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THEY ALSO SERVE WHO ONLY STAND AND WAIT

Written on 24 March 2020 as a contribution to the efforts to convince people to stay put and stay home as a first response to the appeal made to citizens. Taking off from a line in the poet John Milton’s Sonnet on his efforts to overcome obstacles imposed by his blindness, the piece provides a rationale for staying put in place to try and put a stop to the pandemic that was beginning to grow in the country as it swept other parts of the globe. This piece was published in Rappler and an adapted version in the Jesuit magazine, America, in NY, USA

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THE SAINTS NEXT DOOR

(Written on Good Friday, 10 April 2020, and inspired by a phrase uttered by Pope Francis in his remarks during his homily without text at the Basilica of St Peter in the Vatican on Maundy Thursday.)

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THE RELEVANCE OF A THIRTY-DAY RETREAT IN A LOCKDOWN

(Written on 28 March 2020 as an attempt to draw lessons from a thirty-day silent retreat I had taken years ago in relation to the lockdown that was declared in the whole of Luzon. Drawing lessons from the experience, I enumerate the seven-steps formula in the following order: Re-Purpose, Routinize, Re-Focus, Re-Charge, Re-Assess, Re-Connect, and Realize.)