10.31.24HolidaysSpirituality Holiness Is Possible: Answering the Call With Faith, Hope and Prayer Reflecting on All Saints' Day, I remember a past experience when I was abroad, where I had the opportunity to...
10.06.24HappinessSpirituality How the Daily Holy Rosary Draws us Closer to God and Deepens our Faith Today, October 7th, we come together to honor the Blessed Mother under her revered title, Our Lady of the Hol...
09.08.24BirthdaysSpirituality Guided by Grace: Remembering the Power of the Litany on Mama Mary's Birtday Our Blessed Mother holds an essential and loving role in our spiritual journey, especially in guiding us clos...
03.27.24Feature ArticlesSpirituality Musings on Holy Wednesday: Embrace the Love of Forgiveness and Guard Against Kiss of Betrayal A passage taken from the Gospel reading today states that one of the twelve Apostles, who was called Judas Is...
03.20.24Feature ArticlesSpirituality Faith Amidst Peril: Honoring the New Martyrs Courageously Spreading the Good News This blog is in consonance with Pope Francis prayer intention for this month of March 2024 specifically for ...
02.29.24Daily RoutineSpirituality A Guide For the Youth During Lent and Beyond: "Baby Steps" Towards Holiness As Holy Week is few weeks from now, there is still enough time to avail of some precious opportunity to refl...
11.03.23Feature ArticlesSpirituality Understanding the Catholic Doctrine About the After Life Realm: The Importance of Prayer For the Souls in Purgatory For us Catholics, we are taught that the Church comprises three segments: a) The Church Militant, consisti...
10.07.23Feature ArticlesSpirituality Embrace the Power of the Holy Rosary: MUTC's Unsolicited Advice To The Youth For Catholics, the month of October has been dedicated to the Holy Rosary, particularly today (7th of October...
09.29.23FriendshipSpirituality Guardians and Protectors of the Faith: Archangels and Guardian Angels On 29th of September, the Catholic world commemorates the feast day of the 3 principal Archangels, namely: S...
09.23.23EnvironmentFeature Articles Sowing the Seed of Desperation: Lessons from the Parable of the Sower While pondering the Parable of the Sower from the Book of St. Matthew, I was particularly struck by the profo...
09.17.23Feature ArticlesHappiness Forgiveness as Strength: Anna's Inspiring Journey to Healing In the Gospel today of St. Matthew, Jesus is telling us that there is a transformative power of forgiveness, ...
09.14.23Feature ArticlesSpirituality Honoring the Holy Cross: A Reminder of God's Love, Sacrifice and Victory The Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross which falls today (14th of September) is one of the feast days ...
09.08.23BirthdaysSpirituality Celebrating Mama Mary's Birthday: A Thoughtful Journey into Faith and Love For us Catholics, the 'BER' months bring even more reasons to celebrate, as they mark the observance of some ...
09.01.23HolidaysSpirituality The "Ber" Months Spiritual Significance: Preparing Our Hearts For The Season of Giving This blog shall attempt to discuss (from a layman’s point of view) the significance of the Ber months and ...
07.18.23Feature ArticlesSpirituality Musings on the Eucharistic Life: Placing the Eucharist At the Heart of One’s Life Journey For this month of July, Pope Francis shares his prayer intentions, guiding the faithful towards meaningful sp...
06.04.23BeautySpirituality The Beauty of the Blessed Trinity: A Mystery to be Lived and Celebrated During my early years of learning on some of the basic catechism of the Catholic Church, particularly on the ...
05.13.23Feature ArticlesSpirituality A Reflection For the Month of May: Inviting the Blessed Virgin Mary Into Our Hearts, Homes and Families The month of May holds special significance for Catholics, as it is dedicated to honoring the Blessed Virgin ...
04.08.23Spirituality Musings on Easter Season: Reawakening Our Faith and Keeping the Spirit Alive After a period of silence and reflection during the Lenten season, it is now time to celebrate the great joy ...
03.05.23Feature ArticlesSpirituality Musings on Benefits of Prayer, Repentance and Forgiveness: A Lenten Reflection As followers of Jesus Christ, it is important that we strive to be spiritually healthy not only during the se...
02.21.23LoveSpirituality Musings on Love and Lent: A Gift and A Sacrifice Just like in previous years, Valentine's Day and Ash Wednesday (which kicks-off the season of Lent) fall duri...
12.03.22Politics and OpinionsSpirituality The Essence of Advent: Forging A Right Path for God's Coming For us Christians, we consider Christmas as the wonderful time of the year as we commemorate the birth of our...
11.21.22LoveSpirituality Giving Our All: Lessons Learned from the Poor Widow's Offering Who among us these days would put all our money from our own pockets/wallets into the collection baskets as p...
11.01.22Feature ArticlesSpirituality Who Are the Saints-in-Making?: Are You One of Them? Who do you think are the saints-in-making? Would they be the living (those who are still on earth doing extra...
10.23.22FriendshipSpirituality The Golden Rule for Praying: Follow the Rule and Be Blessed While I was drafting this article, I received a message from a friend requesting me to pray for her as she ne...
09.25.22Politics and OpinionsSpirituality Rich Man, Poor Man: A Wake Up Call For Everyone! The parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus is not new to us. We have been hearing this, at least once a year, ba...
09.15.22LoveSpirituality The Sorrowful Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary: A Brief Musing Yesterday we celebrated the Exaltation of the Most Holy Cross while today we are commemorating the Memorial o...
08.31.22Feature ArticlesSpirituality Musings on God's Do's and Don'ts of Attending/Hosting Banquets: Humility is Key Before the month of August ends, it would be good to know that many of the readings for this month delve on t...
08.27.22EmploymentSpirituality Accounting of "Talents" In an office setting, each employee is given certain duties and responsibilities by their employers based on ...
08.22.22Feature ArticlesSpirituality The Glorious Assumption and Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary: Its Relevance The months of May and October are usually regarded as the Marian months. However, the month of August has two...
06.19.22FamilySpirituality Eucharist And Family - The Real Deals: One Bread, One Body, One Cup of Blessing I was waiting for a friend in one of the mall restaurants when my attention wandered again and again to a tab...
06.12.22Feature ArticlesSpirituality Musings On One God, Three Persons: Our Faith and the Mystery of the Blessed Trinity With the little knowledge acquired from my mother and a catechist in school about the Holy Trinity (whose Sol...
05.29.22Politics and OpinionsSpirituality Responding The Call To Obedience: Its Beauty and Rewards While the entire month of May is dedicated to the Blessed Mother, it is still however under the Easter seaso...
04.24.22Feature ArticlesSpirituality The Suffering Souls On The Feast of the Divine Mercy: How To Be Of Help To Them? Nowadays, we almost celebrate everything for everyone. We have Mother's Day, Father's Day, Grandmother's Day, ...
04.16.22Feature ArticlesSpirituality The Relevance and Rewards of Easter Season: We Are An Easter People! The season of Easter in our Church calendar does not only involve Easter Vigil and Easter Sunday (some of us ...
04.14.22Feature ArticlesLove The Washing of The Apostles' Feet: Holy Thursday Reflection Today is the time wherein the feet of many of our Christian brothers throughout the world are being washed by ...
12.19.21Feature ArticlesSpirituality A Catechist Journey: A Joyful Advent Experience Each month, Pope Francis through the Pope's Worldwide Prayer Network consistently appeals to the people parti...
12.11.21HolidaysSpirituality How To Get Ready For The Lord's Coming: The Treasure of Advent and Christmas In certain life's situations, particularly in dealing with problem encounters, we often pause for a while to ...
11.02.21BeautySpirituality Do We Believe In Purgatory?: Its Beauty, Hope and Light I recall it was a day prior to Halloween eve, the young students in my previous CCD class in NYC were surpris...
09.14.21Feature ArticlesSpirituality Why Should We Exalt The Holy Cross: Its Significance The Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross which falls today (14th of September) is one of the feast days ...
09.04.21HolidaysSpirituality Laying The Foundation: The "Ber" Months On The 2nd Year of The Pandemic The Ber Months has just officially started and the excitement for the upcoming holidays are still being felt ...
08.23.21HappinessSpirituality "Don't Work For Food That Perishes...": Challenging Words For Challenging Times Most of us basically inherited our Catholic faith from our parents who taught us the basics of our religious ...
07.17.21Feature ArticlesSpirituality The Need For A Good Shepherd In Our Faith Journey Jesus was “moved with pity for them, for they were like sheep without a shepherd (troubled and abandoned); ...
06.07.21Spirituality Musings On The Relevance of the Institution of the Eucharist: The Summary of our Faith Under the Liturgical Calendar for the month of June, there are 2 important feast days in commemoration of the...
05.22.21Choir OrganizationCommunity Development God's Gift of Love, Obedience and Friendship: Her Experience In the Philippines MUTC's good friend, Ms. Wenn, spent her vacation in the Philippines late last year, quite a long respite from...
05.05.21Community DevelopmentSpirituality Flores de Mayo/Santacruzan: Is There A Celebration In The Midst Of A Pandemic? It was a hot summer time and the kids were taking their month-long school break, so it was an opportunity for...
04.27.21Spirituality A Joyful 50-Day Period: Yes, It's Still Easter Time! Hi Guys, how did you spend your Easter days so far? Hope you are all having a blast having quality and wond...
04.04.21Feature ArticlesHappiness The Relevance of Easter: A Joyful Recollection of An Easter Sunday In non-tropical countries, Easter season occurs during springtime, the season of the year when cold days are ...
04.03.21Feature ArticlesSpirituality Honoring The Blessed Virgin Mary On Holy Saturday It will be observed that the Holy Saturday which is part of the triduum or the 3 days before the Resurrection...
04.02.21Feature ArticlesSpirituality Musings On The Beauty of Good Friday Have you ever asked yourself? What is beautiful during Good Friday? A once-upon-time friend of mine who has no...
03.13.21HappinessSpirituality The Journey of Lent: "Baby Steps" In Following Jesus Holy Week is just few days from now and we are still given the opportunity to focus and ponder on God's love ...
03.02.21Feature ArticlesSpirituality Prayerfulness: Deepening Our Relationship With God Some, if not almost all, of us have prayed to God and received an answer in return. Whether or not it is long...
02.24.21Feature ArticlesSpirituality Musings On The Temple of God: A Lenten Reflection Every time we attend the Holy Mass (in-person or virtual), we hear from the presiding priests time and again ...
02.17.21LoveSpirituality Musings on Lent: It's All About LOVE It's been over a year now since first reports of Covid-19 virus allegedly came out in Wuhan China, and became...
01.20.21Feature ArticlesSpirituality Musings On Making Room For God: A New Year's Resolution Many of us have probably pondered and attempted to plan and initiate some changes in our lives to kick off a...
01.16.21Feature ArticlesSpirituality What Do WE Bring Into The New Year (2021)? We have just crossed the doorway that leads into Year 2021! May we greet first, A HAPPY, HEALTHY and BLESSED ...
12.21.20Feature ArticlesSpirituality Musings On The Beauty of Advent And Christmas Seasons Amidst A Pandemic The Advent season of the liturgical year has started last Sunday (29th November) and it will be followed by t...
12.17.20Feature ArticlesMDG-Poverty Musings On Walking With And Helping The Poor: "Not A Fad But A Theological Requirement" MUTC just posted last month about the celebration of the World Day of the Poor, which is being done every 33r...
11.21.20Feature ArticlesSpirituality Musings On The Relevance of the Rosary For the Souls For Catholics, the month of October is dedicated to the Holy Rosary while November is devoted for the departe...
11.01.20Feature ArticlesSpirituality The Saints-in-Making Who do you think are the Saints-in-Making? Would they be the living (those who are still on earth but doing s...
10.17.20EducationFeature Articles Evangelization-A Christian Duty and Calling: The Role of Filipino Catholics It's been eight years now after the launching of the 9-year “spiritual journey” focusing on faith, evange...
09.29.20Feature ArticlesSpirituality Michael, Raphael and Gabriel: The 3 Principal Archangels In Heaven Today is the feast day of our beloved Archangels: Saints Michael, Raphael and Gabriel. Though these 3 Archang...
09.13.20Spirituality Exaltation of the Holy Cross: Its Relevance The Exaltation of the Holy Cross (which is commemorated today, every 14th of September). is one of the feast...
09.06.20Feature ArticlesSpirituality Mortification: What Is It? How Useful Is It To Us? My religion classes and spiritual meditations (with my "once upon a time" friends at the Opus Dei) taught me ...
08.29.20Feature ArticlesHealth COVID19 -A Test In Our Faith In God? Before the month of August ends, I would like to share with you some musings lingering in my head which I tho...
08.28.20Community DevelopmentEmployment Musings On Building Strong Foundation For Catholic Migrants: Inclusion Matters Moving to a new country for the first time may not be easy as it seems. One needs to adjust to the new life,...
08.23.20About My Useful TipsAnniversary Yay! At Last, New Look: Happy 10th Anniversary My Useful Tips! Gee, it's been a decade since My Useful Tips birth in New York City (NYC). Yup, My Useful Tips was planned an...
08.20.20Feature ArticlesSpirituality How Do We Respond To God's Call: Full or Lip Service? While I was about to do this write-up on the subject, I recall this very thoughtful story which I bumped into...
08.16.20Feature ArticlesSpirituality Lukewarmness: A "Wishy-Washy" Attitude Towards Faith in God I remember it was “Opus Dei” (a catholic lay and clerical organization which literally means “Work of G...
07.28.20Feature ArticlesFriendship The Wind Beneath the Priests' Wings: A Tribute (In Memoriam) Did someone ever tell you you're the “wind beneath my wings”? Said expression which happens to be the tit...
07.16.20Feature ArticlesSpirituality Reinventing the Church for the "New Normal": Effect of Covid19 Pandemic It's been about 150 days that the world has been beset by negative effects of Covid19 pandemic (more than 500...
07.12.20Community DevelopmentEnvironment Be Good Soils: The Challenge of the Sower When I opened the Bible (which I seldom do as most of the time the web is more accessible) to check on Gospel...
06.29.20Community DevelopmentHappiness Seeing God's Face In Our Neighbors - Don't Be Judgmental! Who among us have seen the face of God, I mean His real face? For sure, none of us have seen God in person. B...
06.18.20Feature ArticlesPolitics and Opinions Cardinal "Chito" Tagle-The Poor Man's Guardian: Will he be the next to wear the Shoes of the Fisherman? I recall I had the chance to contribute an article in a Filipino Catholic magazine based in NYC about the des...
04.16.17BeautyFeature Articles The Flame of God's Love-What An “Easterly”Feeling! The Easter Vigil with the blessing of the Easter Fire, Oil, Water and the Paschal Candle, gives me a strange f...
04.09.17Feature ArticlesPolitics and Opinions Palm Sunday: A Prelude To Judas' Kiss of Betrayal Today is Palm Sunday, and Christians (Catholics and non-Catholics) throughout the globe commemorate the tr...
04.06.17FamilyHappiness Faith And Family: The Joy of Love Juliet (not her real name) was a teacher in the Philippines before she decided to leave abroad for work as...
03.14.17Spirituality Living a Holy Life: A Lenten Challenge In one of my previous CCD (Catholic Christian Doctrine) classes for middle school kids, I instructed them ...
11.02.15Community DevelopmentFamily Halloween Fete Now Becoming A Norm in the Philippines! I was surprised to hear reports from tri-media particularly broadcast media, aggressively promoting Hallowee...
04.04.15Spirituality The 3 Major Characters In The Death of Jesus Christ: A Holy Week Reflection After attending the Good Friday mass at our parish, a man was standing at the back of the door and he seemed...
04.01.15Spirituality My Useful Tips Holy Week Reflection For us Christians, Lent is the time of being quiet and reflective, stepping away from the “world'” to focu...
03.17.15Community DevelopmentSpirituality My First St. Patrick's Day Event! St. Patrick is one of the saints I admire because of his courage and endurance even at a young age. According ...
02.18.15Spirituality Ash Wednesday: A Gentle Reminder/Call! Few days ago, we had Valentine's Day and this week's Wednesday is Ash Wednesday, two very important celebratio...
02.12.15LoveSpirituality "Blown Away": A Reflection on Pope Francis' Wonderful Journey To The Philippines! Many of us have probably seen , either in person or on television, some funny and happy moments of the Holy Fa...
01.12.15Politics and OpinionsSpirituality 2015: The Year of Consecrated Life and the Poor! Few days from now, Pope Francis will be in the Philippines for a five-day (January 15-19, 2014) state and apos...
01.05.15Spirituality A Happy New Year and A New Faith To All! When I was young, I have learned in my catechism classes that there are three basic tenets in our Christian li...
12.13.14Spirituality Christmas And The Holy Souls In Purgatory! Here we are again, Christmas is just just a few days away! For now, I won't delve on Christmas being the mo...
10.24.14Community DevelopmentHappiness The Battle For World Peace! I recall in our younger years, my mother who is a Marian devotee would call everyone in the family to join her...
08.29.14HappinessSpirituality Feeding The Hungry: Is It Difficult? Did you know that there are now almost a billion hungry people across the globe? The report provided by the...
06.26.14HappinessSpirituality How To Mend the Heart of A Broken Angel Angelina strove hard to mend her broken heart. In fact, she was able to compose another poem with a dozen st...
06.09.14HappinessSpirituality The Feeling of A Broken Angel: An Update About Angelina Do you still recall about the "Online Romance of Brad and Angelina". Surely, what happened to thei...
04.26.14Spirituality Double Pope Canonization: How Are Saints Helpful To Us? Since I was a child, our family normally have few statues of saints placed on our home makeshift altar, the pl...
04.19.14Spirituality The Resurrection of Christ: Its Impact On Us Easter Sunday is one of the favorite holidays not only in the United States but in other countries as well. Ho...
04.13.14Spirituality How Can Working People Make Their Holy Week Holy: Tips and Thoughts In certain places, the celebration of Holy Week is not strictly observed unless you are situated in a predom...
06.16.12Feature ArticlesSpirituality FLORES DE MAYO: A JOYFUL FESTIVITY Featured Article: By L.F-Posecion (Contributor) A centuries-0ld popular spiritual tradition, the May Flower...
03.29.11Feature ArticlesPolitics and Opinions "40 Years of Welcoming the Stranger": Catholic Migration Day-A Universal Celebration “Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me”, a famous...
02.09.11Choir OrganizationCommunity Development A Momentous and Historic Event - A Personal Reflection I thought this article would document in a way the first Filipino Mass ever performed in NY Ozone Park’s St....
06.19.10Spirituality Year for Priests - "Faithfulness of Christ, faithfulness of priests" - Tips and Thoughts Today is the culmination of the “Year for Priests” which is a once in a lifetime, one year of celebration....