Tag: January 23, 2012

UNTIL when will you be able to stick to your resolutions?

Every time New Year approaches, people become busy in formulating their resolutions at the hopes of establishing a new start, eventually shunning negative ways and means done in the past.

This tradition of writing and following resolutions serve as the common trend among people who superstitiously believe in this tradition.

But just like the old Filipino maxim ningas cogon, those who vow to keep their resolutions manage to stick to them only at the start of the year. As days pass by, they eventually find themselves breaking the resolutions they made.

Have a reachable start

WHO WOULD have thought a little canteen located across the University grounds would become the cradle of big names in the Philippine music industry?

Nearly three decades ago, Mayric’s was just a household name to students and bank employees who wanted to eat a sumptuous meal and to unwind after work—until a customer, on a whim, started to play an old keyboard left by the restaurant owner lying at the place.

That momentous instance triggered the owner to have a one-man band play on a regular basis, which was eventually replaced by emerging and mainstream Filipino acts, including Thomasian bands.

Original music

MANY Filipinos show their faith through their unwavering devotion to the Black Nazarene. Jostling for space amid the crowd of millions just to get a glimpse of the much-revered image has become a yearly sight.

Last Jan. 9, an estimated eight million devotees went to the feast of the “translation” of the Black Nazarene, whose miracles have streaked across time and space, people, and age.

There are myriad reasons why Filipinos keep their faith on the image, and Msgr. Jose Ignacio, parish priest of St. John the Baptist Church (commonly known as Minor Basilica of Jesus the Black Nazarene) enumerated some of these.

AMID renewed attention on the liturgy in the Church, the Dominican Order has published its own missal, incorporating the feasts of recently beatified and canonized members of the order.

The Dominican Missal and Lectionary, follows new English translation of the Roman Missal, which will be used by Philippine dioceses starting Advent 2012.

The liturgical book for local Churches and religious orders was released at the Institute of Preaching-Philippine Dominican Center of Institution Studies in Sto. Domingo Church, Quezon City last Dec. 8.

THE BISHOPS’ move to protect American clergymen involved in sexual misconduct is not meant to conceal the truth, but to abide by the norms of the sacraments, an expert on Canon Law said.

Fr. Jaime Achacoso, executive secretary of the Episcopal Commission on Canon Law, said the reason for the “secrecy” in the Boston scandal in 2002 lies in the Sacrament of Confession, where the offenses of the penitent must not be disclosed.

ISANG mahalagang salik sa pag-unlad ng bansa ay ang pag-aaral ng sariling wika. Ito rin ay mahalaga para sa isang Unibersidad upang mapanatili ang pagpapayabong ng wikang Filipino sa loob ng mga akademikong institusyon. Ngunit paano kung kakaunti na lamang ang kumukuha at mismong nagbibigay ng kursong ito?

“Hindi kasi earning major ang Filipino, hindi katulad ng ibang major – sabihin [na] nating Science, Math, at English,” ani Beatriz Ribleza, guro ng Filipino sa College of Education.

Ito ang isa sa mga nakikitang dahilan ni Ribleza kung bakit unti-unting nawawala ang mga may interes na mag-major sa Filipino (BSE Filipino)—ang kawalan ng sapat na bilang ng mga mag-aaral sa isang kurso ang nagiging sanhi ng pagkatanggal nito.

ROMANCE, comedy, horror, at fantasy sa iisang libro ng mga maiikling kuwento.

Sa kaniyang ikaapat na aklat na “Wag Lang ‘Di Makaraos: Mga Kuwentong Pasaway, Paaway, at Pamatay,” (Visprint, Inc., 2011) pinasok ni Eros Atalia ang isang panibagong mundo na malayo sa kaniyang naunang tatlong libro na pawang mga nobela.

Ang “‘Wag Lang ‘Di Makaraos” ay binubuo ng 100 dagli (“flash writing”)na nahahati sa sampung mga kategorya. Ang dagli ay isang uri ng pampanitikang Filipino na naglalarawan ng bagay, tao, o pangyayari sa maikling paraan at karaniwang ginagamitan ng talinghaga, siste, o satira. Mayroong iba’t ibang tema ang bawat kategorya gaya ng kababalaghan, pag-ibig, at pagtanda.

SAAN nga ba nagmula ang bantog na rebulto ni Miguel de Benavides?

Nag-uugat ang kasaysayan ng monumentong ito ni Benavides noong ika-17 na siglo, kung kailan binalak ng mga Dominikano na gawing sementeryo ng orden at hardin ang bakanteng lote na noo’y hindi pa parte ng Unibersidad.

“Dahil sa balak na ito ng mga Dominikano, binili nila itong maliit na lupang ito noong 1627 hanggang sa binili rin nila ang isa pang lupa noong 1708 sa gilid ng gusali ng Colegio de Santa Rosa,” ani Jose Victor Torres, isang Tomasinong historyador at manunulat.