New Year Appeal

2018 has been a year full of blessings for Tanghalang Anluwage, Inc and for the web ministry in particular. Several segments have gone from strength to strength: God-speak which has been featuring Sunday Gospel reflections; The Seven Last Words, our Holy Week special which featured religious and clergy sharing their thoughts on Jesus' seven last words; The Nine Gifts, which featured the youth inspiring us on how to prepare for the Lord's Birth; Pahina 3, which features poems, essays, etc.; and our Opinion columns which showcased writers' thoughts on a range of issues facing society and the Church.

The web's mother group held a reunion at the La Scala Residences & Cafe on 29 December 2018. Personally, it was heartwarming to see colleagues after so many years of being abroad. Furthermore, it was great to see some colleagues for the first time - the reunion gave an opportunity to put a face into the name!

Treasuring these blessings, I would like to thank you all for the support you have given to our ministry. Your support means a lot to us. 

As we welcome 2019, I would like to once again make an appeal, especially to our young readers. The web needs you! If you have a talent to write, design the web, promote via social media,  the web may be an avenue for you to use and develop your God-given talents! 

Treasuring the blessings of 2018, we entrust everything to the abiding presence of God who has been with us through the many peaks and troughs the web has experienced. His grace, we believe, is inextinguishable. Like the Virgin Mary and St Joseph, we renew our openness and humility to His grace.

Come and join us, dear sisters and brothers, in this ministry!

A Christ-filled 2019 to all!


Pietro S Albano
Editor-in-Chief

Glow and Grow!

One more year and we will now be out of the “teen” years. The previous "teen" years were full of challenges involving the short but bitter-sweet comeback in the parish and the subsequent outreach to Catholic Christians outside of Gagalangin and even outside the Philippines!

Anluwage can now be called as a full blow man, flourishing its ministry of evangelizing through communication using all sorts of media specially the web.

I would like to thank all the men and women behind the website and also all of our contributors all over the world.

Hopefully we will continue to glow, grow, and maximize the use of the web as our way of spreading the Good News to all men.

Many more years to come for all of us and congratulations for a job well done!


Vladimir V Reyes
President
Tanghalang Anluwage, Inc

Five Years Na!

Five years ago, Tanghalang Anluwage, Inc brought forth a new, innovative, and challenging ministry into the World Wide Web. It was an opportune time – the organization was then in a healing process following its disbandment in 2003.


One of the first features of our website was the reflection on the Sunday Mass Readings. This was previously known as ‘Before Sundays’. As the name suggests, reflections are made available to web surfers days before the Sunday when the particular readings would be proclaimed at Mass. Apart from ‘Before Sundays’ were opinion columns like ‘Tanggero’ penned by Mike Flores and ‘Bits and Bobs’ by yours truly. We never lose time in having our devotional specials too that year: ‘The Seven Last Words’ in Holy Week, while ‘The Nine Gifts’ in Advent. These and many more became our main stays in the web since then. In 2008, we streamlined our web contents and classified them under their respective sections.

By 2007, we started to recruit more hands to write the reflections for ‘Before Sundays’ which was renamed ‘God-speak’ to emphasize that what is being ‘spoken about’ is God and His message as contained in the Mass readings. We had our ‘Tres Marias’ taking turns in sharing their reflection to our readers: Anabelle Payod-Balla, Elizabeth Eguia, and Nicola Albano.

In 2008/09, ‘God-speak’ was able to attract more ‘God-speakers’ each sharing their experience on God’s Word which has been a source of inspiration and hope for our readers. We welcomed Grace Madriñan in 2008; the following year we opened our doors to Fidji Rivera-Sarmiento, Gharri Tulabut, Mayzelle Atienza, and Nette Andres. Anabelle is currently leading the Faith Section where ‘God-speak’ belongs. Incidentally, Grace has recently been tasked to head ‘Pahina 3’, another promising sub-section in the web.

This year, I am happy to announce that we will be having 12 writers in ‘God-speak’. Gharri, who is on his second year stint with us, ushered our readers in January. We thank Gharri for his lively and personal writings and look forward to his contribution in the future not only in ‘God-speak’ but elsewhere.

We welcome now Engr Benjamin ‘Benj’ Santiago, our February God-speaker. A family man whose apostolate is to keep families together and help them gain financial independence, Sir Benj was one of our writers in ‘The Nine Gifts’ last year. Rest assured, Sir Benj, of our prayers and support as you guides us in reflecting God’s Word this month.

More faces will be introduced as go through the year. Of course, there's still more spaces for everyone who would like to hone their skills in the web. We would need additional news writers and researchers as well as layout artists. Whatever talent you could contribute, you're more than welcome in this ministry! So feel free to contact us.

In the mean time, let’s continue to remember each other in our prayers and keep that light of Christ burning and shining for all to see, for all to follow, for all to abide with.

Thanks you once again for your unrelenting support. May the good Lord bless us all.

Happy 5th Birthday, www.anluwage.com !

Regards,

Piet