Author: Rev. Eutiquio B. Belizar, Jr., SThD

I woke up in the middle of the night recently. The pall of gloom seemed worsened by a massive blackout in Eastern Samar my province.

I hear your sometimes shrill voices. I see your worried faces. I feel your fears. I join your laughter when you try hard to find humor in the many tales of Covid-19 horror.

In fact, I have already done that just now, if only to take a chance at cheering you up.

For his disciples yesterday and today, Jesus spending forty days of fasting in the desert could be offered as an anticipation and model of social distancing.

Lent, as many of us know, is from an old English word “lencten” which means “spring time”.