October 4- 10, 2009.pmd - Parokya ni San Vicente Ferrer ...
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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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