Welcome to Lotus Rainier
The “Red” Stories of Martyrs’ Sacrifice of One’s Life So Others Might Live
“Yes, Martial Law is now over. The cruel tyrant had died. But there were other perpetrators during this gruesome era, and many of them are still around today. Now, they use their ill-gotten wealth to attempt to rewrite history and boldly proclaim to the present...
Part II: Philippine Chamber Singers-LA give their all to OPM at the Walt Disney Hall
THERE’S music in the air, waving, whistling. Whispering to me, backwards, giving it a chase. And if you turn it you couldn’t even sing it. Maybe this tune is going mad in my head. There’s a poem in the air, shouting, roaring. Dancing, rolling. But when you go together...
Philippine Chamber Singers give their all to Original Pilipino Music at the Walt Disney Concert Hall
I AM with you wherever you are. I am with you forevermore. There is no other love more than my love for you. I am with you my one and only love. You are with me wherever I am. You are with me forevermore. You’re always in my mind wherever I am. You are with me...
Grandmothers on their Adventure
Our #crazyrichasians 51st high school reunion. Full of joy, walking for miles and miles, eating, artworks seen all around the city, fresh flowers surrounding you. What a great, healthy, livable, walkable, orderly, clean and plant-based nutrition at most places. @...
A Great Day Indeed
We made it to the US side and Canadian sides of the Niagara Falls on our second day. We were meant to be lost as we caught double rainbows. Today is a great day, after the gray clouds cleared. A first adventure for most of these grandmas. I even got to drive in Canada...
Fr. Alden Sison’s pastoral creativity and culturally competent servant leadership
Love today invites us to look beyond the short-term, taking a concern for the generations to come and not leaving them a legacy of easy solutions…It invites us to move forward without numbing ourselves to reality, without being ostriches burying their heads in the...
St. Genevieve High School: Its transformative purpose of building hearts and nurturing students’ potential
Cover Photo: Dan Horn with Fr. Alden Sison and visiting religious faculty I recalled the Columbine shooting only four months earlier [1999] and challenged the students [Class 2000] to live the lessons learned from that horrific event. No one should feel like a...
St. Genevieve High School: its transformative purpose of building hearts and nurturing students’ potential
Cover Photo: Dan Horn and core faculty team with students inside St. Genevieve's library St. Paul in his letter to the Ephesians tells them that he kneels before the Father praying, “Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith.” He yearns for them to “know the love...
Memories to Keep
One blistering afternoon in California, I asked my classmate from Chicago, who was visiting why she was so generous in attention and time with her grandchildren who came with us, adventurous grandmothers. I will never forget her answer: "I don't have material wealth...