tomorrow is her funeral and mass is at 2 pm. I am going to try to be there. This will be the very first funeral I am going to attend in a church. I cannot believe this. The only other time I was in church for a funeral was during Auntie Aurea’s funeral. But I was there because I was expected to sing in the choir.
Five years back, a 12 years old boy killed an 11 years old girl by stabbing her 20 times with the kitchen knife. We heard that the girl taunted him by calling him fatty and he lost it and stabbed her.
Today, the 17 years old boy is released from prison because our country’s law [...]
He said, “Forgive them, Father, for they do not know what they do.” But I am human. I am not Christ. I don’t have that kind of patience Job had.
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It is about five years ago that I got to know Michelle. She was a mental patient whom had been in and out of the hospital due to her suicides. Just before she died, she wrote a very, very long email to me. It tells her life story and of the things [...]
I dreaded the annual visit because by then, he would fetch his parents there. And with the traffic jam, the muddy ground, the crowds and the hillslopes, I would silently question the logic of going to a place just to light candles. Remember that back then, I was a free thinker or rather you can say, I was too lazy to even bother about any religions as those aren’t significant in my life back then.
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