Utoy’s Pop Quiz Ek-Ek: What does your church wear reveal about you?

Nainspired ako sa success ng mga FaceBook quizzes (na madalas walang kwenta), syempre, gusto ko ring gumawa ng pareho (yung wala ring kwenta).  Gaya-gaya lang, pauso, ganun.  Ang napagdiskitahan kong topic ay ang ating usual Sunday wear, yung mga soot-soot natin kapag nagsisimba tayo, at kung anong sinasabi nito tungkol sa atin.  Bakit kamo yun ang [...]

Mga Sure-Fire Tips para Hindi Antukin sa Simbahan

Una sa lahat, welcome kay Atticus, kay Luna, kay Jesshua, kay Ikay, kay Bluguy at kay Katpusa sa blogroll ko!  Mga kabisyo, tangkilikin din po natin ang mga kabaliwan nila sa blogs nila.ü
Pangalawa,  maraming maraming salamat kila Malen at Menard sa offers nilang Datkom.  Nakakataba po ng puso pero parang di pa po ready si Utoy sa Big League. [...]

Bintana Chronicles

HIMNO KO KAY BATHALA
(pasensya na, impromptu lang)

Of God, Atheists and Christmas Mornings

Warning 1:  This is a snobbishly serious english post.  Nosebleed.
Warning 2:  It is very important to visit this link first to know more about Taizé and understand what I’m about to say. 
I went and stayed at Taizé for four days, together with Père Manuel, two adult monitors and some teenagers from La Mure.  At the very beginning of the [...]

All-Saint: Purely Pictures

Ang totoo nyan eh gusto kong dumaldal tungkol sa: 

pangalawang pamumundok namin ni Brigitte, sa ngalan naman ngayon ng raspberry tart
ang aking pagkabano sa isnoh
ang recipe ko sa crepe (sosyal na pangalan ng lumpia wrapper)
ang bago kong karir as a kantoro
next ten questions na dapat di itanong sa seminarista

pero dahil abala ang Brother Utoy eh pagtiyagaan [...]

“Dikon”

When St. Paul noticed that certain Christian widows were being neglected from the distiribution of temporal goods, he assigned seven young Greek hunks to do the deeds.  They were called diakonos which literally means… waiters.  It was such a big hit for the early Christian church (especially among the ladies) to have them that the practice of ordaining deacons remained [...]

Bisi-bisihan Overload

Recent highlights on the charmed life of Utoy, the saintly seminarian from hell.

my dad had a stroke last week.  I’m flying to bicol on the 5th of July to visit him.  My sister said he’s calling out for me.  Weeks ago, when I called him up on his birthday, he pleaded me to visit him there before [...]

Death by Breviary

This is going to be a boring post so bear with me.
In the seminary, the most beloved book isn’t the bible.  No, not Dan Brown novels either (it’s just a phase, really).  Not even the Pugad-Baboy, Beerkada and the wonderful Kiko Machine series either.  FHM and Maxim failed to qualify too because technically, they’re magazines, not books.  Beloved [...]

My Top Five Coolest Marian Titles from the Litany

(This countdown is purely self-indulgent and does not aim to explain any theology or dogma so cut me some slack here, ok?)
   
Welcome back to our Top Five Count Down!  Last March, I had a post on the top five coolest apostles, which, mercilessly, no one bothered to read.  Gayunpaman, that does not stop me from rating [...]

Exultet: The Aftermath

The Easter Vigil went just fine, thank God.  The missionary priest who celebrated the Mass made more mistakes than I do with my exultet that it didn’t matter anymore for me to get all the hymn’s notes right. He didn’t know where to place the nails on the Easter candle (the rubrics calls for grains of [...]