At around 1:00 a.m. local time on Saturday, Jan. 28, 2011 a light descent seems vertically from the night sky and hover just above an ancient Islamic shrine, the Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount’ in the holy city of Jerusalem. After a few moments, and emitting a flash of a strobe, the light took off, disappearing into the night sky.

For all UFO believers but especially for the skeptics, take your time in examining these videos that are too good to be true!

sources: The Tech Herald, Discovery News, New Advent

February 2nd is the Feast of the Presentation of our Lord.

“Jaro Feista” is more than just a festival of food, pageantry and cock fighting. The “Jaro Fiesta” is a Roman Catholic Feast of the Presentation of Our Lord in the Temple, commemoration of Mary’s rite of Purification and reflection on Simeon’s Canticle.

Our Lady of the Candles (Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria) is also known as the Candlemas Virgin. It was the title given to Our Blessed Virgin Mary in commemoration of the Presentation of Jesus and Mary’s own rite of Purification according to Jewish Law.

According to the Mosaic law a mother who had given birth to a man-child was considered unclean for seven days; moreover she was to remain three and thirty days “in the blood of her purification”; for a maid-child the time which excluded the mother from sanctuary was even doubled. When the time (forty or eighty days) was over the mother was to “bring to the temple a lamb for a holocaust and a young pigeon or turtle dove for sin”; if she was not able to offer a lamb, she was to take two turtle doves or two pigeons; the priest prayed for her and so she was cleansed. (Leviticus 12:2-8)

Forty days after the birth of Christ, Mary complied with this precept of the law, she redeemed her first-born from the temple (Numbers 18:15), and was purified by the prayer of Simeon the just, in the presence of Anna the prophetess (Luke 2:22 sqq.). No doubt this event, the first solemn introduction of Christ into the house of God, was in the earliest times celebrated in the Church of Jerusalem. We find it attested for the first half of the fourth century by the pilgrim of Bordeaux, Egeria or Silvia. The day (14 February) was solemnly kept by a procession to the Constantinian basilica of the Resurrection, a homily on Luke 2:22 sqq., and the Holy Sacrifice. But the feast then had no proper name; it was simply called the fortieth day after Epiphany. This latter circumstance proves that in Jerusalem Epiphany was then the feast of Christ’s birth.

From Jerusalem the feast of the fortieth day spread over the entire Church and later on was kept on the 2nd of February, since within the last twenty-five years of the fourth century the Roman feast of Christ’s nativity (25 December) was introduced. In Antioch it is attested in 526 (Cedrenue); in the entire Eastern Empire it was introduced by the Emperor Justinian I (542) in thanksgiving for the cessation of the great pestilence which had depopulated the city of Constantinople.

Article sources: newadvent.org (Catholic Encyclopedia),
Photo sources: en.wikipilipinas.org, daughter of the King,  theleastofallthefaithful

Dinagyang Festival video. Professional photography by RRGenciana Photography, Iloilo City.

First, the Best Pound-for-Pound Boxer-Manny Pacquiao

November 13, 2010: Manny Pacquiao , the Pound-for-Pound king once again prove to the world that he is the best boxer of all time after beating Antonio Margarito in  a round-12 match, capturing the World Boxing Council Super Welterweight title, his 8th title, at the Dallas Cowboys Stadium, Texas, USA.

Pacquiao defeated Margarito in a….why I am writing this? Just look at the picture below and you may have your own version of the fight.

Secondly, I came across this interesting post in FB.

HBO Taunts Mayweather During Pacquiao vs. Margarito

The greatest coward in boxing history Floyd Mayweather Jr. was taunted during the HBO pay-per-view telecast of the Pacquiao-Margarito superfight in Dallas.

During the post-fight wrap up, on-air conversation between Jim Lampley and Max Kellerman, a very interesting exchange took place between the two HBO announcers…

Lampley stated,”So years from now we’ll say we know Mayweather was a genius. He waited for Pacquiao to fight five bigger guys. He watched him fight a guy who is seventeen pounds larger.
Maybe he’ll take the fight (with Pacquiao) next week?”

Kellerman responded with a chuckle, which made Lampley smile himself.

To which Kellerman added, with a tone of amusement in his voice, “We’ll seeeee!”

It was quality commentating by the HBO team. One of the female viewers at our fight party named Lynn, a long time boxing fan, remarked after the Lampley-Kellerman exchange, “They’re taunting him now.”

Well, one reader has a piece of advise for Floyd Mayweather Jr.: “Pacman is way out of your league man. He is a public servant now as a congressman in his hometown. That person you used to call a midget is even a bigger person than you are now. He is serving his country. And you, you can’t even serve your own wife and family. So please, stop trash talking and nobody will ever bother you again. Just live with a fact that you are indeed, the Best…. the Best Chicken in the world.”

So, did the victory of Pacquiao against Magarito proved another best?

Floyd Matweather Jr.,The Best Chicken in the World?