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Divine Mercy and secrets

PERSPECTIVE - Cherry Piquero Ballescas -

Starting today, May 3,until tomorrow, May 4, the 13th National Convention for the Divine Mercy will be held at the University of Cebu METC in Tabada, Mambaling, Cebu City. Brother Stanley Villavicencio, himself touched by the Divine Mercy, has made it his mission to remind all about the wonderful love and mercy of God. He will be at the Convention to welcome all participants. According to Brother Stanley, “everyone is welcome. Free registration, free kits, free snacks plus raffles included.”

In another reminder, Brother Stanley wrote, “Please let us help Jesus in spreading about His unfathomable Mercy.. Jesus said ‘anyone who will help spread My Mercy will have extra brightness in the next life.”

Perhaps this year’s Divine Mercy Convention is a good opportunity to pray that those who have secrets that need to be revealed for the sake of truth finally get the divine courage, strength and honesty to do so.

There are so many secrets that are being hidden from our people. Perhaps, we can join hands and ask the Divine Mercy to let the truth be finally known by all, not just be kept by those whose agenda is to hide these from our people.

Remember the Garci tapes? And the fertilizer scam? Plus the NBN-ZTE deal? What about the truth behind the present confusion about the rice crisis, the rice smuggling and the rice hoarding? What about the secret behind the Spratly deal? And JPEPA? And more?

We are sure many of you heard a very giggly GMA who answered, “Secret” when she was asked very recently if a Cabinet revamp was forthcoming.

What? GMA has another secret? She really does seem to love playing this game of secrets, doesn’t she? She seems to love keeping all in suspense. Not even her own men, her own cabinet members, know whether they are part of the secret or not. Or except perhaps Neri who knows the secret about what GMA told him but which he prefers not to divulge?

Another secret that only she can shed light upon is why she decided to play the so-called “amazing race” with reporters. Many are also wanting to know why she decided to be elsewhere for Labor Day, rather than be in Manila. Was that another “security secret” that only those very close to her know? Was she avoiding the larger rallies in Manila?

Or was it her intention or the plan of her “secret” team to play the game of hide and seek to diffuse the anger and frustration of the workers and the hungry last May 1 because she could not give them what they had been promised, steady food and sufficient income?

Bottom line, no wage hike for everyone on May 1, contrary to the media releases from her and her men (complete with photo ops) that she was ordering wage boards to decide on wage hikes for workers. Can you imagine wage boards not following the order of the “Commander-in-Chief?” Was GMA’s order real or what?

 GMA seems to love to keep everyone in suspense and in utter confusion, pictures of her show her giggly and smiling! The more essential truths, GMA and her team seem to prefer to keep “secret”. The non-essentials, GMA and her team seem to prefer to make public.

The more confused the public, the better? The more divided the people, the better for GMA and her government? It is no secret how they tried to confuse and divide labor and the public on May 1. Wage board meetings were back to back with job fairs sponsored by this government of course, while rallies and protests were being staged nation-wide. Wage hikes for some, no wage hikes for the other needy. Cheap medicine bill rushed for May 1 but critics question whether in fact, the bill will truly be useful for the poor and needy.

There is no secret that will not be revealed, however, and no confusion that will not be cleared. For those who will participate in the Divine Mercy Convention today and tomorrow, may one of your prayers be that the essential secrets that can free our people and our land be revealed in God’s own time and way. May one other prayer be that the needs of the hungry and the unemployed be met soon, and that this nation be cleansed soon of sinners and the corrupt and instead be replaced by more of those who speak only God’s truth and who do only what is good for those they serve.

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BROTHER STANLEY

DIVINE MERCY

DIVINE MERCY CONVENTION

GMA

PLACE

SECRET

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