“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal…
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Tag: Christmas
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be…
Lahat yata namimili na para sa Pasko.
Ganyan ang maganda sa mga Pilipino. Kahit mahirap, talagang buhay na buhay ang diwa ng Pasko.
Pilipinas yata ang may pinakamahaba na Christmas season. Pagkatapos ng All Saints at All Souls Day, simula na kaagad ang tugtug ng Jingle Bells sa mga department stores at labasan na ng mga Christmas decors sa mga bahay.
Hindi yan natatapos sa Disyembre 25 o sa New Year. Hanggang Jan.6 yan, ang Three Kings.
At siyempre kapag panahon ng Pasko, kainan. Kaliwa’t-kanan ang Christmas party. Sigurado, pagkatapos ng Pasko, magtatabaan na naman tayo. At ang cholesterol, dios mio.
Nagbigay ng paala-ala si Health Secretary Enrique Ona dahan-dahan lang sa litson at sa alak nitong Kapakuhan dahil yun ang ilang sa sanhi ng atake sa puso.
There are so many things to thank for this Christmas despite… you know what those are. Let’s celebrate the birth of our Creator, who makes…
Christmas is family affair and for Christians, whatever the nationality, we take that to heart.
But on two Christmases in the past, I found myself away from the Philippines, both in colder environments.
My first Christmas outside of the Philippines was in Hanoi, in 1984. In 1991, it was in Versailles, France,
At the end of the conference I and three other Filipinos who attended a conference in Ho Chi Minh (formerly Saigon) in the third week of December 1984, were asked if we wanted to go to Hanoi.
My other companions, from the academe and labor unions, declined the invitation, as they didn’t want to spend Christmas away from home. It’s seldom that one gets an invitation to communist Hanoi so I readily said “Yes.”