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                    [Title] => Death, a beginning not an end
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As priest, I get to see many people already on the verge of death.

[DatePublished] => 2015-11-02 09:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134343 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096945 [AuthorName] => Fr. Roy Cimagala [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1366025 [Title] => Our daily resurrections [Summary] =>

Our Christian faith teaches us that there will be the resurrection of the dead at the end of time. That's what we profess in the Creed: "I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting. Amen."

[DatePublished] => 2014-09-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134343 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096945 [AuthorName] => Fr. Roy Cimagala [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1354087 [Title] => Coping with misery [Summary] =>

Our human condition cannot avoid misery in one form or another.

[DatePublished] => 2014-08-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134343 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096945 [AuthorName] => Fr. Roy Cimagala [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1349751 [Title] => Prepare to be a sacrificial lamb [Summary] =>

To be very realistic in life, we have to be ready and eager to become a sacrificial lamb.

[DatePublished] => 2014-07-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134343 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096945 [AuthorName] => Fr. Roy Cimagala [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1345752 [Title] => Let's learn how to suffer [Summary] =>

Suffering is unavoidable in our life. Anyone who thinks otherwise is certainly out of touch with reality and is going through the worst kind of suffering that has no meaning, when, in fact, with Christ, suffering is literally dripping with meaning and redemptive power.

[DatePublished] => 2014-07-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134343 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096945 [AuthorName] => Fr. Roy Cimagala [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1316272 [Title] => Tolerance, flexibility fruit of charity [Summary] =>

Given our current situation, we cannot expect our present life to be simple, filled with peace and harmony. We should rather expect it to be complicated, full of tension, and that is because we are complicated ourselves. We have to be prepared to handle this predicament.

[DatePublished] => 2014-04-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134343 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096945 [AuthorName] => Fr. Roy Cimagala [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1314044 [Title] => Divine mercy not meant to spoil us [Summary] =>

Our Christian faith tells us that God's love for us is eternal. It's a love that goes all the way to showing mercy for us in the form of his Son becoming man and taking up all the sins of men by dying on the cross.

[DatePublished] => 2014-04-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134343 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096945 [AuthorName] => Fr. Roy Cimagala [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1193541 [Title] => Spirit of penance [Summary] =>

To be sure, our life is supposed to be happy one.

[DatePublished] => 2013-09-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134343 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096945 [AuthorName] => Fr. Roy Cimagala [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 862118 [Title] => Candles & fireworks [Summary] =>

Today, as we honor our dead, I celebrate life.

[DatePublished] => 2012-11-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135221 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1391760 [AuthorName] => Joanne Rae M. Ramirez [SectionName] => Newsmakers [SectionUrl] => newsmakers [URL] => http://imageshack.us/a/img843/2497/newsmaker1newthumbx.jpg ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 827297 [Title] => Feminism [Summary] =>

 A group asked me recently to give them a talk about feminism.

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