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From doll to icon

By Fr. Roy Cimagala | January 16, 2016 - 9:00am

Talking to young people about the devotion to the Sto. Nino, I get the strong impression that their attitude toward him is mostly at the level of the externals and the social. There's some tinge of religion in it,...

Freeman Opinion

A dam-burst of popular piety

By Fr. Roy Cimagala | January 13, 2016 - 9:00am

It's truly a great blessing to practically have a dam-burst of popular piety in many places of our country. It can only mean that in spite of our warts and all, we have an inculturated, if rudimentary, faith that...

Freeman Opinion

Beware of losing sense of sin

By Fr. Roy Cimagala | January 12, 2016 - 9:00am

With all this talk and general thrust of the Church today on mercy and compassion, a very commendable campaign, I must say, we just have to make sure that we do not lose our sense of sin as a consequence or unintended...

Freeman Opinion

The Bread of Life

By Fr. Roy Cimagala | August 8, 2015 - 10:00am

We, who believe in Christ, of course, know that this Bread of Life is Christ himself who, even if he died and resurrected on the third day and ascended into heaven, continues to be with us with his living presence,...

Freeman Opinion

Piety and adolescence

By Fr. Roy Cimagala | September 7, 2014 - 12:00am

They don't seem to get along well. But that's the challenge. How to make our adolescent boys and girls develop and practice piety is actually a grave concern for everyone, especially for the parents, teachers, and...

Freeman Opinion

Deepening popular piety

By Fr. Roy Cimagala | January 12, 2014 - 12:00am

I consider it a great blessing that in our country we still enjoy a tremendous amount of popular piety. This January, for example, we have the celebration in many places of the feast of the Sto. Niño that...

Freeman Opinion

Managing popular piety

By Fr. Roy Cimagala | January 21, 2013 - 12:00am

We have to give thanks to God, of the whopping kind,  for the tremendous devotion Cebuanos and many others have toward the Sto. Niño, the child Jesus dressed as king for indeed he is king of the uni...

Freeman Opinion

Piety for our times

By Fr. Roy Cimagala | January 15, 2013 - 12:00am

Piety is, of course, an indispensable virtue, because whether we like it or not, or are aware of it or not, we live it in one form or another.

Freeman Opinion

Singing and dancing piety

By Fr. Roy Cimagala | January 16, 2012 - 12:00am

Given our nature and our condition, we have to understand that our piety should not just be a purely spiritual affair.

Freeman Opinion

Popular piety revisited

By Fr. Roy Cimagala | January 15, 2012 - 12:00am

Thanks to God, we can still count on a rich mine of popular piety in our society.

Freeman Opinion