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, March 29, 2010
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Monday, March 22, 2010
CiDE Youth STC
Youths from different organizations met in Saint Theresa’s College (STC), Cebu City for the Circles of Discernment (CiDE) seminar workshop. Twenty seven participants who attended the event last March 22, 2010 came from STC while the others were from the Salesians Youth Movement, and Education students of USC.
The STC youth group has already made series of Voters’ education and seminars to other organizations. With the inputs that they have learned from the CiDE workshop, the group realized to induce the elements of Spirituality and formation of practical conscience to their voters’ education module; since these elements are pivotal components to equip their future participants with the right know-how on the electoral process, and at the same time, equip them with the right mechanism and approach towards discerning for the right political candidates.
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Discernment and Integrity Recollection for Political Candidates (Cebu Province)
Ang maong kalihukan gisalmutan sa mga kandidato gikan sa mga nagkalain-laing partido sama sa Liberal Party ug NP Alayon Party gikan sa siyudad sa Talisay , Bakud Party ug Nacionalista Party gikan sa lungsod sa Carmen, Liberal Party gikan sa lungsod sa Consolacion, One Carmen or PMP sa Carman Party, ug usa ka Independente gikan sa lungsod sa Alegria. Mokabat og setenta (70) ka mga partisipante, apil na niini ang kwarenta y nuebe (49) ka mga lokal nga mga kandidato inubanan sa ilang mga kaubang layko. Ang tumong ug tuyo niining maong kalihukan mao ang pag-umol og “credible candidates” ug “discerning voters” atol sa eleksyon ug sa umaabot pang mga eleksyon.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Vote God
VOTE GOD is a faith-impelled advocacy which hopes to infuse the electoral process with Christian values and for the discerning bloc to muster enough moral courage to choose good over evil, even the lesser evil, during the elections.
VOTE GOD does not seek to endorse any political party or individual candidate but a mechanism for discernment and formation of practical conscience.
Choose the way of GOD.
Photos taken by: Pauline Diola
Venue: Archbishop Palace, Cebu City Philippines
Date: March 10, 2010
Vote God
I must confess I was not exactly comfortable when I first heard the proposed name to our election campaign: “Vote God.” It sounded so out of this world and maybe even escapist. Yet, as the communication expert on the other side of the table handed over a piece of paper with these two words inscribed in it, I saw a man saw serenely convinced about the campaign name.
Then it slowly dawned on me. If Philippine elections and politics, as the Catholic bishops had written in 1997, “systematically exclude” our Christian values, then we indeed need to choose God and the way of God during elections. So: “Vote God.”
My appreciation for this choice has since deepened. These two words capture succinctly where we presently stand as a movement by mirroring where we have been and where we are moving. “Vote God” is about an election initiative with God as choice.
God, for sure, is not running for office and no single individual or even group can claim monopoly of God. But God is in all of us, through an embedded voice in the depths of human hearts. To obey this voice is to choose God and the way of God. The challenge is the many voices competing with this voice. It takes moral and spiritual discernment to sift through these voices; also moral, even spiritual, courage to choose good and reject evil.
“Vote God” takes its cue from the remarks of a woman who had attended the first CiDE (circles of discernment for elections) seminar in a Cebu parish last year. Earlier during the day, she expressed despondency over politicians and elections. Yet, at the end of the day she reversed her view: “We can still do something about elections. Next year, I will ask all the local candidates: ‘Do you have God fearing?’”
Wrong grammar, but correct hope!
*Fr Melo Diola
