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+ Follow BLESSED VIRGIN MARY Tag
BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
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                (
                    [ArticleID] => 2229014
                    [Title] => Our Blessed Mother
                    [Summary] => Tomorrow, we will celebrate the Blessed Virgin Mary’s immaculate conception in the womb of her mother, St Anne. The feast means that Mary, from the moment of her conception, was free from original sin.
                    [DatePublished] => 2022-12-07 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 136475
                    [Focus] => 1
                    [AuthorID] => 1804837
                    [AuthorName] => Boo Chanco
                    [SectionName] => Business
                    [SectionUrl] => business
                    [URL] => 
                )

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                (
                    [ArticleID] => 2146759
                    [Title] => Immaculate Conception of Mary 2021
                    [Summary] => Yesterday, December 8, we celebrated the Feast of the Immaculate Conception of Mama Mary, the Patroness of our country.
                    [DatePublished] => 2021-12-09 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 133239
                    [Focus] => 1
                    [AuthorID] => 1223596
                    [AuthorName] => Cherry Piquero Ballescas
                    [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion
                    [SectionUrl] => opinion
                    [URL] => 
                )

            [2] => Array
                (
                    [ArticleID] => 1949987
                    [Title] => The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
                    [Summary] => It is the 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time. However, today is also the birthday of the Blessed Virgin Mary whom we know was born to St. Anne and St. Joachim as written by the protoegevangelium of James, an apocryphal text from the second century. For the record, the Feast of the Virgin Mary is venerated in the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Oriental Orthodox Churches, and the Anglican Communion.
                    [DatePublished] => 2019-09-08 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 135522
                    [Focus] => 1
                    [AuthorID] => 1805403
                    [AuthorName] => Valeriano Avila
                    [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion
                    [SectionUrl] => opinion
                    [URL] => 
                )

            [3] => Array
                (
                    [ArticleID] => 1879254
                    [Title] => Mary visits Elizabeth
                    [Summary] => It is now the 4th Sunday of Advent and Christmas is just a few days away. Today’s gospel reading comes from Luke 1:39-45, it is about our Blessed Virgin Mary visiting her cousin Elizabeth because the Angel Gabriel told her she was six months pregnant.
                    [DatePublished] => 2018-12-23 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 135522
                    [Focus] => 1
                    [AuthorID] => 1805403
                    [AuthorName] => Valeriano Avila
                    [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion
                    [SectionUrl] => opinion
                    [URL] => 
                )

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                (
                    [ArticleID] => 1546114
                    [Title] => Still no justice for the fallen 44 SAF troopers
                    [Summary] => 

I returned from my pilgrimage to Akita, Japan with a bad case of colds and lost my voice; hence I had to cancel two tapings for my talk show “Straight from the Sky.”

[DatePublished] => 2016-01-24 09:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135522 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805274 [AuthorName] => Bobit S. Avila [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1545237 [Title] => A Marian procession [Summary] =>

The grand Marian procession is a revival of the century-old tradition which existed in Intramuros prior to World War II.

[DatePublished] => 2016-01-22 09:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135074 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804795 [AuthorName] => Johnny Litton [SectionName] => Modern Living [SectionUrl] => modern-living [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1543505 [Title] => Pit Señor to everyone [Summary] =>

Today is the Feast of the Señor Sto. Niño and there are two gospel readings today, one about the Wedding in Cana which you can read in John 2: 1-11.

[DatePublished] => 2016-01-16 09:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135522 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805274 [AuthorName] => Bobit S. Avila [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1542818 [Title] => Must we forever remain a 3rd world country? [Summary] =>

While we were still in Japan, we never got any international news simply because even in the plush hotels of Tokyo, they rarely have international news like CNN or BBC.

[DatePublished] => 2016-01-14 09:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135522 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805274 [AuthorName] => Bobit S. Avila [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1542470 [Title] => A postscript on our visit to the shrine in Akita [Summary] =>

Akita, Japan — I woke up early in the morning and I looked over the window from my room at the Metropolitan Hotel in Akita and I was greeted by a sight that I rarely see… snow falling on the ground, turning everything to white. While Christmas is already over… seeing snow after a long time reminded me of a White Christmas.

[DatePublished] => 2016-01-13 09:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135522 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805274 [AuthorName] => Bobit S. Avila [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1542132 [Title] => A visit to Akita in northern Japan [Summary] =>

On an early Monday morning, we went to the Shinagawa Station and took the subway to Tokyo Station for our trip to Akita Prefecture, four hours away, northwest of Japan, facing Siberia, Russia.

[DatePublished] => 2016-01-12 09:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135522 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805274 [AuthorName] => Bobit S. Avila [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
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