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EPIC FLOOD: A CALL FOR COMPASSION<br />

THE pictures we see in the newspapers<br />

and television screen in these<br />

days, after the epic flood brought<br />

about by devastating tropical storm<br />

“Ondoy” have many stories to tell<br />

which are beyond words.<br />

Many of the victims of super typhoon<br />

Ondoy has a scary experience<br />

to narrate.<br />

While we keep in our imagination<br />

the pictures that invite our deepest<br />

sympathy, and even listen in our<br />

hearts to their desperate cries for<br />

help, the victims ago<strong>ni</strong>zing and angry<br />

complaints at the slowness or<br />

absence of response from Disaster<br />

Preparedness Program, let us see in<br />

this situation a call to everyone for<br />

compassion. If there were no graft<br />

and corruption in our government,<br />

our government would be more prepared<br />

to respond to such crisis.<br />

Typhoon Ondoy’s destructive path<br />

may be the worst flood in more<br />

than half a century. Through the<br />

ravages of nature in the past, the<br />

Filipino sense of compassion, which<br />

we also call “baya<strong>ni</strong>han,” has been<br />

called forth. The pictures we have<br />

seen in the past few days are pictures<br />

of Filipinos responding to the<br />

call for compassion, of people willing<br />

to “suffer with,” people with the<br />

spirit of “baya<strong>ni</strong>han.”<br />

We pray against typhoons, earthquakes,<br />

floods and other natural<br />

calamities. But when they do occur,<br />

the heroism of the Filipino<br />

comes out.<br />

We salute, for example, to that 18-<br />

year old teen-ager, Muelmar<br />

Magallanes, who lost his life after<br />

saving more than a dozen neighbors,<br />

the last of whom was a sixmonth<br />

old baby.<br />

This one heroic example is an inspiration<br />

of our appeal with the CBCP<br />

National Secretariat for Social Action.<br />

The CBCP NASSA has been<br />

mobilized to help with its limited<br />

resources the victims of the flood.<br />

Relief goods have started to be<br />

gathered and distributed to the<br />

flood-affected provinces around<br />

Metro Ma<strong>ni</strong>la. Caritas Ma<strong>ni</strong>la has<br />

started to respond to the flood victims<br />

in Metro Ma<strong>ni</strong>la.<br />

Compassion is drawing many Filipinos<br />

to u<strong>ni</strong>te with their unfortunate<br />

brothers and sisters. Social Action<br />

Centers of other Dioceses may join<br />

the campaign by sending to CBCP<br />

NASSA whatever they may collect.<br />

Profound gratitude to the K<strong>ni</strong>ghts of<br />

Columbus Supreme Council and the<br />

US Bishops’ Conference – Catholic<br />

Relief Services. They were among<br />

the first to respond.<br />

Other Institutions like the RED<br />

CROSS, have also started to respond<br />

to the call for compassion, as we have<br />

seen in GMA network and ABS-CBN<br />

network in the spirit respectively of<br />

“KAPUSO” and “KAPAMILYA.”<br />

We bend our knees in prayer for<br />

salvation against natural calamities,<br />

but when they do come, we are<br />

not so helpless as not to respond<br />

with heroism.<br />

We have said it before and we say<br />

it again “In the Church, no one is<br />

so poor as to have nothing to give,<br />

and no one is so rich as to have<br />

nothing to receive.” We are<br />

humbled by the crises that come to<br />

us. We pray to God and appeal for<br />

our neighbor.<br />

Angel N. Lagdameo, DD<br />

Archbishop of Jaro and President, CBCP<br />

September 29, 2009<br />

DAHLIA CAMINERO, BEC Corner<br />

Ang bugay sang Misyon isa ka “ Daku nga<br />

Bugay sang Paghigugma”. Nga-a ako<br />

nakasiling si<strong>ni</strong> bangod kay amo i<strong>ni</strong> ang akon<br />

nabatyagan sa sulod sang duha ka tuig nga<br />

pagpanglakaton sa misyon sang parokya <strong>ni</strong> Sr.<br />

<strong>San</strong> <strong>Vicente</strong> <strong>Ferrer</strong>. Isa ka Daku nga Bugay<br />

sang Paghigugma sang Dios sa akon, paagi sa<br />

Pagpalangga kag Pag-atipan sang mga tawo<br />

nga nangin pala-agihan agod permi ko nga<br />

mabatyagan nga yara ang Dios naga-upod sa<br />

amon Misyon.<br />

Ang Misyon indi matawag nga isa ka misyon<br />

kon wala sing mga pagtilaw kag mga kabudlayan<br />

nga masugata, ika nga; basta “Misyon may<br />

kaupod nga Konsumisyon”. Apang ina tipik lang<br />

kay sa akon pagpangamuyo kag<br />

pagpamalandong nga ginahimo mas madamo<br />

man gihapon ang nagakatabo nga kaayuhan<br />

sa akon pagpanglakaton. Ang Grasya sang<br />

Dios, siksik, liglig at umaapaw”. Paagi sa inyo<br />

tanan nga nagapati, nagabuylog, nagakooperar<br />

kag nagabulig sa akon sa Misyon i<strong>ni</strong><br />

nagmadinalag-on.<br />

Apang sa pihak nga bahin dira sa akon pagusisa<br />

sang akon kaugalingon may daku nga<br />

nabulig ang mga pagtilaw kag kabudlayan nga<br />

akon nasugata. I<strong>ni</strong> nagdala sa akon nga<br />

nagmangin mapinasensyahon, makapaubos,<br />

nagapamati kag magapamalandong, ga<strong>ni</strong><br />

nagapasalamat ako sa Dios kay sa mga pagtilaw,<br />

Iya ako nga ginpabakod.<br />

Para sa tanan nga mga lideres sang aton<br />

parokya, indi kita magakabalaka sa mga pagtilaw<br />

nga aton nasugata sa pag-alagad sa Dios paagi<br />

sa pagserbisyo sang aton parokya bangod kay<br />

ang Dios kaupod naton. Ang ginakinahanglan<br />

lamang magatuo kag magasalig kita sa Iya<br />

Grasya kag Paghigugma. Ga<strong>ni</strong> aton ihalad sa<br />

Iya ang aton kaugalingon, mga buhat,<br />

kabudlayan kag mga pagtilaw agod kita<br />

magmabakod. Hambal pa, para balanse isipon<br />

man naton ang mga grasya kag kaayuhan kay<br />

mas madamo ina ikomparar sa mga pagtilaw<br />

dira sa aton kabuhi kag mangin positibo kita sa<br />

aton kaugalingon kag sa pagserbisyo sa Dios.<br />

Ga<strong>ni</strong> nagapasalamat ako sa inyo tanan nga mga<br />

lideres sang aton parokya kag sa<br />

May kasugpon... “Salamat...”, sa page 6<br />

<strong>October</strong> 4- <strong>10</strong>, 2009<br />

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