The spiritual significance of the calamities occurring in the Philippines

(Part III of a series on The Ecumenical Trinity of Shrines)

The three sanctuaries at Cadiz, Greenhills and Mt. Pinatubo at Palan, San Marcelino, Zambales were mystically designed to uplift the morale of the people during hard times. Their miracles and predictions are simply to validate the messages, foremost of which is the need for “inner transformation”. It is the implementation that counts and not the phenomena themselves.

The real EDSA Revolution

While the Hacienda Tamsi Shrine inspires the farmers of Cadiz and Sagay, 14 O.B. Montessori Pagsasarili Mothercraft Literacy Centers in the sugarcane communities of Negros Occidental have raised the awareness of the families to a more dignified standard of living. With Punay Kabayao-Fernandez and her daughter Tamsi’s full cooperation, together with the support of the Cadiz and Sagay mayors, 400 mothers graduated from these centers from 1986 to 1988.

Former DECS Secretary Lourdes Quisumbing, who then inaugurated the first center in Cadiz, noted, “This is the real EDSA Revolution - barrio mother and child learning together personal grooming and hygiene, good housekeeping, child care, cooking and nutrition. A revolution cannot happen in one day. It must be lived day in day out.” The deeper significance of the EDSA Revolution is the social revolution and transformation that must be lived daily by Filipinos to help unify the nation.

Who was Punay Kabayao-Fernandez?

Punay K. Fernandez’ mystical messages have been confirmed by more than 10 Filipino gifted visionaries and four renowned American mystic-clairvoyants. Basically an artist on concert stage, Punay was a member of the Lopez-Kabayao family of three generations of musicians in Iloilo, Negros and Manila. The discipline has given her access to “mystical impressions.” Before she joined her brother Gilopez and sister Marcelita in the United States, she was already giving individual and family concerts, having majored in the use of both violin and piano. She studied five years in New York.

Since she was nine years old, Punay’s spiritual gifts were already active. Her versatile father, Dr. Doroteo Kabayao, owned and helped managed a hospital. He was also a concert violinist and one time Bible teacher at Silliman University. At first, he discouraged the mystical visions of his daughter since it might distract her from her musical training. Towards his senior years, however, he became her greatest confidante. (1984-1998 - Punay helped us establish the shrines of Negros, OBMC, Greenhills, and the Mt. Pinatubo Hidden Temple Shrine. 2001-2008 - she became bed ridden. Earlier, she predicted that her heart will suffer greatly due to the intense energy demanded by the mystical mission. She passed away on April 2008.)

Punay is one of the senior members of the Philippine Theosophical Society. The Theosophical Society is a fraternity of ancient wisdom teaching made up of an international non-sectarian body of men and women, who are united by their principle of Universal Brotherhood. They have no uniform creed or obligatory beliefs. A very investigative society, the Theosophical Society members are trained not to make claims of visions, miracles and manifestations casually. The London Theosophical Society has an investigatory office with a vast library for research alone. A most important Theosophical lesson is the ability to discriminate between the genuine and the fake manifestations.

Spiritual not religious

Most of the messages of Our Lady in various apparition sites in the world spoke of the urgency of religious conversions and the threat of punishments. In the new millennium the temperament and morality of mankind has changed greatly due to new circumstances of wars and physical calamities. The messages have changed. Mankind is exhorted to pray and unite. Decades ago, Pope John XXIII initiated ecumenism. Today amidst terrorism caused by differences in religion the call is for inter-faith.

If the whole universe and the vast spirit world are even now laboring to prepare and save us, it is easy to see why Our Lord spoke of “spiritual rehabilitation” instead of religious change. Our Blessed Mother Mary has after all declared the Palan Shrine to be for people of all faiths, and in Annie Kirkwood’s book, “Mary’s Message to the World,” (Blessed Mother’s messages assimilated into book form from summer 1988 through summer 1989) Mary constantly repeats this ecumenical message.

“My words are for all people, all nations and all religions. I have come not just for Catholics and I cannot be limited by cultural differences because I am commissioned by God the Creator. God is limitless and is above all religions and dogmas of man. There is only one God and He is God to all people; no matter what name they use to identify God, He is the same.

“Dogma and ritual are not as important as the worship which is done in your heart and mind. If it is of benefit to enter a church to pray and meditate, then by all means do so. Use whatever position, words or place that enable you to pray. If it helps to pray the rosary, then use this method. But places, words, beads and churches are not the issue. Your ability to commune with the One God is of utmost importance.”

The real message

Throughout all these calamities, Mother Mary assures us that there will be safe places available and pockets of technology left, but only our individual prayers and meditations will guide us to these places. She also advices us that prayers can alleviate some of those predictions. She says, “With more people praying more often and intensely, the severity can be lessened.”

However, despite the fear that these prophecies will tend to raise, their real intent is to validate the urgent need for us to prepare ourselves individually while there is still time. Though undoubtedly many will die from these disasters, death is not the book’s real message but life, unending life. Just as physical death is actually a passage from the material to the spiritual plane, so too the changes are not God’s punishments but are part of nature’s cyclical evolutionary pattern that signals the start of new periods of growth on the planet.

In one book, Mary time and again teaches us that there is no death — only eternal life lived on different dimensions, levels and planets of consciousness.