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A lot of things has been emerging around the world today. Everybody knows 2012 is bringing something… to some it can be cataclysmic to others it will be glorious.
With the rise of the information technology….. you get different views from differen…
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Mark 3: 13-19 1 Sm 24:3-21/ Psa 57 He appointed twelve that they might be with Him and that He might send them out to preach and to have authority to drive out demons. (Mark 3:14) Our Lord chose His twelve apostles As the Church’s first community; We…
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Mark 1: 29-39 1Sm 3:1-10,19-20 / Ps 40 Rising very early before dawn, Jesus went off to a deserted place to pray. (Mark 1:35) We always rush, we have no time, So much in mind of work to do; Lest we forget things more sublime, What if in turn, God forge…
John 1:1-18 1Jn 2:18-21 / Psa 96 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. (John 1:1-2) John talks about the Beginning, We wonder as the year’s end is here: What will the new yea…
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Dearest Family and Friends,
As most of you are aware by now, it’s all over social network (facebook, blogs and twitter) about CDO and Iligan and Typhoon Sendong.
A group of my friends have organized something in facebook to gather all donations.
As o…
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Ever since, I started to continue my journey with a group of like minded individuals from MISSION (http://imaginalmission.net) last July, things started to propel faster than I expected. And it’s not just wishful thinking, but it’s a walk, a…
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I have not been watching the “TV” for months now… and I was away the humdrum of emails the past week.
However, yesterday when I checked my email… I found messages about the “Occupy Wall Street” Movement. And I am beginning to understand why I’m se…
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It is one of the most diverse marine ecosystems in the world and thus has been identified by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) as one of the priority areas within the Coral Triangle. It is the Davao Gulf — a 308,000-hectare body of water surrounded by Davao City, the 3 Davao provinces and [...]
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Hulloh! How is everybody doing?
I’ve noticed that it seems like I am making a career out of posting a blogpost once a month!
My days are sometimes swarmed with activities that sometimes I just wanna head off the beach and go enjoy the waves while…
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The Kadayawan sa Dabaw festival logo shown here is a let-down — to say the least — for about 300 respondents who answered a survey I ran via the Kadayawan Festival facebook page from last week. (Click here to see the poll — and feel free to chime in.) I held off writing about it [...]
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Matthew 12: 46-50 Ex 14:21–15:1 / Ex 15:8-17 Whoever does the will of my heavenly Father is my brother, and sister, and mother. (Matthew 12:50) To be Christ’s brother or sister, This we must follow willingly – God’s will: to love one another,…
What started off as a reluctant choice to join LEAP turned out to be one of the greatest choice I’ve ever made.I just graduated under the rain and wind of the storm Falcon, even threatening our graduation to be called off, but nevertheless it pushed th…
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Yesterday was Blog Action Day to Save Philippine Seas, an Internet-wide activity that galvanized local and foreign netizens into a concerted call for marine environment protection. Coincidentally, it was also World Oceans Day. As my contribution, I wrote about Davao Gulf yesterday here and over at my personal blog. I’ve mentioned that there are individuals [...]
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John 16: 16-20 Acts 18: 1-8 / Psa 98 I tell you the truth, you will weep and mourn while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy. (John 16:20) This life is merely passing by, All things corrupt time will destroy; Our hope i…
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John 15: 12-17 Acts 15:22-31 / Psa 57 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last… (John 15:16) Whatever we ask in Jesus’ name, He promised God our Father will give, As lon…
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John 14: 7-14 Acts 13:44-52 / Psa 98 Have I been with you all this time, Philip, and you still do not know me? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. (John 14:9) How much time have I sacrificed To know Him and be satisfied? Who is this Jesus crucifie…
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John 10: 22-30 Acts 11:19-26 / Psa 87 …you do not believe because you are not my sheep. My sheep hear my voice; I know them, and they follow me. (John 10: 26-27) We are the flock He has gathered Who have heard His call and have come; Never again …
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John 6:22-29 Acts 6:8-15 / Ps 119 Do not work for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you, for on Him the Father, God, has set His seal. (John 6: 27) Not on the food of this world b…
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Press Statement – 27 April 2011 Philippine Eagle Foundation Four Eagles in Five Months:A Statement of Alarm Over the Rate of Eagle Retrievals The Philippine Eagle Foundation (PEF) expresses alarm over the spate of captures of Philippine Eagles in the last five months. The PEF team has retrieved four Philippine Eagles since December 2010, making [...]
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In 1992, after four years in Manila, I returned to Davao with a renewed appreciation for my hometown. One of the first things I got myself into was an outdoors club that was also a forum for instilling in young people’s minds a love for everything Davao. In the Sandawa Apo Mountaineering Club I met [...]
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Luke 11: 14-23 Jer 7: 23-28/ Ps 95: 1-2. 6-7. 8-9 Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters. (Luke 11:23) Our God Almighty does not reign Over a divided kingdom; All divisions in His domain His Word and love sha…
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Friends of Mindanao is a group of foreigners and their wives/partners, based in Davao City. They meet socially in each other’s homes and in local restaurants. They also organize group trips to explore other parts of Mindanao. On the first and third Wednesday of each month they meet as a larger group to exchange news [...]
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Yesterday, the world’s attention was on Japan, upon the disaster wreaked by a magnitude 8.9 temblor that ruptured off the northeastern coast of Honshu island, and by the resultant tsunami that inundated Sendai and other parts of the archipelago. The latter, the mega-tsunami, caused more devastation than what brought it on. The Japanese call it [...]
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