Takbo Maharlika Run ends

Rejoice with us in praising God! At 7Am today Takbo Maharlika team reached Zamboanga City Port ending a 7 month run of 2,387 km (83% of Maharlika highway allowed to TM) covering 11 regions, 30 provinces, 13 chartered cities outside Metro Manila with EDSA from Valenzuela to Muntinlupa.

Visit to Fuente Street Kids

A fun afternoon with our friends in Fuente. :) Enjoy your weekend! :)

Takbo Maharlika in Cebu

TM's Cebu Run with the CPNP. A run jived with PDG Nicanor Bartolome's call to Bishop Joe Palma. About 500 PNP, AFP and civilian runners started at 3 different ppints merging at the finish line, the Mandaue Sports Center.

Monday, February 18, 2008

MASS FOR TRUTH @ REDEMPTORIST CHURCH


A CALL TO CHOOSE THE WAY OF TRUTH




A signature campaign that allows people in parishes, schools, and other Church institutions to affix their signatures. This has the following advantages:
  • Each signature is a potential vote. This is the language politicians understands.
  • Each signature recognizes the dignity of the petitioner. He or she is not just a nameless, faceless, and anonymous member of the crowd.
  • The issue(s) being addressed is (are) specific and focused.
  • They are addressed to specific public servants whom we want to influence in a particular way.
  • The campaign signifies an educational effort towards the formation of conscience.
The current crisis sparked by the testimony of Mr. Jun Lozada and other whistleblower runs the risk of being personality oriented. Focus should be on the issue of massive and systematic corruption in our political system, although our public servants do not have a monopoly on this social malaise. We are all in this together, as part of the problem and part of the solution. This is not to say that whistleblowers should just be left to their own devices.

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Tuesday, February 12, 2008

MASS FOR THE SEARCH FOR TRUTH


Dear Friend:


The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) recently connected the search for truth with communal action in the face of the Senate inquiry involving Rodolfo Lozada Jr.

The CBCP statement points out: “Truth hurts. Truth liberates. But the truth must be served. The truth will set our country free (John 8:32).” His Eminence, Ricardo J. Cardinal Vidal of Cebu echoed this call by appealing to “let the truth come out whatever it is or whoever will be hurt, but the truth must come out.”

Dilaab (a volunteer-driven, faith-impelled, Church-based movement promoting heroic Christian citizenship) supports such call. We believe that the very search for truth already liberates.

Join us then for a Mass for the Search for Truth to be held at the Redemptorist Church on Monday, 18 February 2008 at 7:00 pm. All meaningful action begins with and is informed by prayer. This non-partisan gathering invites all men and women of faith and good will to join in one accord in a cry for truth, justice, and solidarity for an emerging nation.


FR. CARMELO O. DIOLA
Overall Coordinating Steward