisyo isip media team sa archdiocese, pipila ka mga higayon ko nakabantay og kultura nga hangtod karon nagapabilin: ang tanang lami para ra gyud sa pari. Makapahimuot ni sa unang tan-aw.…

Monasterio de Sta. Clara

Feast of St. Clare: Seeking Our Desert

August 11, the feast of St. Clare, marks four years since I first found the Monasterio de Sta. Clara in Catalunan Grande. I still remember searching on Google for a place where I could present myself as an aspirant for a contemplative community. The monastery was everything I thought I needed—solemn, quiet, rich in prayer and activity, leaving no space for idle thoughts or wrongdoing.

Confession (Photo by Josh Applegate on Unsplash)

Confessing Without Repentance

I have been pondering lately the nature of my confessions. Have they truly been acts of contrition, or have they become rituals I follow merely to be absolved—without a genuine desire to change? Some of us, if not all, may…