Shaped like Magellan's hat
We were at Sto. Nino Parish Church in Mactan to hear mass on a late Sunday afternoon. This is the first time I attended mass conducted in Cebuano dialect and saw young women in their ministry wear long veils like the very icons in the altar. We left with no idea what the entire one-hour sermon was all about. It felt like much being a foreigner in your own land. I hope they have English and Filipino versions during the day, and even Korean. This particular area in Mactan Island is a tourist belt.
Inside the hat-shaped church on a Sunday
So in between ho-hums, unimaginable boredom and missing church services at CCF, I managed to steal shots of the Sto. Nino Parish Church. The small church is right across two major roads leading to Cordova and Punta Engano. What’s amazing about this church is its unique architecture. The building was shaped like Magellan’s hat (I would have said Anakin Skywalker’s) and its glass panels depict the image of the Sto. Nino tinted with bright colors. It is no longer as backward as what a typical parish in the outskirts of a province should be, bamboo blinds and all. Cebu churches have actually come a long way to become one of the province’s heritage sites.
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If some of you are having sleepless nights, nightmares and are losing weight even without popping an Anoretix just because of credit card bills, I recommend paying Rene’s Diskarte a visit these days for practical legal remedies. Know your civil rights. (Apparently, in the Philippines, you’ve got several of them just in case you did not know.) Diskarte has enumerated ways to combat collection harrassments through legal means which helped a lot of his anxious readers get their sleep back. It’s time to sing a Hotdogs line “…sinong tinakot mo, ako ba?” to these credit collection monsters from hell who employ all kinds of dirty tricks to make your life miserable.
This is not to encourage everyone to get into debt and run away from the obligation. Pay your dues but let your awful experience be a lesson to you and never again be enslaved by your creditors. You will never know how things are going to turn up in the future. Live a simple and quiet life.
