Maundy Thursday used to be a solemn day in our town. After the mass of the Lord's Last Supper, we kept vigil of the Blessed Sacrament. The "Visita Iglesia" was a popular tradition where we joined other pilgrims in visiting seven churches as a form of homage to the Lord who died on the Cross. But the
Last week, many Filipinos went on a Visita Iglesia as part of their observance of Holy Week. It was a welcome development to be able to go around again after two years of restrictions due to the pandemic. And so, many among the faithful took the opportunity to visit the…
Skin everywhere, as phrased by Alexandria-born American writer André Aciman in his hugely popular Call Me By Your Name, a little too Millennial-ish, said a reader, meaning too youngish, to which I replied, “But the narrator is only 17 years old.”
A walking tour of Old Panama City Last month, we were on a Panama Canal cruise savoring the walls of the Old City (similar to Intramuros) in the colonial city of San Felipe, seeing the incredible architecture and history of different churches and trying out Latin America’s cuisine. Since w