Yesterday the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija celebrated a special mass which, for the mean time, was officiated by two reverend fathers from the San Nicolas de Tolentino Parish. The mass was said to be a blessing to other reverend fathers and parishioners who went to Manila to attend the prayer rally. In addition, there is also a banner hanging on the freedom park which calls for a local movement.
According to the priests the rally should be conducted “so that the truth shall be recognized” and the people shall view character as the principal source of change.
I have heard so many prayer rallies done before yet I hope that this time its effectiveness will not result to mob furor (which apparently led to the two previous EDSA revolutions). I fear that many whose chief aim is to spark another revolution utilizes prayer rallies as a first stepping stone in garnering support for an impending people power.
As I have seen there are only a few oppositionists who have attended the recent rallies, and much of them, if not all, are not individuals from the legislative branch. Perhaps the key persons in both Houses realized that despite the urgency of the situation the rule of law and the Constitution must always prevail, and the results of the ZTE probe in the Senate signals the red or green light. I say it is the right thing to do.
Averting due process does not only mean that we are disrespecting the sanctity of the Constitution, but it is also a sign of the surfacing of an ambivalent attitude (i.e. requiring the presence of the law but at the same time repulsive of the enforcement of such law) that threatens the Republic to delving into an anarchic state. France’s unstable republics are the fruit of such ambivalence; she might have been recovered from such state and avoided anarchy, but the Philippines, whose economy relying on foreign investors is the first to be hit by the consequences of any revolution, cannot afford to reinstate the power of the present majority as an executor of justice.
Thus even though the times are beginning to be so rough we should still have faith in the power of the Constitution, for it is the safest entity to turn to in order to prevent the thunderous crash which the economy experienced after the two EDSAs. Although it may look like EDSA is the last resort, it is not the proper time to begin an uprising.
According to the priests the rally should be conducted “so that the truth shall be recognized” and the people shall view character as the principal source of change.
I have heard so many prayer rallies done before yet I hope that this time its effectiveness will not result to mob furor (which apparently led to the two previous EDSA revolutions). I fear that many whose chief aim is to spark another revolution utilizes prayer rallies as a first stepping stone in garnering support for an impending people power.
As I have seen there are only a few oppositionists who have attended the recent rallies, and much of them, if not all, are not individuals from the legislative branch. Perhaps the key persons in both Houses realized that despite the urgency of the situation the rule of law and the Constitution must always prevail, and the results of the ZTE probe in the Senate signals the red or green light. I say it is the right thing to do.
Averting due process does not only mean that we are disrespecting the sanctity of the Constitution, but it is also a sign of the surfacing of an ambivalent attitude (i.e. requiring the presence of the law but at the same time repulsive of the enforcement of such law) that threatens the Republic to delving into an anarchic state. France’s unstable republics are the fruit of such ambivalence; she might have been recovered from such state and avoided anarchy, but the Philippines, whose economy relying on foreign investors is the first to be hit by the consequences of any revolution, cannot afford to reinstate the power of the present majority as an executor of justice.
Thus even though the times are beginning to be so rough we should still have faith in the power of the Constitution, for it is the safest entity to turn to in order to prevent the thunderous crash which the economy experienced after the two EDSAs. Although it may look like EDSA is the last resort, it is not the proper time to begin an uprising.
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