Street protests due to ABS-CBN shutdown take place at time of dream: dream confirmed?

Filipinos make noise nationwide to protest ABS-CBN shutdown

JUL 19, 2020 9:28 PM PHT

Echoing calls to defend press freedom, Filipinos from various parts of the country refused to stay silent as they took to the streets on Saturday, July 18, to protest the shutdown of ABS-CBN.

From Cebu to Subic, noise barrages sprouted nationwide on Saturday, nearly a week after the House of Representatives rejected the network's franchise renewal.

The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) encouraged even those at home to participate online to show their indignation.

In Metro Manila, enraged supporters and employees of the shuttered network held a noise barrage and motorcade that passed through several cities before ending up at the ABS-CBN compound in Quezon City.

Several of the network's biggest stars, including actress Angel Locsin, also joined the protest to urge others to speak out on the ABS-CBN shutdown.

Meanwhile, Subic-based journalists and NUJP members wore shirts with messages such as "Defend press freedom" and "Stop the media attacks" as they staged a lightning rally in front of the Inang Laya Monument at Subic Bay Freeport.

In Mandaue City, various ABS-CBN employees and supporters lamented during a noise barrage in front of the ABS-CBN Cebu headquarters the huge loss of jobs for Filipinos who are already struggling in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic.

The rejection of the franchise renewal has pushed the shuttered network to implement a retrenchment program and shut down all its regional stations. By August 31, these stations will no longer be airing programs. The layoffs will also take effect on the same day.

"We're very sad and very disappointed with this government. They had no shame in telling us to sell ourselves or even kneel to them," TV Patrol Central Visayas anchor Leo Lastimosa said in a mix of Cebuano and English. "We have workers, elderly, who have kids, who have loans, and duties at home. Nothing is sure of what will happen to them after August 31."

Many of the workers of the regional station were seen sobbing and mourning "the loss of press freedom," while others continued to beat their instruments louder in anger against the Duterte administration.

"We were crying [in the office] with some of our workmates. We can’t even hug each other because of COVID," DJ Chixie of MOR Cebu 97.1 said. "Anxiety kicked in since May 5. I hope everyone understands why we're feeling this way. People will tell us to move on but now is not the time for that."

The same sentiments were echoed by reporter Joworski Alipon during his live speech.

"It's not easy looking for a job, especially when half of your life you grew up in service here. This is what you're used to. This gave you income for the longest time and why? Because the company cared. Which is why we never left," Alipon said.

"Even if the infrastructure closes, our service continues. Our Kapamilya spirit lives on."

In Bacolod City, concerned citizens occupied major thoroughfares to show their support for ABS-CBN.

Around 100 vehicles passed along 26th Lacson Street, where the ABS-CBN Bacolod Broadcasting Complex is located, for a noise barrage, motorcade, and solidarity rally.

Drivers honked in support while passengers waved their hands and clenched their fists in the air. They were greeted by cheers from more than 100 street protesters, who mobilized in front of the local TV station for the solidarity rally late Saturday afternoon.

Journalists, the youth, and cause-oriented groups joined the rally, along with ABS-CBN workers.

For ABS-CBN Bacolod, its 81 workers will lose their jobs by the end of August.

"This is our fate," said Romeo Subaldo, ABS-CBN Bacolod news chief. "Pila kami kabulan gina torture adlaw-adlaw. Subong na semana nabatian namon ang pinakamalain na balita sa kabuhi namon, na wala na kami trabaho habang gapadayon ang pandemic. Maano kami?"

(In the past months, we were tortured every day. This week, we heard the worst news in our lives: that we will lose our jobs while there is still a pandemic. What will happen to us?)

General Alliance of Workers Association secretary-general Wennie Sancho called the 70 lawmakers who voted to reject ABS-CBN's franchise renewal "legistraitors" and blamed them for being behind "terrible labor oppression."

"It is a treachery to the cause of the workers because the employees of ABS-CBN were humiliated, oppressed, and impoverished as a result of the franchise denial," he said.

Prior to the noise barrage and motorcade, the Diocese of Bacolod held a "Rosary for Democracy" to show support for ABS-CBN.

Bacolod Bishop Patricio Buzon, who read the official statement of the diocese, said the denial of ABS-CBN's franchise application has silenced a major source of information for the people and compromised their constitutionally guaranteed right to information on matters of public concern.

With the shutdown, many towns which have nonexistent or unreliable internet will be losing a major source of information and entertainment during the pandemic.

"The diocese is convinced that our democracy is being imperiled. If left unchallenged, our country can retrogress to tyrannical rule," the bishop said.

Buzon reminded elected representatives that they are duty-bound to uphold and protect the rights of the people and secure the common good of the nation.

"We have been through the dark cruel days of tyranny. If we stand and speak up now, our children do not have to go through it," he said.

source: Rappler

The Blogger's Note: Is the dream I had on first August of 2020 confirmed by the preceding news article?

I did not cast my vote for the former Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte in the presidential race in 2016 but I do not believe in ousting any presidents through any means particularly people-powered coup d'etat. Let elected officials finish their terms and let us decide on their political fate in the next elections.

The plan to stage a coup last year to oust President Duterte was preempted by the government and military! The coup players initially mobilized street demonstrations and protests but failed to bring it up to a full-blown coup. As expected, the current administration is determined (symbolically represented in the dream by "human chain," "jet fighter plane" and "missile") to quash any coup attempt by its political nemesis.

The only street demonstrations that took place last year at the time I had the dream were due to TV network shutdown and the newly-signed Republic Act No. 11479 or commonly known as  "Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020" that was strongly opposed by left-leaning blocs. The TV network shutdown, the Anti-Terrorism Act and extra-judicial killings in the fight against illegal drugs were attributed to the so-called "sleight of hand" of the President.

Dream prophecy fulfilled: 'explosion at the park,' 'night market bomb blast'?

At least 14 dead in night market bomb blast in Davao

Raul Dancel

Philippines Correspondent

PUBLISHED SEP 2, 2016, 11:59 PM SGT

MANILA - At least 14 people were killed, and dozens injured after an explosion rocked a popular night market in Davao, southern home city of President Rodrigo Duterte, say officials.

It was later said to have been caused by a bomb. “Initial investigations show they found shrapnel from a mortar-based improvised explosive device,” presidential communications secretary Martin Andanar told DZMM radio, according to AFP.

The blast tore through a street market outside the high-end Marco Polo hotel, a frequent haunt of Duterte, who was in the southern city of Davao at the time but was not hurt.

“We were having a meeting and we heard a very huge explosion. The first thing we thought was ‘it’s a bomb’,” said John Rhyl Sialmo III, 20, a student at the nearby Ateneo de Davao University. “The area where there was the explosion was a massage parlour. So we saw these men and women from that place in their uniform, they went to the school lobby to seek help. They were soaked in blood.”

Earlier, in an interview with CNN Philippines, the president's spokesman Ernesto Abella said at least 10 people were killed and 60 injured when the explosion happened at around 10.20pm on Friday (Sept 2).

Acting Davao Mayor Paolo Duterte, Mr Duterte’s son, also later confirmed that “there are at least 10 people who perished” - five men and five women, including three masseuses. Police later said two of at least 30 people taken to hospital had since died, bringing the toll to 12.

“Right now we cannot yet give definite answer to questions as to who is behind this, as we are also trying to determine what really exploded,” Mayor Duterte said in a post on the city government’s Facebook page.

He told reporters that he received a threat of an attack on Davao city from an unidentified source two days ago.

Mr Duterte, 71, who was in Davao preparing for his trip to Brunei on Sunday, was reported to have arrived at the scene.

Investigators on the scene declined to speculate if it was a bomb. There were reports that it could have been liquid petroleum gas explosion, but witnesses said the blast was too powerful for that.

"We were sitting in front of the scene. I first saw smoke, and we thought it was from a barbecue stand. Then a few minutes later, there was a big blast," Mr Janoz Laguihon, a witness, told CNN Philippines.

Another witness, Mr Donn Catre, recounted: : "There was a shockwave. A lot of people were really crying. You can hear the screams. I saw a girl’s leg bloodied, probably shattered."

There were unconfirmed reports of a second bomb.

Regional police chief Manuel Guerlan said a ring of checkpoints had been thrown around the city’s exit points. “A thorough investigation is being conducted to determine the cause of the explosion,” he said. “We call on all the people to be vigilant at all times.” 

Presidential spokesman Mr Abella discouraged speculation as to the cause of the explosion.

“Nothing specific… There’s no specific cause or reason at this stage that we can say,” he said.

Days earlier, security officials warned that the terrorist group Abu Sayyaf could launch attacks across the Philippines to divert military operations in their stronghold in Sulu province, 1,000km south of the capital Manila.

Mr Herbert Bautista, mayor of Quezon City, metropolitan Manila’s largest district, ordered police to go on heightened alert, set up security checkpoints and secure vital installations following the Davao incident.

Among the key facilities in the city are the House of Representatives and the National Power Corp.

President Duterte is hugely popular in Davao, having served as its mayor for more than 22 years before his stunning national election win in May, garnered from the popularity of a promised war on drugs. His election has prompted a spike in drug-related killings, with more than 2,000 people killed since he took office on June 30, nearly half of them in police operations.

Duterte has typically spent his weekends in Davao, in the far south of the archipelago nation, since taking office, so his presence there on a Friday was not unusual and he had given a televised news conference earlier in the day.

Davao is located in Mindanao, a large southern island beset by decades of Muslim insurgency. However, Davao itself is largely peaceful and Duterte has been credited with transforming it from a lawless town to a southern commercial hub for call centres and offshore business processing services.

Duterte had earlier on Friday shrugged off rumours of a plot to assassinate him, saying such threats were to be expected.

Asked on Thursday about the same rumour, presidential spokesman, Abella described Duterte as heroic and said: "He eats that for breakfast, it's not something new to him."

source: straitstimes

The Blogger's Note: The first scene I saw in the dream was the stage of the Rizal Park, the "landmarks" I was referring to in the blog post of 2013. The next scene, the Rizal Park stage was no longer depicted but only the pavement. I could tell the pavement belonged to Rizal Park's because of the square partition lines that I saw on the ground in the dream that was also present in reality. But why on earth the explosion did not happen on the ground of the Rizal Park -- but on the ground of the night market of Roxas Avenue? Remember that the explosion happened particularly in the open-air "massage parlour," as the preceding news article reported, of the night market. It can be seen that the ground of the night market also has had partitions as markers for the tenants' stalls. Going back to the ground of the Rizal Park, it can be remembered that massage chairs similar to those of the Roxas Night Market were likewise displayed for service customers and situated fronting the stage of the park. It can, therefore, be concluded that the original plan of the perpetrators was to make the explosion happen in the massage area of the park but the perpetrators could hardly do it in the park area because of the "adeptness" of the soldiers particularly the SWAT team assigned securing the heart of the San Pedro area. Was it the reason why the perpetrators execute the explosion in the less guarded massage area of the Roxas Night Market?

Dream prophecy fulfilled: P250M lost in economy due to stalled aircraft on Davao runway

Davao City to sue airport, won't charge Cebu Pacific

Louis Bacani (The Philippine Star) - June 5, 2013 - 10:43am

MANILA, Philippines - Around P250 million pesos was lost in local businesses due to the stalling of a Cebu Pacific aircraft on the runway of the Davao International Airport, which disrupted flight schedules and stranded thousands of passengers.

Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte this "conservative estimate" of losses to the the local economy is as of 5 p.m. on Tuesday, nearly two days after the Airbus 320 jet overshot the runway of the airport.

"This is the total losses for everything already," Duterte said in a television interview on Wednesday morning.

"We cannot actually give value to the inconvenience this caused to the passengers also," she added.

Due to the mishap, Duterte said they are planning to file charges against the Davao International Airport which she claims "did not do anything when the accident happened."

"We are planning to file administrative charges against the management and employees of the Davao International Airport... We're collating the documents right now. We plan to [file the charges] by Monday next week," said Duterte.

The Davao mayor said those to be charged include the airport manager down to the employees on duty on Sunday night when the Cebu Pacific was stalled.

She said they would not file charges against the airline.

At about 7:05 p.m. Sunday, the Cebu Pacific aircraft missed runway 23 upon landing in Davao City. It reportedly skidded and veered to the right side toward a grassy portion in front of the main terminal.

All 165 passengers, including the pilot, co-pilot and four crew, were not hurt.

On Tuesday, the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) gave Cebu Pacific a 3 p.m. deadline to remove the stalled aircraft. It was extracted from the runway around 8 p.m.

More than 3,000 passengers were stranded on Monday after the incident shut down the Davao airport.

The CAAP said initial findings point out pilot error as the likely cause of the plane mishap.

"There is a saying that evidence does not lie. We have now evidence that points to possible human factor. In other words, [it] may be pilot error," CAAP Deputy Director General John Andrews said in a press briefing on Tuesday.

He said these findings will be confirmed later on when the plane's flight data recorder is sent to Singapore for investigation.

Malacañang has urged airline companies in the country to take the necessary steps to assure that the recent mishap would not happen again.

"We are a bit concerned about that. What's important for us is to determine the cause of the accident and to take steps to prevent that from happening again," said Presidential Communications Development and Strategic Planning Office Secretary Ricky Carandang.

source: philstar

The Blogger's Note: Is the dream of gray and white I had in 2011 a prophecy fulfilled in the preceding news article published in 2013? The amount of the economic losses could have been higher should have the ill-fated Airbus 320 jet been left stalled longer on the runway. Moreso, when the "airplane explosion" part of the dream had not been thwarted!

'Airplane explosion' thwarted: 'inflated plane,' airline's logo?

Cebu Pacific plane overshoots Davao airport runway

JUN 3, 2013 12:40 AM PHT

KARLOS MANLUPIG

DAVAO CITY, Philippines (UPDATED) - A Cebu Pacific plane carrying 165 passengers overshot the runway of the Francisco Bangoy International Airport in Davao City on Sunday evening, June 2.

Col Leopoldo Galon, chief of the military's 5th Civil Relations Group, said flight 5J 971 from Manila overran the runway and hit its uncemented portion at around 7:10 pm.

Galon said no one was hurt in the incident, which happened during heavy rain.

A passenger, Jun Narciso, told Rappler that one of the plane’s engines was already on fire before landing.

“The landing was very sudden and the pilot immediately braked. The pilot also immediately turned off the plane’s engine,” Narciso said.

Luckily, he added, the heavy rain extinguished the fire.

Another passenger, Laiza Lacida, however claimed the engine was not on fire before landing. "We can smell smoke inside the plane but the plane was not on fire," she said.

Cebu Pacific Air said in an advisory that the plane landed safely but “veered off to the right side of the Davao International Airport runway during a heavy downpour.”

“All 165 passengers have been safely shuttled to the airport terminal and their needs are being taken care of,” the airline company said.

Passengers said they were irked, not just because of the incident, but also because of poor response from the airport and the airline company personnel.

“The rescue team only arrived 15 minutes after the incident,” Narciso said.

Narciso added that the cabin crew refused to open the plane's door and failed to explain to the passengers what was happening.

“After 15 minutes, the pilot went out of the cockpit and explained that the problem was caused by the plane’s wiper,” Narciso narrated.

Other passengers claimed that the responding units were not prepared and lacked proper equipment.

Most of the passengers had to walk almost a kilometer just to reach the arrival section of the airport without any personnel from Cebu Pacific offering assistance or even comfort, one passenger commented.

The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines at the Francisco Bangoy International Airport refused to provide any information regarding the incident.

Due to the incident, all other flights are temporarily cancelled as of posting.

source: Rappler 

The Blogger's Note: June 2, 2013 Sunday morning -- I lived half a kilometer away from Davao Airport in Buhangin when one of the Cebu Pacific airbuses was seen shooting up to the sky after take-off. Seeing the airbus ascending diagonally, in my heart I heard a whisper that said: "Now is the time!" I had an understanding it was referring to the "airplane explosion" dream I wrote in 2012. I whispered a prayer to get rid of my worries on the matter.

Late afternoon -- I walked my way towards an SSPX church near Cabantian, Buhangin to attend a 6:00 p.m. Traditional Latin Mass as it was Sunday. If I could remember right, it was the time when the celebrant was incensing the altar that power suddenly came off! The Mass continued without interruption despite the outage. Was the blackout happened when touchdown was in progress? The airbus runway mishap took place during the Traditional Latin Mass being officiated and I was attending. Was the Traditional Latin Mass instrumental to thwarting the "airplane explosion"?

Dream confirmed: The 'cardinal wearing papal vestments' is 'cardinal dressed in white'?

Judge Giorgianni: Benedict XVI never abdicated, Bergoglio is a cardinal dressed in white

Interview by Andrea Cionci

Now we can speak openly of the New World Order: the concept is no longer under embargo

AUTHORIZED ENGLISH TRANSLATION of the Original Italian linked under the above image. [Copied as is. --Blogger]

“There is only one pope, Benedict XVI. Bergoglio is a cardinal dressed in white, an accomplice of the New World Order” — the well-known anti-Mafia magistrate Angelo Giorgianni, former Under-Secretary of Ministry of Justice & Pardon of the Prodi government, said briefly in a public speech in Messina two days ago.

Naturally, he made these statements not in his institutional capacity, but as president of the “World Life Organization,” a voluntary association he founded, which is concerned with the defense of human life and all the rights that pertain to his. protection and dignity paying particular attention to the various individual freedoms not always guaranteed, such as that of opinion, freedom, thought, worship and the sacredness of human life from the moment of conception to the natural end.

Cionci: Dear Doctor, after the lawyer Taormina HERE, you are the second secular and Italian lawyer to raise doubts about the abdication of Pope Ratzinger …

Giorgianni: I have followed this story and I am absolutely convinced that Benedict XVI has drawn up an act of renunciation of the papacy that is completely null and void: a real “cocktail” of legal invalidity made to be discovered over time. Just to quote the best known: in the Declaratio of 2013 he renounces, instead of the Petrine munus, it is the ministerium – or the practical exercise of power – which does not involve renouncing the papacy: at most it could mean the delegation to some bishop of some functions practices. The trivial Latin errors in the document, coming from a refined Latinist like him, are obviously a way to keep attention on the legal act.

Not to mention his conduct over the next eight years; just remember how he always repeats “the pope is one” without ever declaring which of the two he is, or the unequivocal phrases that have recently emerged from his interview books such as ” has been discharged in the last thousand years ”.

Cionci: Aren’t you afraid of being considered a “conspiracy theorist”?

Giorgianni: Look, I – for work – have foiled conspiracies for a lifetime. Conspiracy is when bold theories are built without these being based on facts. In the judicial field, on the other hand, a unique series of clues constitute proof and here, there is an even excessive amount of clear clues, verifiable by anyone.

Cionci: Why do you say that Bergoglio is a cardinal dressed in white?

Giorgianni: Because if pope Ratzinger did not abdicate the throne, as evident, the conclave of 2013 was completely invalid and elected a cardinal who remains a cardinal. So Bergoglio is an anti-pope, as there have been so many in the history of the Church.

Cionci: A burning issue, but it doesn’t seem to upset the clergy too much …

Giorgianni: It is very serious in fact. Some clergymen fear being excommunicated (but the excommunication of an anti-pope is worth nothing), others think that, at the resignation or death of card. Bergoglio, a new conclave can put things right. But if the college of cardinals has 80 new cardinals appointed by Bergoglio, they are not true cardinals and therefore do not have the right to elect a new pope. Therefore the succession line after Francis would be all composed of anti-popes. History demonstrates this: in the first half of the 12th century, the anti-pope Anacleto II reigned for eight years and, upon his death, he was succeeded by Victor IV, another anti-pope, until Saint Bernard of Clairvaux ousted the latter by restoring a papal succession line legitimate.

Cionci: Orthodox Catholics continually complain about Francis’ reforms. Now they fear for the Latin Mass (“vetus ordo”), given that Bergoglio seems to want to limit his celebration by revoking Benedict XVI’s motu proprio “Summorum Pontificum”.

Giorgianni: And what are they astonished at? The Holy Spirit assists the pope not only on those rare times when he pronounces ex-cathedra on important dogmas of faith. There is a specific article in the Catechism, 892, which speaks of his ordinary assistance:

“Divine assistance is also given in a special way, to the Bishop of Rome, when, even without arriving at an infallible definition and without making a definitive pronouncement, he proposes, in the exercise of the ordinary Magisterium, a teaching that leads to a better understanding of Revelation in matters of faith and morals ”.

How do you think that Bergoglio is the real pope if he is demolishing the Catholic identity from its very foundations? And, paradoxically, Orthodox Catholics despair over his measures instead of checking if he has what it takes to be pope: how to worry about the effects without investigating the causes.

Cionci: Even the laity seem quite indifferent to the question …

Giorgianni: A big mistake! A pope has a fundamental role in the politics of the whole world. Let us think only of the role played by John Paul II in the collapse of communism. The pope is a political leader with influence on over a billion people: he heavily conditions international politics.

Cionci: In this regard, you argue that Bergoglio is a sort of moral sponsor of the New World Order?

Giorgianni: He himself recently declared to a major newspaper (La Stampa of 3 /15/ 21): “We must not waste the pandemic, but use it to build a new world order”. Clearer than that? By now the concept is cleared through customs, we talk about it quietly, without shame. In fact, Bergoglio continually insists on this “interreligious dialogue” … I too am in favor of dialogue, but here it is taken as an excuse to annihilate the Catholic identity and make the church the container of a new globalist religion. A completely reverse process with respect to the uniqueness of Christ’s Revelation. But just look at the position held by the Church during the pandemic…

Cionci: By the way: you are very critical of the management of the health crisis …

Giorgianni: Sure. We are for vaccines, provided they are safe and effective, but we do not explain why rushing the administration of an experimental drug if there are effective therapies, instead completely neglected. A madness. Bergoglio also never talks about therapies, why? Rather, he demonstrated a subjection to civil power against any concordat and constitutional agreement, depriving many people of the minimum comforts of faith, closing churches and denying the sacraments even to the dying. Too many try to ride this health emergency to establish new political and/or financial projects. — But we will bring these truths to every public square: we believe in the rule of law and respect for the rules.

source: fromrome.info

The Blogger's Note: Is the dream I had in 2018 confirmed by the preceding article?

The third attempt of the hired man

Earlier today, I was swinging with my hammock inside the forest park when I saw an almost chubby, somewhat late twenties or early thirties young man who came cycling on a bicycle.

He stopped, had his bike parked and leaned on the sidewalk railings.

And went down to sit on the park's stony slope where both of us could see each other -- from a safe distance.

I already had a hint he was the same man as the two occasions he came to me -- the man hired to make me fall into temptation and commit the sin of the flesh.

This time, he exuded confidence and intent on carrying out his task on wooing me into having a sexual affair with him.

His face with a mask and his face without a mask seem to be of different faces and had visual effects on his physical build up.

I had no inkling if his face mask was worn on that third try he showed himself.

But I changed position so that I was swinging with my front and face away from him.

I had to show my disinterest right away.

If he were intent on tempting me, I should also be intent on blocking the temptation.

No, I should never block the temptation!

I had to flee from the temptation.

I unfastened my hammock from the trees, slid it into my bag and left the man there unsuccessful in his bid.

And the financial reward the plotters promised him once he succeeded takes flight.

No suspicious activity yet

No suspicious activity have I observed since dawn and so far tonight.

Probably, it's over for now but I need vigilance more than ever, I know "they" are planning for a surprise comeback to get me unawares. 

"They" had done it before and they will do it again and again until "they" catch me off-guard transgressing.

The hired man continues to do his job

I woke up early dawn today as usual and had to begin walking towards a particular eatery for coffee.

While walking, I noticed a man crossing the street as if coming towards me and looking straight to my eyes but went on walking opposite where I headed.

I had the chance to study and look at him on his back as he walked away, he was wearing a yellow T-shirt and white "purontong" pants!!!

I came to a realization: he was wearing the same as the man's clothes yesterday.

Could it be the same man?

I was still groggy from sleep.

The man yesterday, apparently taller and lean, was wearing a face mask.

The man this dawn, apparently almost chubby, wore the same clothes but without a face mask on so that, with the lamppost lighting from behind him, I could see the roughness of his face.

I followed him with my eyes and he took an immediate right turn to a dark place next to where I spend every night sleeping as a homeless.

I know the place and he is not a familiar face in the area.

I knew what he was up to.

To wait if I would follow him in the dark.

What for?

To tempt me into committing a sexual sin with him.

But "they" cannot fool me into getting trapped in their lairs. 

God has already ordained the outcome!

I left the scene and finally had a cup of coffee in the morning.

The 'evil plot' to discredit the ministry

"God is reversing the evil plots formed against you! You will not fall into their traps!"

May I re-share this message posted from Spiritual Inspiration Facebook page? 

Because the message contained herein just happened seconds ago.

"They" -- let me address them only as "they" -- sent somebody to get me trapped.

To make me fall into the area of the lust of the flesh. 

I thought the person was an acquaintance but I sensed the intention right then as the person was communicating to me -- at a distance! -- no matter how I signaled for the person to come.

Thrice, this "somebody" wearing a yellow T-shirt, white pants and a face mask tried to compel me to go "somewhere else" with this person -- but I already knew in my spirit this is a trap they set against me. 

Thanks to a warning from God through the Facebook post by Spiritual Inspiration even before it happened.

On the third attempt, I was seen typing on my mobile phone as I actually am writing this post.

This "somebody" might have thought I am messaging the authorities because I saw this "somebody" immediately boarding the passenger vehicle that happened to slow down in the traffic.

This "somebody," who carried out irrationally and nervously the task this "somebody" was hired for, has already fled.

I am telling you this without giving you the details to demonstrate to you that this particular fb page that posts messages of warning and knowledge through the word of God is also anointed. 

The masterminds behind the plot (God, through the Word, let me know who they are) seek to discredit me for this blog ministry. 

Is the ministry entrusted to me by the Lord gaining ground and a foothold for them to do this plot against me?

The Church is the same yesterday, today and forever

Can a mere creature change the God Who created it?

This question, if changed into a statement, does not follow logic.

The question should be re-written the other way around, for it to extract an affirmative response.

To make sense.

Can a Creator change the character of His creation, His creatures? 

Absolutely.

Because He is the Creator -- Omniscient, Omnipresent and Omnipotent.

Whereas, man is merely a created being -- a perfect creation at that yet transgressed by listening to the woman who listened to the lies of the serpent.

Redemption took place and the God-man fellowship is restored.

In spite of this, Man is trying hard to change God!

Man, sadly, is getting out of his right mind.

And becoming ingrate and wanting to lord it over his Creator.

By thinking he is above his Creator.

Wishful thinking.

A by-product of lies being fed into the heart and soul of man.

Again!

Man should shut off his ears from the lies of the Enemy of God: Lucifer-turned-Satan, the father and whisperer of lies.

Let man avoid Luciferian (a misnomer since the term refers to the former self of Satan, therefore should be termed "Satanic") ideologies:

Rosicrucianism -- the Illuminati -- Freemasonry -- Masonry -- New Age Spiritualism -- Socialism -- Communism -- Paganism -- Humanism -- Atheism.

Get rid of such infestations.

And get oneself back to his right thinking.

To his logic!

To his senses!

Man cannot change God.

So too can man impossibly change the Church that Christ instituted.

Satan in the flesh, however, has worked tirelessly to change the Church -- from within.

But Mary's heel, as foretold, will soon "crush the head of the serpent."

And the pre-Vatican II discipline of the Church for the past centuries will be restored and observed by the Church of today and forever.

Divine confirmation - 59

 

Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord

Lectionary: 545

Gospel

Lk 1:26-38

The angel Gabriel was sent from God
to a town of Galilee called Nazareth,
to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph,
of the house of David,
and the virgin’s name was Mary.
And coming to her, he said,
“Hail, full of grace! The Lord is with you.”
But she was greatly troubled at what was said
and pondered what sort of greeting this might be.
Then the angel said to her,
“Do not be afraid, Mary,
for you have found favor with God.
Behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son,
and you shall name him Jesus.
He will be great and will be called Son of the Most High,
and the Lord God will give him the throne of David his father,
and he will rule over the house of Jacob forever,
and of his Kingdom there will be no end.”
But Mary said to the angel,
“How can this be,
since I have no relations with a man?”
And the angel said to her in reply,
“The Holy Spirit will come upon you,
and the power of the Most High will overshadow you.
Therefore the child to be born
will be called holy, the Son of God.
And behold, Elizabeth, your relative,
has also conceived a son in her old age,
and this is the sixth month for her who was called barren;
for nothing will be impossible for God.”
Mary said, “Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord.
May it be done to me according to your word.”
Then the angel departed from her.

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Monday of the Fifth Week of Lent

Lectionary: 251

Reading I

Dn 13:1-9, 15-17, 19-30, 33-62 or 13:41c-62

In Babylon there lived a man named Joakim,
who married a very beautiful and God-fearing woman, Susanna,
the daughter of Hilkiah;
her pious parents had trained their daughter
according to the law of Moses.
Joakim was very rich;
he had a garden near his house,
and the Jews had recourse to him often
because he was the most respected of them all.

That year, two elders of the people were appointed judges,
of whom the Lord said, “Wickedness has come out of Babylon:
from the elders who were to govern the people as judges.”
These men, to whom all brought their cases,
frequented the house of Joakim.
When the people left at noon,
Susanna used to enter her husband’s garden for a walk.
When the old men saw her enter every day for her walk,
they began to lust for her.
They suppressed their consciences;
they would not allow their eyes to look to heaven,
and did not keep in mind just judgments.

One day, while they were waiting for the right moment,
she entered the garden as usual, with two maids only.
She decided to bathe, for the weather was warm.
Nobody else was there except the two elders,
who had hidden themselves and were watching her.
“Bring me oil and soap,” she said to the maids,
“and shut the garden doors while I bathe.”

As soon as the maids had left,
the two old men got up and hurried to her.
“Look,” they said, “the garden doors are shut, and no one can see us;
give in to our desire, and lie with us.
If you refuse, we will testify against you
that you dismissed your maids because a young man was here with you.”

“I am completely trapped,” Susanna groaned.
“If I yield, it will be my death;
if I refuse, I cannot escape your power.
Yet it is better for me to fall into your power without guilt
than to sin before the Lord.”
Then Susanna shrieked, and the old men also shouted at her,
as one of them ran to open the garden doors.
When the people in the house heard the cries from the garden,
they rushed in by the side gate to see what had happened to her.
At the accusations by the old men,
the servants felt very much ashamed,
for never had any such thing been said about Susanna.

When the people came to her husband Joakim the next day,
the two wicked elders also came,
fully determined to put Susanna to death.
Before all the people they ordered:
“Send for Susanna, the daughter of Hilkiah,
the wife of Joakim.”
When she was sent for,
she came with her parents, children and all her relatives.
All her relatives and the onlookers were weeping.

In the midst of the people the two elders rose up
and laid their hands on her head.
Through tears she looked up to heaven,
for she trusted in the Lord wholeheartedly.
The elders made this accusation:
“As we were walking in the garden alone,
this woman entered with two girls
and shut the doors of the garden, dismissing the girls.
A young man, who was hidden there, came and lay with her.
When we, in a corner of the garden, saw this crime,
we ran toward them.
We saw them lying together,
but the man we could not hold, because he was stronger than we;
he opened the doors and ran off.
Then we seized her and asked who the young man was,
but she refused to tell us.
We testify to this.”
The assembly believed them,
since they were elders and judges of the people,
and they condemned her to death.

But Susanna cried aloud:
“O eternal God, you know what is hidden
and are aware of all things before they come to be:
you know that they have testified falsely against me. 
Here I am about to die,
though I have done none of the things
with which these wicked men have charged me.”

The Lord heard her prayer.
As she was being led to execution,
God stirred up the holy spirit of a young boy named Daniel,
and he cried aloud:
“I will have no part in the death of this woman.”
All the people turned and asked him, “What is this you are saying?”
He stood in their midst and continued,
“Are you such fools, O children of Israel! 
To condemn a woman of Israel without examination
and without clear evidence?
Return to court, for they have testified falsely against her.”

Then all the people returned in haste.
To Daniel the elders said,
“Come, sit with us and inform us,
since God has given you the prestige of old age.”
But he replied,
“Separate these two far from each other that I may examine them.”

After they were separated one from the other,
he called one of them and said:
“How you have grown evil with age!
Now have your past sins come to term:
passing unjust sentences, condemning the innocent,
and freeing the guilty, although the Lord says,
‘The innocent and the just you shall not put to death.’
Now, then, if you were a witness,
tell me under what tree you saw them together.”
“Under a mastic tree,” he answered.
Daniel replied, “Your fine lie has cost you your head,
for the angel of God shall receive the sentence from him
and split you in two.”
Putting him to one side, he ordered the other one to be brought.
Daniel said to him,
“Offspring of Canaan, not of Judah, beauty has seduced you,
lust has subverted your conscience.
This is how you acted with the daughters of Israel,
and in their fear they yielded to you;
but a daughter of Judah did not tolerate your wickedness.
Now, then, tell me under what tree you surprised them together.”
“Under an oak,” he said.
Daniel replied, “Your fine lie has cost you also your head,
for the angel of God waits with a sword to cut you in two
so as to make an end of you both.”

The whole assembly cried aloud,
blessing God who saves those who hope in him.
They rose up against the two elders,
for by their own words Daniel had convicted them of perjury.
According to the law of Moses,
they inflicted on them
the penalty they had plotted to impose on their neighbor:
they put them to death.
Thus was innocent blood spared that day.

OR:

The assembly condemned Susanna to death.

But Susanna cried aloud:
“O eternal God, you know what is hidden
and are aware of all things before they come to be:
you know that they have testified falsely against me.
Here I am about to die,
though I have done none of the things
with which these wicked men have charged me.”

The Lord heard her prayer.
As she was being led to execution,
God stirred up the holy spirit of a young boy named Daniel,
and he cried aloud:
“I will have no part in the death of this woman.”
All the people turned and asked him,
“What is this you are saying?”
He stood in their midst and continued,
“Are you such fools, O children of Israel!
To condemn a woman of Israel without examination
and without clear evidence?
Return to court, for they have testified falsely against her.”

Then all the people returned in haste.
To Daniel the elders said,
“Come, sit with us and inform us,
since God has given you the prestige of old age.”
But he replied,
“Separate these two far from each other that I may examine them.”

After they were separated one from the other,
he called one of them and said:
“How you have grown evil with age!
Now have your past sins come to term:
passing unjust sentences, condemning the innocent,
and freeing the guilty, although the Lord says,
‘The innocent and the just you shall not put to death.’ 
Now, then, if you were a witness,
tell me under what tree you saw them together.”
“Under a mastic tree,” he answered.
Daniel replied, “Your fine lie has cost you your head,
for the angel of God shall receive the sentence from him
and split you in two.”
Putting him to one side, he ordered the other one to be brought. 
Daniel said to him, “Offspring of Canaan, not of Judah,
beauty has seduced you, lust has subverted your conscience.
This is how you acted with the daughters of Israel,
and in their fear they yielded to you;
but a daughter of Judah did not tolerate your wickedness.
Now, then, tell me under what tree you surprised them together.”
“Under an oak,” he said.
Daniel replied, “Your fine lie has cost you also your head,”
for the angel of God waits with a sword to cut you in two
so as to make an end of you both.”

The whole assembly cried aloud,
blessing God who saves those who hope in him.
They rose up against the two elders,
for by their own words Daniel had convicted them of perjury.
According to the law of Moses,
they inflicted on them
the penalty they had plotted to impose on their neighbor:
they put them to death.
Thus was innocent blood spared that day.

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Saturday of the Fourth Week of Lent

Lectionary: 249

Reading I

Jer 11:18-20

I knew their plot because the LORD informed me;
at that time you, O LORD, showed me their doings.

Yet I, like a trusting lamb led to slaughter,
had not realized that they were hatching plots against me:
“Let us destroy the tree in its vigor;
let us cut him off from the land of the living,
so that his name will be spoken no more.”

    But, you, O LORD of hosts, O just Judge,
        searcher of mind and heart,
    Let me witness the vengeance you take on them,
        for to you I have entrusted my cause!

Responsorial Psalm

7:2-3, 9bc-10, 11-12

R.    (2a) O Lord, my God, in you I take refuge.
O LORD, my God, in you I take refuge;
    save me from all my pursuers and rescue me,
Lest I become like the lion’s prey,
    to be torn to pieces, with no one to rescue me.
R.    O Lord, my God, in you I take refuge.
Do me justice, O LORD, because I am just,
    and because of the innocence that is mine.
Let the malice of the wicked come to an end,
    but sustain the just,
    O searcher of heart and soul, O just God.
R.    O Lord, my God, in you I take refuge.
A shield before me is God,
    who saves the upright of heart;
A just judge is God,
    a God who punishes day by day.
R.    O Lord, my God, in you I take refuge.

Verse before the Gospel

See Lk 8:15

Blessed are they who have kept the word with a generous heart
and yield a harvest through perseverance.

Gospel

Jn 7:40-53

Some in the crowd who heard these words of Jesus said,
“This is truly the Prophet.”
Others said, “This is the Christ.”
But others said, “The Christ will not come from Galilee, will he?
Does not Scripture say that the Christ will be of David’s family
and come from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?”
So a division occurred in the crowd because of him.
Some of them even wanted to arrest him,
but no one laid hands on him.

So the guards went to the chief priests and Pharisees,
who asked them, “Why did you not bring him?”
The guards answered, “Never before has anyone spoken like this man.”
So the Pharisees answered them, “Have you also been deceived?
Have any of the authorities or the Pharisees believed in him?
But this crowd, which does not know the law, is accursed.”
Nicodemus, one of their members who had come to him earlier, said to them, 
“Does our law condemn a man before it first hears him
and finds out what he is doing?”
They answered and said to him,
“You are not from Galilee also, are you?
Look and see that no prophet arises from Galilee.”

Then each went to his own house.