With almost everybody having a camera nowadays, weddings produce a ton of photos not only from the official photographers but also from wedding guests. Wouldn’t it be great to have all these photos printed in a photo book? It’s easy. Fotogra Books is an easy photobook service that can make 5x5in photobooks of your wedding […]
While cruising along Roxas Boulevard in Manila, one cannot but help notice Rajah Sulayman Park and the old-looking adobe church behind it – the Malate Catholic Church. The Malate Catholic Church (or MCC) was originally built by the Augustinian (OSA) friars in 1588 and is considered one of the oldest churches in Manila, outside the […]
Among the Catholic churches in Cavite, particularly near or around Tagaytay City, that have become popular wedding venues, one up-and-rising star is the quaint “little” church of San Antonio de Padua Quasi-Parish in Barangay Pooc, Silang. To get there, one has to take note of the road sign going to Silang, about a couple of […]
What's with the town of Angono, Rizal that they produce great artists? Is it the cool breeze coming from Laguna de Bay? Is it the fried itik or the paksiw na ayungin? Whatever it is we need to find out why sons of Angono such as Lucio San Pedro and Botong Francisco become National Artists. […]
Perhaps one of the most popular wedding venues in the Queen City of the South, Cebu City, is the parish church of the Archdiocesan Shrine of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus along busy D. Jakosalem Street. This church is hard to miss, with its cruciform shape uniquely designed in arches, surrounded by Japanese-inspired landscaped […]
Hearing of “Ayala Alabang Village” brings to mind visions of affluent Filipinos (and non-Filipinos) and their families. Thus, one cannot expect the parish church that attends to the spiritual needs of the residents, St. James the Great Parish, to be anything less. The parish was named after one of Jesus Christ’s first apostles - James, […]
Of course, everyone has heard about that exclusive, members-only recreation and residential community up in the cold, chilly hills of Tagaytay City in Cavite – Tagaytay Highlands, that property with its cable cars and funicular tram, overlooking Taal Lake and Volcano, and dubbed as an ideal place to escape to, just an hour away from […]
The Shrine of St. Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face inside the Villamor Air Base compound is actually one of Metro Manila’s newest churches. Its structure and architecture, described as “classic contemporary”, is reminiscent of the massiveness of the Basilica of St. Therese in Lisieux, Normandy, France’s second largest pilgrimage site next […]
St. John Bosco Parish Church or Don Bosco Church is located along Arnaiz St. formerly Pasay Road, at the corner of Amorsolo Street in Barangay San Lorenzo in Makati City. St. John Bosco Parish was founded in March 1976, after the late Jaime Cardinal Sin, then Archbishop of Manila, recognized the need for a new […]
The Salesians of Don Bosco (SDB) say it well: “Welcome to the mountain experience!” This is what best describes their Mary Help of Christians Center of Spirituality at Batulao in Nasugbu, Batangas. The whole complex is actually a center for spiritual experiences such as retreats and recollections, with amenities and facilities such as rooms, dormitories, […]
