July 29, 1982 was the day when – on a cement bench at UP Diliman’s AS Hill – i prayed that prayer that goes, “Lord Jesus, i need you.  i open the door of my life and receive You as my Savior and Lord…”  i was a freshman then and it was all so wonderfully [...]

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It never ceases to amaze me that part of my job is to tell people about Jesus – sometimes to a group as small and intimate as three, or sometimes for half an auditorium of students or sometimes for an apostolic-kind of 12.  It’s all the same to me, really.  Numbers don’t move me as [...]

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Conchita Hermosisima is my only surviving grandparent. She is 85 years old, a cancer survivor and a woman so easy to love in just a few minutes of sitting with her. She was recently confined at Veterans Memorial Hospital for diabetes, pneumonia and ulcers.  Even there, recovering from all those illnesses, she still had many [...]

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These are the people i will be journeying with this school year.  In this group there is a classical guitarist, an interior designer, an athlete, an economist and a mathematician.  There is someone from Cagayan de Oro, somene from Davao, someone from  Cebu and others from as “far” as Laguna and Bulacan.  For the next [...]

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