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Crumbs - Spiritual Reflections of Fr. Bobby R. Titco's blog "Then Jesus declared, 'I am the Bread of Life. He who comes to Me will never go hungry, and he who believes in Me will never be thirsty'" (Jn 6:35). Jesus is our Bread. I am but His crumb. But if I may satisfy any hunger, please share this little crumb with others. Let no one go hungry. - Fr. Bob As the title clearly expresses, it is a spiritual reflection of Fr. Bobby R. Titco. A diocesan priest assigned in the parish of San Jose Manggagawa, 3025 Molave Street, Manuguit, Tondo, Metro Manila, Philippines.

SPIRITUALITY OF THE “CRUMBS” Homily of Archbishop Gaudencio B. Rosales Launching of Pondo ng Pinoy Community Foundation, Inc. Folk Arts Theater, Roxas Boulebard, Pasay City 11 June 2004 9:00 a.m. WHAT IS PONDO ng PINOY? The Situation Today Manila has more than half of its population as poor (52% to be exact). The Makati, Mandaluyong and Ortigas skylines and the many condominium complexes around may not have the intention to deceive, but they certainly conceal the true state of life for more than one-half of the country’s people. The GDPs and GNPs do not tell the true picture and stories of our less fortunate brothers and sisters. These economic indicators always speak of averages. The poor cannot eat economic product “averages” no matter how well they are prepared. All told the unassailable story of the Philippine economy is revealed daily at the meal plates (if they still use plates) of families in the slums, shacks, cardboard homes and makeshift sheds you see in Metro Manila (a...

THE THEOLOGY OF THE CRUMBS By. Bishop Luis Antonio G. Tagle Launching of Pondo ng Pinoy Community Foundation, Inc. 11 June 2004 Folk Arts Theatre Roxas Boulevard, Pasay City (Editor’s Note: This article is a transcript of the talk of Bishop Chito Tagle during the launching of Pondo ng Pinoy. Due to some garbled parts of the recording towards the end of his talk, a faithful summary is herein encoded.) The story of The Rich Man and Lazarus (Lk 16:19-31) provides the biblical basis for “The Theology of the Crumbs”. There was a rich man who feasted on good food and lived in great luxury everyday, while Lazarus, a poor beggar whose wounds were licked by dogs, lay by the door waiting for crumbs. When Lazarus died, he went to heaven and was received at the bosom of Abraham. When the rich man died, he went to hell. The rich man asked Abraham in vain to send Lazarus to warn his brothers so that they would not come to the same place of pain: “If they will not listen to Moses and the pro...

Pondo ng Pinoy is a brainchild of Cardinal Gaudencio Rosales of A rchdiocese of Manila started when he was a bishop of Batangas. S pirituality of the Crumbs (Cardinal Gaudencio Rosales,D.D.) T heology of the Crumbs (Bishop Chito Tagle, D.D.) T heology of the Crumbs ( Fr. Ambo S. David) For more information concerning this Pondo ng Pinoy go to www.pondongpinoy.com.ph Blogs commenting Fr. Jessie's post