By Modesto P. Sa-onoy During the fiesta Mass in honor of San Sebastian, the patron saint of the Diocese of Bacolod on January 20, Bishop Patricio A. Buzon announced his Pastoral Letter, “Receiving and Giving: A Pastoral Letter on the Spirituality of Stewardship”. He said he had wanted this Pastoral Letter written three years ago
February 1, 2020
By Modesto P. Sa-onoy The new virus strain called “coronavirus” is giving the world another scary situation – a world-wide epidemic can break out unless governments impose strict rules to prevent its spread. Fortunately quarantine measures are working, but the virus, carried by the wind, continues to spread. The World Health Organization has considered the
January 31, 2020
By Modesto P. Sa-onoy The celebration of the feast of the Sto. Niño in Cadiz City last January 25 got unintended publicity in the social media when two people described by the press as members of the LGBT community displayed their private parts in a pole dancing gyration. The two revelers are from Silay City
January 30, 2020
By Modesto P. Sa-onoy LAST week I cited the reported statement of Lorendo Dilag, chairman of the Bacolod City Water District board of directors, that they have no fund for expansion and thus they are entering into a partnership with Prime Water that has presumably the capability to provide what the water district needs –
January 29, 2020
By Modesto P. Sa-onoy Will the threat of President Rodrigo Duterte to abrogate the Visiting Forces Agreement between the Philippines and the United States come to reality? The Philippine president does not make idle threats so that if the US failed to comply with his demand that the visa of Senator Ronald de la Rosa
January 28, 2020
By Modesto P. Sa-onoy Last week I wrote about a public rift within the Sugar Regulatory Administration when the two representatives for the producers – planters and millers – claimed that the SRA administrator, Hermenegilo Serafica had entered into an agreement with the Department of Trade and Industries that would open the door for sugar
January 27, 2020
By Modesto P. Sa-onoy I have written on this subject before to encourage Catholics to receive the Sacred Host by their tongue rather than their hand. There are now developments here in Bacolod as more people realize the risk of sacrilege when they take the Host by their hands. One priest, at least, required the
January 25, 2020
By Modesto P. Sa-onoy Last Tuesday, a friend sent a video with the song, Dalawidaw which was sung by the Madrigal Singers and a choir in Singapore. Earlier, a mother told me that her daughter in Norway also heard the song there, but it had a minor mistake in the lyrics which she immediately corrected.
January 24, 2020
By Modesto P. Sa-onoy In the middle of a calamity where thousands of people are rendered homeless with some begging for food along the highway, over-eager government bureaucrats with probably nothing better to do could think about sex as if that was a priority. They spent government money and time on how to service the couples
January 23, 2020
By Modesto P. Sa-onoy Last week Senator Cynthia Villar who heads the Senate Committee on Agriculture has hammered the nail on the Sugar Regulatory Administration when she gave the sugar agency a failing grade. That was not diplomatic of her but that was what should be said – a frank and honest assessment of the
January 22, 2020
By Modesto P. Sa-onoy The Bacolod City government has spent a lot of money to get several distinguishing titles like City of Smiles, Most Business-Friendly and Model City of the Philippines and spent some more to let the world know about these publicity images. Now, it got a new and unintended label, “shabulized area”. The
January 21, 2020
By Modesto P. Sa-onoy Today is the feast day of San Sebastian, the patron saint of the Diocese of Bacolod, the city being the seat, cathedra, of the diocese. There are other parishes and towns that have adopted San Sebastian as their patron. He is a popular saint in Spain, the reason we have so
January 20, 2020