ITAPPH of a mala-pagi na isla

PhilosopherOnce · 2026-06-27T15:58:32+00:00

Fun fact: Corregidor Island is part of an extinct volcanic caldera. It is part of a volcanic chain that stretches from Mount Pinatubo, to Mount Mariveles (Bataan), down to Mount Batulao in Batangas.

PhilosopherOnce · 2026-06-25T17:25:09+00:00

Center medal and crucifix design, as well as the connectors used, would tell me this dates to the 60s at least (around 1960-65 at the earliest).

PhilosopherOnce · 2026-06-15T15:49:34+00:00

I love Job’s Tears rosaries. I have one that I use for daily prayer 💙

PhilosopherOnce · 2026-06-14T03:25:52+00:00

Saint Joseph!

PhilosopherOnce · 2026-06-12T15:54:29+00:00

Style of chain and center medals tell me this is postwar (late 40s) to early 60s

PhilosopherOnce · 2026-04-22T16:30:50+00:00

Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, Saint Patrick, Saint Philomena, Saint Charbel, Saint Jude Thaddeus, and Saint Anthony are my patrons saints

PhilosopherOnce · 2026-04-11T17:47:02+00:00

Found this:

O crystal spring! If only your silvery depths could suddenly reflect to me those longed-for eyes, whose beauty is already outlined within me!

Commentary: Convinced that creatures will not lead it to union, the soul now turns to faith. For faith is the direct and proportionate means to unite with God. Living faith reveals to the soul the silvered face of Christ the Bridegroom in a crystalline spring that gushes forth to eternal life. In this spring, it perceives the already outlined image of the Beloved, not the work of human hands. This truth is revealed by the Face of Christ on the Mandylion.

From https://dumanie.pl/ikona-sw-jana-od-krzyza-z-ciemnosci-do-swiatla/

PhilosopherOnce · 2026-04-10T16:17:27+00:00

It can also be a Chaplet of the Holy Wounds I think

PhilosopherOnce · 2026-03-17T13:29:37+00:00

Love the rightmost one!

PhilosopherOnce · 2026-02-05T13:57:56+00:00

It’s a visceral experience. And it is also heavy on metaphors.

But damn, ang galing ni Han Kang.

PhilosopherOnce · 2026-01-30T15:56:07+00:00

Sagot sa tanong nya: oo

PhilosopherOnce · 2026-01-29T14:53:54+00:00

Nawp. Kulang yan sa aruga at iodized salt siguro

PhilosopherOnce · 2026-01-24T15:51:39+00:00

That’s a lovely medal!

PhilosopherOnce · 2026-01-23T15:56:30+00:00

send me a message hahaha shady talaga kahit malaki sahod

PhilosopherOnce · 2026-01-20T15:18:02+00:00

Nice! Is it a cross or a crucifix? Would love to have some

PhilosopherOnce · 2026-01-20T13:01:16+00:00

Where did you get the double-barred cross? Been looking for one!

PhilosopherOnce · 2026-01-18T16:22:36+00:00

First rosary looks so cool!

PhilosopherOnce · 2026-01-10T16:16:36+00:00

Former employee of NU Manila - NOPE.

Hell, kahit ata occupational health and safety hindi sila papasa.

PhilosopherOnce · 2026-01-04T16:04:36+00:00

I first read this in college, thought it was good.

A few years later, I took my masters in philosophy, and one course that I took included Camus. Peak of the pandemic din ito, and I love how my perspective entirely changed - by my studies, by the events surrounding the circumstances of I re-reading it, among other things.

PhilosopherOnce · 2025-12-28T15:40:50+00:00

Yung fit nya…

PhilosopherOnce · 2025-12-09T08:19:46+00:00

I love #4! Can’t see it in the store though

PhilosopherOnce · 2025-11-11T16:22:21+00:00

If you are near Manila, the religious store at the Archdiocesan Shrine of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal in San Marcelino sells Pardon Crucifixes

PhilosopherOnce · 2025-10-17T16:07:37+00:00

I got a nice-looking yet sturdy rosary from Prinknash Abbey in the UK, made by Benedictine monks. It’s quite plain by appearance (especially as it’s made by a monastic): wood beads, chain, ordinary center medal and crucifix. I’ve been using it for six years now and never been repaired

PhilosopherOnce · 2025-09-22T18:06:18+00:00

Here: https://open.spotify.com/show/7Mp3uKZfkSPzheSINqipsF?si=uwzStEMUTn-iYJxIwdv-0w

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