Yesterday I visited Fr. Badillo in the Jesuit Residence. He stays at the infirmary there. The porter already knows my name and the nurses’ faces are becoming familiar. I usually visit him every Thursday, between 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. I don’t know if there is a significance to this. But Thursday is the day for [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Ateneo de Manila University’
17 Nov
Ateneo de Manila’s ROTC cadets pray the rosary during World War II
When the Pacific War began, President Quezon disbanded all the ROTC units in Manila. The Ateneo ROTC cadets disobeyed the order and volunteered to fight as one unit in Bataan. At sundown they came together to pray the Rosary, which initially earned them snickers from the”hardened” soldiers. In time they won respect for their behavior.
One [...]
12 Nov
Antonio C. Abaya’s “God’s Chosen Doormat” vs. Isaiah’s “Suffering Servant”
I. God’s Chosen Doormat
I read an article in the Manila Standard Today (3 Nov 2009) written by Antonio C. Abaya entitled “God’s Chosen Doormat” (This is also available in his blog):
At the risk of being stripped of my citizenship, I suggest that far from being God’s Chosen People, Filipinos inhabit what could be God’s Chosen [...]
9 Nov
Jan Leeroy New wins in Ateneo Art Awards 2009: mockery of Catholic iconography as modern art
Outside the Ateneo Art Gallery, perched on the second floor is a statue of an alien: a nude female Gollum with bald head, large eyes, and four breasts. It is colored gray but the paint drips to the white rock where it stands–if rock it was–more like four rounded breasts lumped together. It is grinning [...]
4 Nov
Fr. Timoteo Ofrasio, S.J. to celebrate a Traditional Latin Mass at the convent of the Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate in Novaliches
(Update 06 Nov 2009: This mass was postponed because Fr. Tim is sick.)
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This afternoon I went to the Loyola House of Studies to visit Fr. Timoteo Ofrasio, S.J. It is a few minutes walk from the Manila Observatory. You know it is the Loyola House of Studies when you see a dead end. I climbed [...]
3 Nov
Fr. Arcenio C. Jesena, S.J. on Fr. Richard G. Leonard, S.J.: How the ingratitude of the Ateneo students and faculty during Martial law broke his heart
I only knew Fr. Richard G. Leonard, S.J. as my European Modern History (Hi 14) professor, but I never really knew him until I read an article about him by his protege, Fr. Arcenio C. Jesena III, S.J. The article is published in authorsden.com. Because of copyright, I could not copy the article in [...]
22 Oct
How Fr. Joseph A. Galdon, S.J. scolded me when I got an F in math
I was a Freshman when I first met Fr. Galdon. I was lining up in his office, the Office of Admissions and Aid. It was the end of the first Semester and scholars who failed in a subject or who were not able to meet the required Q.P.I. (Quality Point Index) must meet the Director. [...]
17 Oct
The confessors of the Missionaries of Charity in Manila are Jesuits?
Whenever I visit Fr. Badillo, S.J. in the Jesuit Residence here at the Ateneo de Manila University, I always see Missionaries of Charity sisters in the lobby waiting like me. They wear their white sari with three blue stripes. One of them I saw through a glass window in a wooden door. She was meeting [...]
15 Oct
Fr. Victor Badillo, S.J.: There is a waterfall near the Jesuit San Jose Seminary
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Last Thursday, I talked with Fr. Victor Badillo, S.J. in his room at the Jesuit residence infirmary. I always visit him once or twice a week for a 15 minute chat. He is 79 years old. His scientific mind is still sharp, though his body has been weakened by several surgeries. He asked me to [...]
11 Oct
Fr. Miguel A. Bernad, S.J.: “Colegio de San Jose (1601-2001): A Quick Survey of the Turbulent 400-year History of an Educational Institution”
COLEGIO DE SAN JOSE [1601 – 2001]
A Quick Survey of the Turbulent 400-year History of an Educational Institution
taken from the lecture delivered by
Fr. Miguel A. Bernard, S.J.
16th Century
September. The newly arrived Jesuits opened the Colegio de Manila, the first institution of higher learning in the Philippines and the predecessor of Colegio de San Jose. [...]
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