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 ‘Manila Observatory’
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 [...]
4 Oct
My friend enters the convent of the Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate in Novaliches, Quezon City
Yesterday, after more than a year long of waiting, my friend finally enters the convent and joins the Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate as an aspirant. Her home is in Novaliches, Quezon city; the convent is just a few minutes ride from their home. I hope her parents accompanied her. Only her [...]
28 Aug
Pre-Renovation Survey of the Manila Observatory Chapel and Sacristy
A Survey of the Chapel
At the third floor of the Manila Observatory is a chapel, located near the stairs. From the outside, all you see is a series of vertical planks designed in such a way that you won’t see what is inside directly. The air flows past these the spaces between the planks and [...]
31 Jul
Philippine Jesuits in Exile: The Journals of Francisco Puig, S.J. (1768-1770)
I unearthed another book from Fr. Victor Badillo’s collection:
Nicholas P. Cushner, S.J., Philippine Jesuits in Exile: The Journals of Francisco Puig, S.J. (1768-1770). (Institutem Historicum S.I., Rome, Via Dei Penitenzieri, 20, 1964). 202 pages.
I shall read this first over the weekend and give it back to the Manila Observatory Library, as Fr. Badillo, S.J. instructed [...]
30 Jul
From Fr. Victor Badillo, S.J.’s Treasure Chest: Songs of St. Alphonsus Liguori, “Improperia” of Giuseppe Caruana, and “Notes on the Singing at High Mass”
I was in the Ionosphere Building of the Manila Observatory yesterday, segregating the books and documents in Fr. Badillo’s treasure chest–a large carton box–and took out all the books and manuals that I need. Many of them are about the ionosphere which I can never find the Ateneo de Manila library. Others are manuals on [...]
27 Jul
Life and Works of the Jesuit Canonist and Cartographer, Fr. Pedro Murillo, S.J. at the Yuchengco Museum, Makati City
The Spanish Embassy in cooperation with PHIMCOS (Philippine Map Collectors Society) has put up a map exhibit at the Yuchengco Museum, corner Ayala Avenue and Gil Puyat (Buendia).
Aside from the exhibit of 60 maps and prints, the famous Pedro Murillo Velarde map of 1744 is on display. This map (made of rice paper) is what [...]
17 Jul
Fr. Miguel Selga S.J.’s lamentation on the burning of Manila Observatory by the Japanese in 1945
In 1942, with the occupation of Manila by the Japanese army, all work in the observatory ceased and the following year the building was used as a military hospital. All American Jesuits were taken to concentration camps, and only Selga who was still the Director, remained free, Spain being a neutral country. In [...]
8 Jul
Fr. Adolfo Nicolas, S.J., Superior General of the Jesuit Order, visits Ateneo de Manila University: Schedule of activities
The Very Reverend Father Adolfo Nicolas, the Superior General of the Jesuit Order, will be on campus starting this weekend. Being the source of unity in the universal body of the Society of Jesus, the Superior General’s visit to the Philippines will hopefully foster greater union among collaborators within the various Jesuit apostolate in the [...]
30 Jun
Mass at the Jesuit Infirmary in the Loyola House of Studies: the Anointing of Sick Jesuits
I. The Road to the Infirmary
Today is the Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul. It’s 5:30 p.m. and I haven’t yet went to mass. I am thinking of going to de la Strada, but it requires an effort. I called my friend and she suggested that I go to the Jesuit Infirmary chapel [...]
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