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Faith Healing

Saturday, December 19, 2009
By Herald News Team
Faith Healing

By Rudy M. Viernes Many books have been written about faith healing, divine healing, spiritual healing, hailing prayer and other similar expressions which are essentially synonymous to each other. There have been genuine testimonies of people who have been healed through God’s intervention. But the foundation of this truth lies not... »

The United Nations And The Prince Of Peace

Monday, November 2, 2009
By Herald News Team
The United Nations And The Prince Of Peace

By Rudy M. Viernes The United Nations is a world organization of independent countries. It celebrates its 64th founding anniversary on October 24 this year. It is a precursor of the League of Nations formed in 1920 and formally dissolved in 1946. The U.N. was organized in 1945 with the adaption and signing of... »

The Filipina(O) - Part II

Wednesday, October 14, 2009
By Herald News Team
The Filipina(O) - Part II

By Rudy M. Viernes The Filipinos are gracious and hospitable people, the last virtue is widely known. They aren’t brusque and confrontational. They are polite and respectful. They have dazzling strains of Filipino traits, like pakikisama, utang na loob, hiya, pakiramdam, the Bahala na attitude, and spirit of bayanihan. Pakikisama is getting along... »

The Filipina (O) Part I

Saturday, October 3, 2009
By Herald News Team
The Filipina (O)  Part I

By Rudy M. Viernes Filipinos have a checkered heritage. For 377 years of Spanish rule and 46 years of American, except for a brief four years of Japanese, it’s not surprising if Filipinos seem to be more Latin than Asian. Add a bit of Chinese, Indian, British, Arabian influences and you got a... »

The Nativity of the Virgin Mary

Sunday, September 20, 2009
By Herald News Team

By Rudy M. Viernes The Marian dimension of Christian life takes on a special meaning this month of September with the celebration of the birthday of the Virgin Mary on Sept. 8. To many Christians all over the world Sept. 8 is just an ordinary day. They don’t have an iota of its... »

Our Heroes

Tuesday, August 25, 2009
By Herald News Team

By Rudy M.Viernes The Philippine government cannot provide employment opportunities to its teeming employable citizens, sad to say..So, many Filipinos go abroad where employment abounds. Thus the template OFW was coined for Overseas Filipino Worker (which used to be OCW for Overseas Contract Worker) and has become commonplace, a phenomenon nevertheless, and it’s here to... »

Aral At Asal

Tuesday, August 18, 2009
By Herald News Team

By Rudy M. Viernes rudmanfriday@yahoo.com Our stint in the renewal movement in the Philippines was one with substance and a period of our life we will fondly remember. My late wife and I were deeply involved in myriad activities that broadened our religious horizons. As renewed Christians we went through the ladders of spiritual... »

All Days Are God’s Days

Monday, July 13, 2009
By Herald News Team

By Rudy M. Viernes We had a wall calendar printed in full color with all the days of the week changing slots. In this calendar Monday (Moon or Luna for Lunes) is at the left most column which is the first day of the week, followed by Tuesday which is on Monday’s slot, and... »

The Spirit In The Holy Trio

Wednesday, June 10, 2009
By Herald News Team

By Rudy M. Viernes The seventh Sunday after Easter is Pentecost Sunday. This year it will be on May 11. Pentecost is not a specially celebrated Church event. Not many Catholics, even those renewed, know much about the Pentecost and its significance. The Pentecostal movement is a large and powerful religious movement... »

The Good Samaritan

Friday, May 22, 2009
By Herald News Team

By Rudy M. Viernes The Samaritans, the inhabitants of biblical Samaria (now in western Lebanon) were looked down by the Jews with contempt because they were heathens or were adversed to any particular religion or faith. Inversely in more recent times the racist Nazis of WWII Germany were deeply disdainful of the Jews because of... »

The Philippine Festivals

Monday, May 18, 2009
By Herald News Team

By Rudy M. Viernes The first day of May in the Philippines ushers in the start of a month of merrymakings, of festivals, processions, Santacruzan, Flores de Mayo, flowers and the Virgin Mary. »

Filipino English II

Sunday, March 15, 2009
By Herald News Team

By Rudy M. Viernes The success of last year’s Summer Olympics held in Beijing could be attributed in some measure to the legions of young Chinese volunteers who were omnipresent everywhere, doing their thing, eager to please, »

He Who Humbles Himself Is Exalted, He Who Exalts Himself Is Humbled

Sunday, March 1, 2009
By Herald News Team

“Look at those rice stalks that are heavy with grain, they bow; look at those that have no grain, they stand erect proudly, aloft, but they are empty.” »

Filipino English

Wednesday, February 18, 2009
By Herald News Team

By Rudy M.Viernes The Philippines is the third largest English speaking country in the world percentage wise (83 million out of 90 million) »