In Hoc Signo Crucis Vinces
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MY ELDEST daughter, Vita, made the sign of the cross prior to playing "Angry Bird" on a computer. I reacted with a question: Hey, what do you mean by that? And she looked at me and smiled: Oh, it's nothing. Just a thought." Making the sign of a cross prior to starting off an activity is a culture thing (not only for Catholic Filipinos but also for some Latin Americans--just watch a boxing match between those two, Manny Pacquiao and Eric Morales for instance). For Baleten-on however, it is part of the morning ritual of taking a bath together with the incantation, " Pwera ubo, pwera sip-on, pwera eagnat, pwera sigbin, aswang! " (Save us from cough, save us from cold, save us from fever, save us from witches and demons!). It is at the head of the morning ritual of drivers as they start their day on the road, and make it again whenever they passed through a church. The devout commuters follow through with the ritual and non-Catholics wonder why in s