By Walter Villagonzalo
Many of the 60,000 Filipinos in Victoria belong to the more than 100 religious, geographical, sports, common interests and business organisations that...
By Erick Paul Estepa Elefante
In the Philippines' inaugural appearance at the Cabramatta International 9s in 2012, the country heralded its membership of the International...
My visits as a pastoral care worker, offering prayers through liturgy and music to nursing homes especially in their high care area are always fraught with mixed emotions. I am cautioned that these residents could go for hours or...
“And the angel said unto them, fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.” – LUKE 2:10
About mid-January, I put away all my Christmas décor at the garage,...
Our front yard had a row of Lilly Pilly trees. Eleven years ago, when we planted them, we delighted in their evergreen shiny foliage, the edible purple fruit enchanting us, and their density perfect as appropriate hedge.
At the start...
I will take refuge in the shadow of Your wings, until the disaster has passed O Lord. – Psalm 57:1
March 2020 seemed a normal month to me, with events for work, family and community being planned meticulously. Then like...
If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal...
“You alone are the LORD. You made the heavens, even the highest heavens, and all their starry host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You give life to everything,...
Psychoanalysis would have us believe that dreams are an access point to our unconscious. On the other hand, researchers who study sleep and dreaming have proposed that dreams are just noise, a byproduct of the firing of neural pathways...
“You touched my coffee!”, screamed one customer at a café to a young barista, who burst into tears and helplessly tried to offer a new cup to the angry woman.
We sensed they were not from our area and those...
One morning my family woke up to brown water coming from our taps.
Alarmed, I rang the emergency service of the water provider and was advised that due to an overnight repair, the pipes had a disturbance in the...
You must have heard of the truck driver who got stuck at a low bridge. He miscalculated the height of the bridge and could not go through it. Scratching his head, he was wondering what to tell the boss...