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

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”.

These days almost anyone senses what seem to be shadows of limbo hovering over the country, if not the world.

Filipinos celebrate Christmas as early as September. They also end their celebrations late into January’s Feast of the Child Jesus.

The whole narrative sounds almost like a bad plot of a television sit-com. The Chief Executive, seemingly in a fit of pique due to the VP’s criticisms of his drug war being on the losing end, dared her to become his “drug czar”.