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Pope Francis wants to visit ‘Yolanda’ victimsRoy Lagarde/CBCPNews

By Winston Candido

Pope Francis has expressed his intention to visit the typhoon-ravaged areas in Leyte, a Vati-can official said.

Cardinal Robert Sarah, President of the Pontifical Coun-cil Cor Unum, said the possible visit is for the pope to show con-solation and spiritual closeness to the victims of Super Typhoon Yolanda.

The church official made the announcement on Tuesday during a Mass at the La Libertad Mission Church, in Palo, Leyte, which was badly damaged by the typhoon last November 8.

The pope sent the cardinal to the Philippines to visit the ar-eas struck by the typhoon and to extend more assistance for re-habilitation efforts.

“You go now because I might be going there also,” Car-dinal Sarah quoted the pope as saying in his homily, drawing cheers and applause from the churchgoers.

“I would not tell you the date but the Holy Father has been telling me ‘I might be also going there,’” he said.

It was earlier reported that Pope Francis may go to Daejeon,

South Korea for the Asian Youth Day this August, in what could be his first Asian trip since he was elected pope in March last year.

Palo Archbishop John Du, who was with the cardinal the whole day, is elated over Cardi-nal Sarah’s announcement.

“Of course, we are very happy. People were really clap-ping,” Archbishop Du said, as he asked the faithful to continue praying so that the papal visit will push through.

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Pope: Internet is a gift from God

Bishops discover social media

Sugad hit panahon nga ha iya kamauran, may ada man paghuraw. Amo man liwat an unos han kinabuhi han tawo may pagkawara. Hinay-hinay nga nabalik o binabalik han katawhan han Hernani an nor-mal nga kahimtang o an mga nahiaraan nga mga buruha-ton. Perwisyo nga masisiring an dara ni Yolanda han pipira nga bungto han probinsya. Han Sinirangan Samar lakip an bungto han Hernani ha pagkayana temporaryo nga nagpupuyo an pipira nga mga pamilya ha mga tent, tinatawag ini nga “tent city”. Sugad man an iba nagtikang na bumalhin ha mga bunkhouses puwera la

han iba nga barangay nga may lain nga isyu mahitungod han istraktura o kahimtang hine nga mga bunkhouses. Binalik na an pangisda nga usa nga pakabuhi han mga residente pagkatapos han pira kaadlaw nga waray hunong nga uuran.

Enero sais, dos mil katorse nagtikang an eskwela ha el-ementarya ngan sekondarya. Dara hit kapursigido hine nga mga kabataan nga mag-aram ngan panalimbasog han mga maestro ug maistra nga matagan hin maupay nga pag-aradman an mga kabataan diri nakakabalaong. An kawaray classrooms labi na han iba nga barangay nga dako an perwe-

syo han bagyo Yolanda.An mga opsiyalis han

bungto in padayon nga na-niningkamot matagan hin bu-lig ngan suporta an molopyo han Hernani kabulig an mga Government and Non-Gov-ernment Organization ma ha international ngan national man. Pinaagi han bulig han MSF (Medicines Sans Fron-tiers) pati gihapon han Cash for Work, napadali an pag-limpyo ngan pagkumpuni han Rural Health Unit. Kun aton mahihinumduman, pagkata-pos han bagyo ha municipyo la anay temporaryo nagha-

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A father attends to the dead body of his child at Hernani church during the early morning after typhoon Yolanda severely-hit the town last Nov. 8, 2013. [Photo by: Winston Candido]

A graffiti of Pope Francis can be seen in one of Rome’s streets.[Photo by: Vatican News Agency]

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Internet is ‘gift from God,’ Pope writes in message on social communicationsCatholic World News

US bishops, CRS receive over $50M for aid to typhoon victimsCatholic World News

The media world needs “to recover a certain sense of deliberateness and calm,” Pope Francis writes in his mes-sage for the World Day of Social Commu-nications. In his message the Pope says that the media can bring people closer together, and promote solidarity among the world’s people. But in order to do so, he argues, the media—including social media—must show a genuine respect for the human person.

Pope Francis suggests that the par-able of the Good Samaritan “is also a par-able about communication.” The Samari-tan, he explains, saw the robbers’ victim as a neighbor and formed a relationship with him. That sort of encounter, he said, should be a model for the media.

The opposite approach, in which media outlets view their audiences as anonymous objects to be exploited, den-igrates human dignity, the Pope warned. He said: “Whenever communication is primarily aimed at promoting consump-tion or manipulating others, we are deal-ing with a form of violent aggression like that suffered by the man in the parable, who was beaten by robbers and left abandoned on the road.”

In the two months following Ty-phoon Haiyan, special collections un-dertaken by bishops in the United States have raised “$7.2 million for humanitar-ian relief and church rebuilding and $2.9 million strictly for humanitarian relief,” according to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

In all, Catholic Relief Services, the

The 48th World Day of Social Com-munications is observed by the universal Church on the Sunday before Pentecost: this year, on June 1. The annual obser-vance was instituted by the Second Vati-can Council. The Pope’s message for the occasion is traditionally released on Jan-uary 24, the feast of St. Francis de Sales, the patron saint of journalists.

Opening his message, Pope Fran-cis remarks that the world’s communi-ties have grown closer together in many ways, but unfortunate divisions still exist. “On the global level we see a scandalous gap between the opulence of the wealthy and the utter destitution of the poor,” he says. “We have become so accustomed to these things that they no longer un-settle us.”

Christians should not ignore the needs of their neighbors, the Pope says, and the media can help both to inform us about those needs and to develop “a sense of unity in the human family which can in turn inspire solidarity and serious efforts to ensure a more dignified life for all.”

The internet in particularly offers “immense possibilities for encounter

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hatag hin Health Services an aton wa-ray mga pagkabutlaw nga mga health workers labi nagud an mga nurses nga nagtratrabaho ha ilarum han sinisiring nga RN Heals – usa nga programa han Department of Health kaupod an pipira nga mga volunteers.

An bungto han Hernani in pa-dayon pa nga nakakakarawat hin mga reliefs tikang han magkadurudilain nga mga organisasyon. Pinaagi hine, natatagamtaman han mga tawo an ira mga panginginahanglan ngan nakaka-

bulig gud para makapagtikang pag-papadayon ngan pagtindog han ira tagsa-tagsa nga panginabuhi.

Ine nga krisis nga nahihinabo, na-kapagpabag-o diri la han pisikal nga hitsura han bungto kundi nakapag-pabag-o liwat han ispiritwal nga as-peto nga kinabuhi han tawo. Makasu-subo gud an nahitabo hadto nga adlaw Nobyembre otso tuig dos mil trese. Diri la puruy-anan an nawara kundi lakip an kinabuhi igin-anod han kasina ngan kaisog ni Yolanda.

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and solidarity,” the Pope writes, saying that the enormous potential of electronic communication is “something truly good, a gift from God.”

However the new possibilities cre-ated by digital communications come at a price, the Pope continued. “The speed with which information is communicated exceeds our capacity for reflection and judgment.” The internet, he added, “also enables people to barricade themselves behind sources of information which only confirm their own wishes and ideas, or political and economic interests.”

Finally, he observed that the grow-ing importance of electronic communi-cation causes another potential source of division in society, risking the marginal-ization of “those who for whatever reason lack access to social media run the risk of being left behind.”

Ideally, the Pope says, the inter-net should be “an environment rich in humanity; a network not of wires but of people.” He encourages Christians, es-pecially in the field of communication, to form relationships, to learn about those with whom they are in contact, to listen as well as to speak.

In this way, the Pope writes, commu-nicators can engage in evangelization. Quoting the message the Pope Bene-dict XVI wrote for last year’s World Day of Social Communications, he remarks: “Effective Christian witness is not about

bombarding people with religious messages, but about our willingness to be available to others ‘by patiently and respectfully engaging their ques-tions and their doubts as they advance in their search for the truth and the meaning of human existence.’”

The Pope likens the digital world to “a street teeming with people who are often hurting, men and women looking for salvation or hope.” He urg-es Christians to go out into the streets, to offer sympathy and support. He ac-knowledges that the process will not be painless or easy. But he says: “As I have frequently observed, if a choice has to be made between a bruised Church which goes out to the streets and a Church suffering from self-ab-sorption, I certainly prefer the first.”

At a press conference introduc-ing the papal document to reporters, Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli, the president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, observed that the message is “eminently Fran-ciscan” in its emphasis on the need for the Church to use the means of the ordinary world as instruments of evangelization. The Pope, he said, promotes a vision of “accompanying, of going beyond merely listening: a Church who walks the path alongside us.”

US bishops’ international relief and de-velopment agency, has received “over $50 million in donations, including $27 million from bishops and dioceses.”

The typhoon, the deadliest in the history of the Philippines, left over 1,600 dead and 1,700 missing and caused $1.5 billion in damage.

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Bishops discover social media, post messages on FacebookPB/CBCPNews

President Aquino got a high mark from the victims in his performance after the onslaught of Typhoon Yolanda but a church official’s observation is different.

Palo Archbishop John Du refused to comment on the Social Weather Station survey’s “very good rating” for Aquino, but said many victims gave more credit to the help of non-government groups.

“All I know is that they are always waiting and it is the Church that’s always giving them what they want especially those who would say that they have not re-ceived anything yet,” Du said.

He said that it is the international hu-manitarian agencies and church-based organizations that played major role after the devastation.

“I have observed that it is really the church people, those from foreign agen-cies, non-government organizations and other religious communities who are working very hard in the area,” he said.

According to the latest SWS survey, which was conducted on Dec. 11 to 16, 73 percent of Yolanda victims are satisfied and only 19 percent are dissatisfied of Aquino’s performance.

Among the non-victims, 69 percent of non-victims said they were satisfied while

In what appeared to be the biggest thrill in their life, the Philippine bishops in a workshop navigated the realm of so-cial media, with many posting their first messages on Facebook.

For some there was a bit of appre-hension of not knowing yet what to do at first, only ending up delighted in know-ing that it wasn’t that difficult after all.

“The biggest thrill of doing this is to see the transformation inside and not out-side,” said Vatican Radio director Sean Lovett.

He said he is excited to witness the transformation of the bishops in learning the new media, of seeing their eyes lit-erally light up in excitement in discover-ing that opening a facebook account and posting photos and messages is much easier than they thought.

Lovett, together with Fr. Jerry Mar-tinson, SJ is conducting a seminar-work-shop on Media management and social media for the bishops leading to the CBCP plenary assembly on Jan. 25 to 27.

Exercise of communionLingayen Dagupan Archbishop

Socrates Villegas, CBP president, noted that the seminar workshop was an exer-cise of communion.

“The bishops humbly allowed them-selves to be taught by younger people, by religious who might not be as well trained as they [bishops] are in theology but they are willing to learn from others. I think this should be celebrated as a step towards communion in the Church,” he said.

21 percent dissatisfied with Aquino’s per-formance, for a net satisfaction rating of +48 or “good”.

The Aquino administration was criti-cized earlier for the slow response in de-livering emergency assistance after the typhoon.

“I cannot give a confirmation to what the people in the survey are saying. I do not go into it asking them if they are sat-isfied with the government or not. We are just doing our part,” Du said.

The head of the social action center in the Archdiocese of Capiz, one of the hard-hit areas apart from Leyte, mean-while, could not believe with the result of the survey.

As far as Capiz SAC Director Fr. Mark Granflor is concerned, the presence of lo-cal and foreign NGOs in Capiz province is “overwhelming” compared to the govern-ment.

“When I heard that (survey), I kept on smiling,” Granflor said. “I’m sorry but the people here did not really feel the pres-ence and response of the government dur-ing and after Yolanda.”

“Maybe the respondents of the sur-vey really received enough aid from the government but it’s not the case here in

Members of the Pauline family from the Society of St. Paul, Daughters of St. Paul and the Pious Disciples of the Divine Master helped Lovett and Martinson in facilitating the workshop.

Villegas said having the Religious and seminarians facilitate in the work-shop is also a blessing as it also present-ed “an opportunity for them to let go of their biases, their apprehensions that the bishops are stiff and rigid, so it became an opportunity for warming up of rela-tionships.”

“There is really no substitute to a personal encounter, that it is not just about learning techniques, but the im-portant thing is a personal encounter with each other and encountering Christ in each other, and that is evangelization,” he said.

“Evangelization is Jesus in my heart reaching out to your heart. I think that is a celebration of mutual evangelization,” the prelate furthered.

Villegas, who also has a facebook account that has already garnered 14 thousand likes, said the workshop helped further enhance the appreciation of those who are already using facebook, and for those who are not yet into it have discov-ered the value of social media.

Legazpi Bishop Joel Baylon also said he is very happy about the workshop be-cause it was not only “something that is seen as a youthful activity or something that only young people can get into but each and everyone of us, mainly because of the evangelization value of getting into

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our area,” he said.The priest said the archdiocese’s aid

efforts have now shifted from emergency assistance to recovery and rehabilitation programs to help affected communities return to normal.

“The situation is returning to normal with people trying to work to support their needs but many groups are still helping

with the archdiocese facilitating and coor-dinating the works,” he added.

In Leyte, rehabilitation efforts are also ongoing as the archdiocese tries to pro-vide livelihood for the victims “so they will be able to stand and not just depend on whatever dole outs”.

“We want to help them earn a living,” Du said.

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the world of social media.”For his part, Manila Auxiliary Bishop

Broderick Pabillo, who already has an ex-isting facebook account that has reached its 5000 maximum of friends, discovered another way of expanding his reach in cyberspace by opening a fan page.

“I made the first fan page during this workshop, so it is wonderful that in 10 minutes you can have already 27 friends,” he said.

Having learned also how to upload photos, Pabillo vowed to always accom-pany his posts with images from now on.

“The picture is so powerful and I know how to upload a picture now. So this is something that can be something of help and I resolve to update my facebook account more frequently,” he said.

Passion to use the new mediaLovett observed that although most

bishops have the gadgets, the tablets, the Macbook and all the instruments, many of them also do not have the skills or the desire to use these instruments to their best capability.

But apparently the workshop did not only give them the skills but also fired them up to engage in social networking.

“It’s funny but the reality is that most of the bishops who are not media savvy, who do not have much experience about media came away from the session this morning not only with a greater aware-ness of the medium and not only with the realization that they can do it but the de-sire, the passion to use this new media, the social networking to stay connected

with their young people, especially in-teract with them, and to inspire them in a new way,” he said.

“I have given many seminars to so many bishops, not only in one place in one time, and with such a diversity of age groups and experiences. We have one bishop [this morning] who does not have a cellphone, and by the end of the morn-ing he had a facebook account,” Lovett raved.

Archbishop John Du (left) and Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, president of Catholic Relief Services check damage to the cathedral in Palo, Nov. 17, 2013. [Photo by: CBCPNews]

Cardinal Sarah went around Taclo-ban City and Palo town the whole day, visiting communities and led the distri-bution of relief goods in some badly dev-astated areas.

He also made a quick visit to the Sis-ters of Mercy Hospital, a health facility dedicated to the poor, in Tacloban City and the Sacred Heart Seminary in Palo town.

At the compound of the Archbish-op’s Residence, also in Palo, Cardinal Sarah led the groundbreaking ceremony for the proposed orphanage, clinic and home for the elderly.

Archbishop Du said Cor Unum, an administrative body that serves in the name of the pope for the Church’s chari-table activities, would finance the con-struction of the facilities.

The project will also include, among other things, a small convent for the nuns who will administer the facilities, a cha-pel and a dispensary.

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PRE-HISPANIC RECEPTACLE FOR THE DEAD—Where did the early Esteha-nons place the dead body of their relatives? The standard casket of our forebears was called “lungon,” usually made out of the hardest wood, known as “tugas”, often more durable than the bones it contained. Some-times decorated with carvings, it was hewn out of a single trunk, together with its tight-fitting lid. The cadaver was placed in a sitting position, together the wealth (“bahandi”) he possessed while alive. Children were often placed on earthen vessels, called “tibod.” Those who could afford used glazed earthen jars, made of fine Chinese porcelain, some of which were called “hinalasan” by the natives, because they had snakes or dragons in relief. -------------------------------------------

IS QUINAPONDAN 76 YEARS OLD AS A TOWN? Although the people of Qui-napondan will celebrate tomorrow (Oct 17th) the supposedly 76th year of its existence as a municipality, this is not, however, entirely correct. Many records written before 1900 list Quinapondan among the towns on Sa-mar island. A document, published in 1886,

states that it was one of the “pueblos” (towns) in the southern part of Samar. Another docu-ment, published in 1865, claims the same. A book written in French in 1846 mentions it among the “pueblos” of Samar; it had 1,023 population. A good number of documents in Spanish clearly show that QUINAPONDAN IS MORE THAN A HUNDRED YEARS OLD. Obvi-ously, it was NOT born on October 17, 1946; this date was simply its separation from Bal-angiga with which it was fused in 1903 when the Pulajanes had virtual control of the whole island. But there is not a iota of doubt that Quinapondan was an independent munici-pality before 1903. -------------------------------------------

DID YOU KNOW… that the Catholic school in Eastern Samar that had the shortest life was ST JUDE ACADEMY OF MATARINAO? Located in a private house, it was founded, according to the sources I interviewed, by the Rev Father Mariano Garado in 1959. -----------------------------------

WHAT WAS THE FORMER NAME OF CAN-AVID? As a visita (roughly, barrio or

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In many visible ways, the super typhoon Yolanda was destructive. How-ever, its destruction ushered in many transformations, visible and invisible. It has a transformative effect not only in individual lives but even in the collec-tive subconscious and consciousness of our people as well as in other peoples around the world.

Super typhoon Yolanda has shown us once again that tragedies are av-enues to experience a breakthrough in our minimal and mediocre mental-ity to transcend and go beyond… to become more productive and have a deeper sense of God’s presence in our midst. This is the Paschal Mystery in our present experience. There was a break-through before the Resurrection. After our experience of many kinds of suffer-ing and death brought about by Yolanda

Ma-tolo na ka-bulan an naglabay tikang han umabot hi Yolanda, kundi presko pa kaupay an hinumduman han iya dara nga makalilisang nga destroso. Nadulot gud ini ha mga hunahuna han ngatanan diri la tungod han ka-grabe o kahalu-ag han naalakbatan kundi labi na tungod kay an sugad nga talagsa-on nga ekspery-ensya in naka bay-og ug nakapukan pa ngani hin mga ginkakaptan nga mga seguridad, mga panlantaw, mga inop, ug mga ginlalauman ha kinabuhi.

Tinuod damo an binulig ha aton nga aton igkasi-Estehanon o Pilipino ug damo liwat nga mga tikang ha langyaw nga mga nasud kahuman la han bagyo. Tikang han Yolanda ngada yana, nagin oportunidad an sugad nga kalamidad agud kitaon an mga kaupayan ug pati na liwat mga karat-an han tagsa nga mga kasingkasing han tawo.

Kon kinita an labis nga kamahinatagon, kinita liwat an mga buhat hin kahak-og ug kahalot. Kon kinita an pagburubligay, kinita liwat an kamaki-kalugaringon ug pag-singabot han iba. Kon kinita an kamailobon ug kamaduruto, kinita liwat an kahubya hin pipira ug an pag-abusar han mga iginhahatag nga mga tambulig ha ira.

Sanglit, tinuod nga kinahanglan, diri la tumindog kundi kunta umato liwat— kontra han kawaray paglaum, kawaray pagpaid, kawaray paghingita hin pagbu-lig pagtalwas han aton mga kalugaringon, kawaray pag-ilob…

Siring han Darahonon han mga kalagasan, puydi in usa nga karabaw pagda-nason ngadto han sapa kundi diri hiya mapipirit hin pag-inom… Ngan kon yana nakita kita nga nagbuburublig in damo nga mga tawo agud kita in maka-bangon ngahaw, an pakiana: Magkakamay-ada ba liwat kita kaisog hin pag-ato hadton mga nakaka-ulang han aton pagtindog ngahaw?

“AYAW LA TINDOG, KUNDI ATO!”

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bIsHOp CrIspIN b. VArQUeZ, ddsIMpLe & HUMbLe THOUGHTs

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- physical, emotional, psychological – will come our own resurrection. In fact, we have begun rising…as one family caring for each other, as a people united in God, as a communion of Saints, as a Church .

We have hope. The hope that we regain the support that we give to one another. The external help that we re-ceive and the graces of God given to us are reasons more than enough to move us on... to rise again and look ahead be-lieving that beyond the dark clouds, the sun is brightly shining.

Bangon Estehanon. May ada pa-glaum. Rig-ona an pagtuo ngan pagsalig dida ha Ginoo ngan sarig liwat han imo kapas ngan katakos.

Kaya natin. Kakayanin natin. Sapagkat may Diyos tayo!

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To be a better person!

Defining the laity: “Saintly Heroes”?

Can I refuse to grant a compulsory right of way?

Pork barrel scam. Bungled disaster re-sponse. Leadership fiasco. Bunkhouse con-troversy. Who are involved? Mostly Filipino Catholic laity. So when I first read the CBCP document basically challenging the Filipino Catholic laity to bear in mind that they are “called to be saints” and “sent forth as he-roes”, I said to myself: “No statement could be truer, but no order could be taller! How does one make saintly heroes out of so many who may be inclined otherwise?” To Abra-ham Lincoln’s remark that “God must love the common man; he made lots of them”, I also say that God must likewise love the la-ity since he made them the most numerous in the Church. Still, I submit that for these most numerous members of the Church to find ful-fillment as “saintly heroes” they must heed the advice of the ancient Greeks: “Know thy-self; be thyself; be thy best self.”

One very tragic thing that happened during Super Typhoon Yolanda’s disastrous visit was that many people abandoned re-sponsible behavior because they did not know what a “storm surge” was or what a good parent should be. A mayor in a town called Hernani, south of Eastern Samar’s cen-ter, which is Borongan, told me that a father of a family refused to move his family to a safe location, continued a drinking spree, and dismissed the warnings of “storm surges”. He died and his whole family died with him. Might we not also say that the tragedy behind the Filipino Catholic laity counting corrupt politicians among them who are responsible for the endless scams in the country partly comes from them ignoring or being ignorant of who they are?

So then we must heed the first ancient

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THOUGHT FOr THOUGHTreV. eUTIQUIO ‘eULY’ b. beLIZAr, Jr., sThd

Every start of the year is a fitting moment of thanking the Lord for the many graces and blessings we received the past years, all the joys, trials even problems because they are blessings in disguise. And New year too is an appor-tioned time of promising to ourselves that we try to make ourselves better persons as another number is added to our age, that we are suppose to grow in age and in wisdom. New Year brings promises of a new life, new challenges, new beginning. So, New Year, a new res-olution!

How am I to be a better person? A friend answered, “Just be yourself, no pretensions.” Another said, “Work hard and earn more.” And another said, “Be beautiful always, presentable, sociable and accommodating.” “So it is easy to be a better person. I will be a GRO.” a bystander butt in. Sorry my friends, it isn’t what I mean.

Let me share with you the wisdom

of an old friend who grew old gracefully and left behind, beautiful memories. May she rest in peace. She said : “As we add a year to our lives we must grow to be a better person making wise use of the lessons of life. As the song goes, there are no mistakes only lessons to learn.”

In her advanced age of more than eighty after she celebrated their dia-mond wedding anniversary with her husband, she said, “I am already ful-filled. I am now ready to go.” I asked her, How can I be a better person? How can I grow old gracefully like you?

My old beautiful friend answered, “Forget yourself!” You are not here to be praised, to be served, you are to serve and to live for others.” You can’t be a better person if you will just center your life to yourself . To be a better person, is to live to make others become better persons. The more you give of yourself, the more you become a better person.

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Five brothers, Jose, Pedro, Juan, Berto,

and Tonio inherited a piece of farm land from their uncle. Tonio got the portion that was most isolated from the main road. He went to his brother Berto and asked for a road right of way but he was refused. To preserve the peace within the family, Pedro voluntarily gave Tonio a part of his lot to be used by the latter as his access to the main road. After five years, Tonio demanded again from Berto a right of way, as passing through Berto’s property was the most convenient for him. Again, his request was denied. In his anger, Tonio sued Berto, and the three other brothers took sides.

A quarrel over a right of way is one of the main culprits in breaking good relationships. Indeed, this easement is an abnormal restriction on one’s property rights, hence the normal reluc-tance in giving up what they consider their very own. On the side of the party demanding for the right of way, he or she may be inclined to believe that it is part of his or her Bill of Rights that he or she can have it without sweat.

Under the New Civil Code, a right of way may be a “right” but to be entitled, the one asking for it must satisfy the following precondi-tions:

a. The dominant estate is surrounded by other immovables and has no adequate outlet to a public highway;

b. There is payment of proper indemnity;c. The isolation is not due to the acts of the

proprietor of the dominant estate; andd. The right of way claimed is at the point

least prejudicial to the servient estate; and inso-far as consistent with this rule, where the distance from the dominant estate to a public highway may be the shortest.

In the case above, can Tonio still demand from Berto a right of way on the ground that the one he is using at present is not adequate, as it is not the most convenient for him? The Supreme Court answered this in the negative in the case of COSTABELLA CORPORATION vs. COURT OF

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Greek advice. We ask: “Who are the Laity?” In answer the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church or Lumen Gentium (The Light of the Nations) teaches us: “The term ‘laity’ is…un-derstood to mean all the faithful except those in Holy Orders and those who belong to a religious state approved by the Church. That is, the faithful who by Baptism are incorpo-rated into Christ, are placed in the People of God, and in their own way share the priestly, prophetic and kingly office of Christ, and to the best of their ability carry on the mission of the whole Christian people in the Church and in the world.” It is important for the laity to know their identity because it makes clear to them the things that pertain to or not per-tain to who they are.

What pertains to who the laity are?First, it is having faith in God who re-

vealed himself in Jesus Christ. That is why Lumen Gentium speaks of the laity as “all the faithful” who are neither ordained (they are not bishops, priests and deacons) nor consecrated (they are not religious priests, brothers and nuns). But their having “the faith” is distinguished from other members of the Church in that expressing this faith is not coursed through the Sacrament of Holy Orders and religious consecration. A lay per-son, a priest and a nun have the same faith. But the lay person is not required to express his faith by presiding over Mass and the Sac-raments and preaching the Word, as an or-dained priest is. Nor is he required to strictly

follow the evangelical counsels of chastity, obedience and poverty, as nuns or religious priests and brothers are.

Second, the laity’s faith is inseparable from their having received the Sacrament of Baptism. Faith in Jesus Christ leads to Bap-tism. Baptism seals one’s faith in Jesus Christ, incorporating him into his Body, that is, mak-ing him a vital part of Jesus the Christ. The document Filipino Catholic Laity: Called to be Saints…Sent Forth as Heroes declares: “When you were baptized, the Holy Spirit united you with our Lord Jesus the Son of God, and thus you became true sons and daughters of God, partakers of the divine na-ture” (FCL, 1).

Third, because Baptism makes the la-ity (and all Christians) members of Christ’s Body, they also become sharers in Christ’s threefold mission: Priest, Prophet and King. We need to reflect separately on these three. Suffice it to say that somewhat akin to an aide of a politician eventually sharing that politi-cian’s vision and mission, defining his way of thinking, seeing and acting, so the laity and all the baptized share in Jesus Christ’s three-fold mission and, consequently, must think, see and act the way he thinks, sees and acts.

Isaiah once told God’s People that they must be like their saving God by the way they live, that is to say, by the way they think, see and act. “Thus says the Lord: Observe what is right, do what is just; for my salvation is about to come, my justice about to be revealed.

THOUGHT FOR THOUGHT (from p.5)

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Happy is the man who does this, the son of man who holds to it, who keeps the Sabbath free from profanation, and his hand from any evildoing” (Is 56:1-2). This God who is just, holy and saving is revealed to us in his Son Jesus Christ.

And how does Jesus the Son reveal him-self?

Jesus answers this question him-self in the gospel of John in a way that brings each of us to the core challenge of the laity. He reveals himself by his works, by what he does. Jesus does not excuse himself from the burden of giving testimony. If humans ordinarily play the blame game and buck-passing where a responsibility is at issue, Je-sus does not and neither must we Christians, especially the laity who are “incorporated” to (i.e., “in corpore” or “in the body of”) Je-sus Christ. “Yet I have testimony greater than John’s, namely, the works the Father has given me to accomplish. These very works which I

perform testify on my behalf that the Father has sent me” (Jn 5:36). We all know Jesus preached and preached forcefully, not to say powerfully too. But we know even better that Jesus practiced what he preached. He spoke of love of enemy; he forgave them from the cross. He spoke of himself as the Resurrec-tion and the Life; he showed it when he raised dead people to life. He spoke of love; he practiced it when he died for us “while we were still sinners” (Rom 5:8).

I know some very heroic priests who refused to leave their posts when Super Typhoon Yolanda came and unleashed mas-sive devastation on our land. But I have been struck by so many lay people who, without fanfare and publicity, continue to volunteer to repack food and relief goods, guard them, transport them and make sure they reach their intended destinations, the victims. They show they are the true laity not so much in words as in their deeds. Like Jesus.

United Nations for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), an arm of the United Nations Secretariat which convenes humanitarian agencies in order to answer to emergencies and disasters in suitable man-ner, conducted a coordination meeting with the Diocese of Borongan Communications Group of Yolanda Relief and Rehabilitation, Philippine Information Agency (PIA) of E. Samar, and international organizations such as Internews, Oxfam International and Com-munitere. The objective of the meeting was to ensure collaborative networking of the above agencies in areas of communications as they implement projects in various communities devastated by supertyphoon Yolanda. The meeting was held last January 23, 2014.

Hamish Weatherly, the Communications with Communities Officer of UNOCHA said, “our goal is for people to be well-informed, and to let them know what options are avail-able and how people can manage their lives.”

UNOCHA’s role is to make sure that all key agencies can play a part in responding to the disaster’s aftermath. “Our role is to give support and to see and identify ways in which people can work together to be more effective and to ensure that all needs are met,” Hamish reiterated.

The communications groups agreed to share information and manage information within their respective boundaries using each media platform and to make use of informa-tion gathered from communities involved in Yolanda disaster.

Fr. Neil Tenefrancia, head of the Diocese of Borongan Communications Group of Yolan-da Relief and Rehabilitation said that through the diocese online presence which are www.borongandiocese.org, Facebook account (Di-ocese of Borongan), Este Online Radio, www.estenews.org and ESTE! Newspaper “the dio-cese is responsible to receive, process, pro-duce and publish relevant data about Yolanda to the different clusters and to the public to the parishes and chapels of the diocese of Bo-rongan.”

Fr. Tenefrancia underlined that there is a need to re-mobilize a network of campus jour-nalists to produce news writeups about the victims and survivors of Yolanda to be shared

to the diocesan communications group. Alice Nicart, the Provincial Information

Officer of PIA said that their office is respon-sible for grassroots communications through their media platform and to give information support to government programs.

Nicart said that they are presently visible in social media through the PIA website (www.pia.gov.ph), and Info Board with 700 smart subscribers which they cater to the issues and concerns of Yolanda survivors.

Internews is an international organiza-tion through Radyo Bakdaw FM radio station that broadcasts in Guiuan, E. Samar and also conducts survey as a response to the devasta-tion brought by Yolanda with its goal to pro-vide communications access in order to reach people locally.

Styn Aelbers of Internews said “their role is to close information gap to see right infor-mation are going to communities and to help key players contribute for disaster relief.” He stated that through radio there is dissemina-tion of information for relief and recovery through questions and feedbacks. Internews also can be visited in their website, www.in-ternews.org.

Sam Bloch, the Executive Director of Haiti Communitere (HC) said, “they are being challenged to identify a comment platform or web sharing that all information are shared of and creating a content where information goes to communities and people’s questions are being addressed.” HC which is an inter-national organization observes and evaluates the needs of the Yolanda disaster people and formulate programs in order to address them.

Randy Rimpongan of Oxfam Monitoring Evaluation Accountability and Learning Team said, “we are committed to share information or issues and concerns from community to other humanitarian groups and partners for possible access.”

Oxfam provides free hotline where they accommodate information, issues, feedbacks and concerns on Yolanda disaster humanitar-ian services such as cash transfer program, hygiene promotion, and shelter and also con-duct surveys on Yolanda related matters. One of their challenges is to be informed of the needs of the communities so that they will bet-ter address their relevant concerns.

UN OCHA coordinates key communications groups for Yolanda victims

Vanessa M. Puno

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LEGAL INSIDER...(from p.5)

ANTIGO...(from p.4)

APPEALS when it stated:The convenience of the dominant estate has

never been the gauge for the grant of compul-sory right of way. To be sure, the true standard for the grant of the legal right is “adequacy.” Hence, when there is already an existing adequate outlet from the dominant estate to a public highway, as in this case, even when the said outlet, for one rea-son or another, be inconvenient, the need to open up another servitude is entirely unjustified

Incidentally, can the use of another’s property as a way to the main road for more than thirty years, ripe into the acquisition of a right of way? The answer is still no. The Supreme Court explained in the case of BAPCI vs. OBIAS in this manner:

And under Article 622 of the Civil Code, dis-

continuous easements, whether apparent or not, may be acquired only by title. Unfortunately, peti-tioner Bomedco never acquired any title over the use of the railroad right of way whether by law, donation, testamentary succession or contract. Its use of the right of way, however long, never re-sulted in its acquisition of the easement because, under Article 622, the discontinuous easement of a railroad right of way can only be acquired by title and not by prescription.

*Caveat: This article is for general infor-mation only and NOT a legal advice.

G.R. No. 80511, January 25, 1991, 193 SCRA 333, 341.

G.R. No. 172077, October 9, 2009; citing Bogo-Medellin Milling Co., Inc. v. Court of Appeals, 455 Phil. 285, 2003

barangay), Can-avid was formerly known as MARIA ANGELES. The barrio was placed un-der the patronage of la Virgen Maria, Nuestra Señora de los Angeles (the Virgin Mary,Our Lady of Angels). In a document at the Philip-pine National Archives (PNA), dated 1894, Bo. Maria Angeles had Mariano Lazarra as teni-

ZOA, a Dutch non-government orga-nization intends to stay in the province at least for three years to help “Yolanda” vic-tims here restore their lives.

This was reported in the recently held inter-cluster meeting at the Provincial Di-saster Risk Reduction and Management Council(PDRRMC).

ZOA, leads the five Dutch NGOs as the only one registered in the Philippines. They plan to focus on shelter, education and livelihood hoping to help the victims get back to their normal lives.

Dubbed “REST”, (Restoring Eastern Samar Together), ZOA’s program involves the municipalities of Hernani, Giporlos and Quinapondan, where, for a start, have delivered 232 sacks of certified rice seeds.

At present, ZOA is in the process of consultation regarding the barangays that will be their focus on livelihoods for the next three years.

ZOA is also working on education in

partnership with the Philippine Children’s Ministry Network. Lately, they met the ba-rangay captains of five barangays of Qui-napondan town and discussed the design of five data centers as support to educa-tion on top of books and minor repairs that they will be granting the victims.

The Dutch NGO have recently fin-ished the shelter prototype in barangay Batang, Hernani which is 15.12 sq.meter and is expected to last for three to five years. ZOA’s shelters are better and du-rable, the report said.

It likewise commits to build 100 tran-sitional shelters in Giporlos after they have identified the barangays that are in most need. They are willing to construct 500 shelters in their initial stage but it was learned however that skilled carpenters are rare to find and this constraint the hu-manitarian NGO. Whenever found, every skilled carpenter is paid P380.00 a day.(PIA-Eastern Samar/aen)

Dutch’s ZOA to assist “Yolanda” survivors in three years

Alice Nicart

Amidst the continuous heavy rains brought by Tropical Depression “Agaton”, some road section in the Southern part of the Province were heavily covered with mud and clay coming from the mountains alongside the road.

On January 16, 2014, a report has reached to the DPWH office that the road section approaching Alugan Bridge in San Policarpo was hardly passable due to the presence of thick mud causing the slow movement of traffic. The Maintenance Engineer together with one of his staff im-mediately went to the reported area for

inspection.The Contractor of the on-going re-

pair of Alugan Bridge in San Policarpo was asked for help in the Clearing Operation with the use of their heavy equipment on site.

The Maintenance Engineer thanked the contractor for this favor and the road was immediately cleared from the ob-structions.

Meanwhile, the on-going repair of Alugan Bridge has now posted an eighty percent (80%) accomplishment as of this writing.

E. Samar District Engineering Office quickly repairsdamaged road section in San Poli

Jeymar Grafil

The Provincial Health Office (PHO) administered mass measles vaccination to children in ten affected municipalities by typhoon Yolanda to stop the spread of measles in our province. This was in response after a one year old male child residing at Poblacion Brgy. 4 in Gen. Ma-cArthur was confirmed, on Jan. 3, 2014, to be infected with measles.

Children ages ranging from zero to five year old in ten Yolanda-stricken municipalities which are Balangiga, Bal-angkayan, Hernani, Giporlos, Guiuan, Quinapondan, Lawaan, Mercedes, Salce-do and Gen. MacArthur are being given measles vaccine, oral polio vaccine and Vitamin A supplement according to Tere-sita A. Dala, Nurse III-Expanded Program of Immunization (EPI) Coordinator of the Provincial Health Office.

The provincial health office target number of 13.5 percent of the total popu-lation of children ranging from zero to five year old in the nine Yolanda affected

municipalities are 16,755 children out of 124,110 children.

Seven persons who were considered measles suspected cases by which three are from Oras, two from Quinapondan, one from Hernani and one from Can-avid as well as few adults who have measles in our province according to the provincial health office are being treated immedi-ately.

Concesa Balanga, the Provincial Epi-demiological Surveillance Unit Nurse, said “those who are responsible to stop the measles outbreak are the DOH, Rural Health Unit staff and personnel in the af-fected locality with government’s support and community mobilization especially in cooperating with immunization catch up activities and contact tracing.”

The provincial health office is being tasked to bring to a halt measles which is an airborne viral infection through vacci-nation in E. Samar regularly being done in barangays once a month and in respective municipalities every Wednesday.

Provincial Health Office conducts mass vaccination to pre-vent measles outbreak in E. Samar

Vanessa M. Puno

The World Health Organization (WHO) supports the Department of Health (DOH) in coordination with international, national and local health partners to prevent the spread of diseases and know the trend of diseases on the aftermath of the typhoon Yolanda in Eastern Samar.

Ina Bluemel of World Health Organiza-tion said they are tasked to oversee these several health organizations in alleviating these diseases brought by the typhoon by making sure that there are persons who “fill the gaps” in extending their health services in an organized way “which are to be ad-dressed by them or by other health part-ners.”

Bluemel said “the WHO helps the DOH to identify how to respond to health con-cerns.” Bluemel cited an example in Qui-napondan where a hospital was destroyed which needs rehabilitation and thus, the WHO provided for its funding, program for hygiene and health and technical support.

These gaps in health services are be-ing satiated by international and national organizations such as Operation Blessing, Red Cross, Red Crescent Societies and Doctors Without Borders or Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and by a contingent of nurses from different regions of the Philip-pines.

The WHO which is intending to stay in our province for six months in particular at Provincial Health Office in Borongan and at Guiuan Operation Center, according to Mrs. Concesa Balanga, the Provincial Epi-demiological Surveillance Unit Nurse, the WHO supports the immunization, vaccina-tion, logistics and analysis and surveillance of the DOH.

The WHO supervises the health ser-vices operation of the Provincial Health Office in Borongan and Guiuan Operation

Center headed by Dra. Marian Epefania R. Isiderio and Dra. Jean-Marie A. Egargo re-spectively.

Through the assistance of WHO epide-miologist Dr. Philippa Binns, the provincial health office traces and examines these top five diseases that proliferate after a disaster which are acute respiratory infection, mea-sles, acute hemorrhagic fever, leptospirosis and acute flaccid paralysis.

The provincial health office through the recommended actions of WHO spe-cifically taken from Surveillance in Post Ex-treme Emergencies and Disasters (SPEED) daily summary report and the Philippine Integrated Disease Surveillance and Re-sponse (PIDSR) weekly report which result-ed to the immediate actions of the munici-pal health offices to address these health concerns leads to the prevention of the out-break of the disease. The provincial health office is alert of the situation by which sev-eral persons were infected of measles in Brgy. Naga, Quinapondan where the said office had conducted a mass immunization of all children recently and had conducted contact tracing of the baby infected with measles.

The WHO had distributed water analy-sis kits to determine acute watery diarrhea suspect to cholera to the nine municipalities affected by the typhoon Yolanda. The WHO also assists in the nutrition program of the provincial health office and they are plan-ning to support in the laboratory examina-tion of multi-drug resistant of tuberculosis cases in province as evident in Guiuan to have six persons infected of such disease.

The WHO directs and organizes health organizations and leaders within the United Nations system. It responds to health con-cerns and issues in the world.

WHO supports DOH in directing health partners to combat diseases caused by Yolanda

Vanessa M. Puno

ente (barrio captain). In another document, this time dated 1896, at PNA on Samar, it is re-corded that Maria Angeles had a population of 913. The term CAN-ABID (not, CAN-AVID) appears for the first time in official govern-ment records only in 1903.

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Catechists from different parish organi-zations and faith communities of the Cathe-dral Parish of the Nativity of our Lady were formally commissioned to conduct Sunday Catechetical Schools in their respective as-signed barangays in the City of Borongan. The commissioning ceremony was done in the Cathedral last January 5, 2014 after the eight o’ clock morning mass in celebration of the Solemnity of the Epiphany. It was of-ficiated by Rev. Fr. Leroy R. Geli, Moderator of the Team Ministry of the Cathedral Parish.

According to Fr. Leroy, the purpose of conducting the Sunday Catechetical Schools is to teach and deepen children of our faith, to grow in love and service of God. He further said, “commissioning the catechists is send-ing them to barangays to teach the doctrine

of our church like Jesus sending the 72 dis-ciples to proclaim the Good News.”

Before the commissioning, the parish requested all parish organizations and faith communities to adopt a barangay for cate-chism. To be well equipped, catechists from the groups were trained in the month of No-vember with a well prepared program.

This year-round evangelization program of the parish is a change gear of focus from the infrastructure project of the renovation of the cathedral as it is about to be finished ear-ly this year. This Sunday Catechetical Schools is the first program for 2014 in line with the celebration of the Year of the Laity in prepa-ration for the celebration of the 500 years of the Catholic Faith in the Philippines in 2021.

Borongan parish commissions catechists for Sunday catechetical schools

Sarah Mabansag Puno Catechists from different parish organi-zations and faith communities of the Cathe-dral Parish of the Nativity of our Lady were formally commissioned to conduct Sunday Catechetical Schools in their respective as-signed barangays in the City of Borongan. The commissioning ceremony was done in the Cathedral last January 5, 2014 after the eight o’ clock morning mass in celebration of the Solemnity of the Epiphany. It was of-ficiated by Rev. Fr. Leroy R. Geli, Moderator of the Team Ministry of the Cathedral Parish.

According to Fr. Leroy, the purpose of conducting the Sunday Catechetical Schools is to teach and deepen children of our faith, to grow in love and service of God. He further said, “commissioning the catechists is sending them to barangays to teach the doctrine of our church like Jesus

sending the 72 disciples to proclaim the Good News.”

Before the commissioning, the par-ish requested all parish organizations and faith communities to adopt a barangay for catechism. To be well equipped, catechists from the groups were trained in the month of November with a well prepared program.

This year-round evangelization pro-gram of the parish is a change gear of focus from the infrastructure project of the renova-tion of the cathedral as it is about to be fin-ished early this year. This Sunday Catecheti-cal Schools is the first program for 2014 in line with the celebration of the Year of the Laity in preparation for the celebration of the 500 years of the Catholic Faith in the Philippines in 2021.

SJN celebrates feast day in sympathy for Yolanda survivors

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BORONGAN BRANCH

Greetings from

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A blessed feast day of Sto. Niño 2014

Mr. & Mrs. Rolly Gerna & Children

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Yolanda is a name that will be immortal-ized in the annals of Waray history. It brought devastation and despair to the twin islands of Samar and Leyte. Millions of people ex-perienced the worst calamity of their lives. Thousands were killed. Many more lost their homes. Yet within these numbers are people and with them are their experiences. Amidst the multitude is the individual. These are their stories.

Saklay. Kuya Freddie was a diabetic whose right leg had been amputated one year before the storm. He cannot walk with-out his crutches. Yolanda not only destroyed his house but disrupted his main source of

“Please tell my family that I’m fine”: On November 26th 2013 the first text message arriving in the studio of Radyo Bakdaw was sent by a woman from Tubabao, an island close to Guiuan.

After typhoon Yolanda has passed through the region, Guiuan and other mu-nicipalities in Eastern Samar experienced a complete information black out, with no phone network, TV, newspapers or radio be-ing available. Up to today, Radyo Bakdaw is the only radio station on the FM-band and the only media-house permanently based in region.

Today, Radyo Bakdaw (“Rise” in the lo-cal language) receives around 500 text mes-sages a day (with peaks of over 1200 texts). Some texts are practical questions about on-going relief operations in the region, some ventilate frustration and others again show appreciation or a request to play a favourite song.

Based on these questions from listen-ers, Radyo Bakdaw looks for much needed answers and useful information among in-ternational agencies and local government, collected and presented by local presenters who, with support from Internews, have trans-formed themselves into “human reporters”.

One day the head of UNOCHA opera-tions John Ging is telling listeners that ‘com-munication is like a light’. Another day a scrap metal collector is on air because he donated a wheel chair to another listener in-stead of selling it ‘because even though we’re

income as well. For several weeks his only means of survival was the food doled out to him by the parish. Nevertheless, despite his handicap Kuya Freddie never became a bur-den, in fact he even volunteered to help in the relief distribution of the parish. Being dis-abled did not hinder him from aiding those in who were in need.

Replant. Recover. In Giporlos, there was an elderly couple whose dilapidated shack was amazingly able to survive the typhoon. When interviewed, they talked about the losses that they had incurred- almost 4 hect-ares of coconut land was leveled by the ty-phoon. When asked about these losses, the

poor we can still help each other’.To help replace damaged and broken

radios by the storm, Internews has distribut-ed 200 solar radios among community halls and other public places and has turned every Sunday into “Radio Repair Day”, with two lo-cal technicians doing magic with a few wires and soldering iron.

From a total communication and infor-mation black out, Guiuan has built a new platform for communication with the support of Internews and is making their voice heard.

“Good Mooooorning Guiuaaaaaan’ from behind the mic of the best and only ra-dio in Guiuan.

HR..infonewsletter from 15 January 2014Also available at https://philippines

.humanitarianresponse.info/blog

Yolanda Perspectives

Wilfredo S. Garinga Jr.

Radyo Bakdaw – Helping you to help each other

A grace-filled Feast of

Black Nazarene 2014

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lolo who looked almost octogenarian simply shrugged and said “an ak plano magtanum nala liwat hin lubi ngan ha ilaom, mga utan.” Despite his tremendous loss and advanced age, he had no doubt that those plants he planted will one day grow and bear fruit. The old man from Giporlos never lost his hope for the future.

Relief. A student of the DCA (Divine Child Academy) joked about having re-ceived half a dozen water cans from various aid agencies. Another joked that their canned goods, rice, toothpaste and other supplies would be enough to fill a small sari-sari store. A teacher even quipped that their bar soaps

from the relief would last 2 months or more. If anyone could call Yolanda a blessing it would be because after the storm, many previously expensive things are now freely given.

Love Life. Nico and Marie were volun-teers in an aid organization. The relief effort brought them together. They became part-ners in the surveys, FGDs and relief distri-bution conducted by the agency. Little did they know that this would also make them partners in the matters of the heart. Yolanda brought heartache to hundreds of thousands, but for these two young people it gave them the experience of love. An experience that they will never forget in their lifetime.

Balikbalay (from p.5)

PAHIBARO TIKANG HA OPISINA HAN PHILIPPINE COCONUT AUTHORITY

PARA HAN MGA MAG-URUMA HIN LUBI

Iguin papasabot han opisina han Philippine Coconut Authority ngadto han mga mag-uruma hin lubi nga an opisina andam na maghatag hin

tumos o sad-ay nga lubi para igliwan han mga natumba o nadistroso han kalamidad nga Super Typhoon Yolanda.

An uma nga pagtatamnan han bag-o nga tumos kinahanglan malimpyo na san-o kumuha han taramnum ha PCA Regional Office Government

Center Palo, Leyte.

An usa ka ektarya nga taramnan hin lubi masulod hini nga sumusunod:

•100 ka sad-ay ha lugar nga 5 kilometers tikang ha pangpang han dagat (inland areas)•192 ka sad-ay ha lugar nga harani han dagat (coastal areas)

An pagtanum han tumos kinahnglan masunod han mga teknolohiya han paglubihan rekomendado han PCA nga masunod:

• Pagpili han lugar nga taramnan• Pag-andam han lugar• Pag-usok ngan pagsukol• Pagbuho han tuna nga taramnan• Pagtanom han tumos• Pagmangno han mga bata pa nga tanom

Para han dugang nga mga kasayuran pakigkita han PCA Agriculturist ha munisipyo han iyo mga lugar o han opisina han PCA Regional Office,

Government Center Palo, Leyte pinaagi han pagdumara niRegional Manager EDILBERTP V. NIEVERA.

And our nearest others are our loved ones in our families.

If all members of families have generous heart for their nearest oth-ers then all families will surely enjoy the true sweetness of a home. And we could say, let me borrow Bishops Crispin’s “ Kahit nasa lupa ay langit na rin.”

So to be a better person every year as we journey through life towards per-fection until we can say, I am ready to go,

or to meet my Creator is to be like Jesus. He came to serve not to be served, to bring light to those in darkness and to bring hope to the hopeless.

To be a better person is to live for others! Mahirap pala! pero pos-sible with the LORD, with the guidance and strength of the Holy Spirit and the powerful intercession of Mama Mary. A blessed 2014 for all and our respective families!

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Mr. Antonio and Rebecca CampomanesMr. Arnulfo and Doris CajegasMr. Celso and Thelma Tabayo-cyocMr. Edgardo E. JuabanMr. Marvie TanauanMr. Patrocinia CanitesMr. Pudente and Felicing BaleñaMrs. Beatriz EgargoMrs. Concordia Luma-inMrs. Epifania de VeyraMrs. Eva A. DiazMrs. Gregoria CalumpianoMrs. Mary Grace Soraya DuranMrs. Myrna Isaig and FamilyMrs. Rosemarie B. AmistosoMs. Lilibeth A. BarisMs. Megan MolinaSenior Citizen Association of Dolores Virginia DalinaYolanda Tiozon

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“Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn,

so that we see ourselves as we really are.” - Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

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Sunrise at Baybay BoulevardBorongan City

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