I am NOT a critic. I'm merely an observer. (Books, movies, plays, musicals etc.)

http://nelsondy.com/ Image from National Bookstore God's timing is ALWAYS perfect . I have just come home from service last night, and felt like resting.  Even if I was beat, I felt light inside, so when the book FINDING COMFORT by Nelson Dy arrived on my lap, I said to myself, "What in the world was Christian thinking? Why did he think I would like this book?  Did he think I was disturbed?  Was I an outcast?" Imagine, the back blurb said: Unloved. Unfulfilled. Unforgiven. Unwanted. Uncertain. Huh? It's true that I am sorta kinda broken, but I know I'm loved, blah, blah, blah... (Pride.) Yet as I opened the book and started reading, it felt like it was written just for me (How selfish can I get?). =) [Sowee, no spoilers...] Finding Comfort was written by a person from my former community (BF Homes Christian Fellowship, now known as Bread from Heaven  Community Church ...no longer are they only found @ BF Homes Las Pinas...they have other "bran...

Today is a special day.  It's my good friend and kumare (Gigi L. Salazar)'s birthday, and a few hours from now, my dad would turn a year older, plus of course one of the most important feasts in the Universal Church would be celebrated too. Special days deserve special movies, and this surely is one of them.  It's about not standing in the way of other people's dreams, love of family, and having your faith in God back, surrendering to Him, and trusting the He knows what's best. This movie is also well-written(novel by LUANNE RICE, teleplay by JIM MCGRATH)well-acted(ANNE HECHE, TATE DONOVAN, COURTNEY JINES, MICHAEL MITCHELL, VICTORIA JUSTICE, MARGO MARTINDALE, JOHN BENJAMIN HICKEY, JOHN CUNNINGHAM, LOURDES BENEDICTO et al), and well-directed(DICK LOWRY). EVERYone involved in this film should be congratulated. I shed some tears, and some of them were tears of joy. Thanks for writing this, Ms. Rice, and thanks for adapting it for the small screen, Mr. McGrath...

( source ) SAVED IN HOPE Spe Salvi, referencing the Latin phrase from Romans 8:24, Spe salvi facti sumus, is the second encyclical letter by Pope Benedict XVI promulgated on November 30, 2007, and is about the theological virtue of hope.-  Wikipedia In our Christian tradition, the period including the four Sundays prior to Christmas, the birth of Jesus, is called Advent .  Most of the families even light the advent wreath weekly and have readings around it everyday of the week. At its best, it is a time of preparation, of readying ourselves, of opening ourselves, that we may take in the graces that are offered to us by our dear Lord God Almighty. Advent, from the Latin  advenire , meaning “to come to,” and  adventus  meaning “the coming or arrival, especially of something awaited or momentous.” In other words, LOOKING FORWARD TO SOMETHING... (Father Domie Guzman talked about this last year too) Father Cecilio Magsino opened his first me...