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Bagong ORATIO IMPERATA Laban sa COVID- 19

(Revised January 2021)

Mahabagin at mapagmahal na Ama, nagsusumamo kami sa iyo  upang hilingin ang iyong patnubay laban sa Covid-19 na nagpapahirap sa marami at kumitil na ng mga buhay.

Tunghayan mo kami nang may pagmamahal at ipag-adya kami ng inyong mapaghilom na kamay mula sa takot sa kamatayan at karamdaman, itaguyod mo kami sa pag-asa at patatagin sa pananampalataya.

Gabayan mo ang mga dalubhasang naatasan na tumuklas ng mga lunas at paraan upang ihinto ang paglaganap nito. Nagpapasalamat kami sa mga bakunang naisulong sa patnubay ng iyong mga kamay.  Pagpalain mo ang aming mga pagsisikap na mawakasan ng mga bakuna ang pandemya sa aming bayan.

Patnubayan mo ang mga lumilingap sa maysakit upang ang kanilang pagkalinga ay malakipan ng husay at malasakit. Pagkalooban mo sila ng kalusugan sa isip at katawan, katatagan sa kanilang paninindigang maglingkod at ipagsanggalang sa karamdaman.

Itinataas namin ang mga nagdurusa. Makamtam nawa nila ang mabuting kalusugan. Lingapin mo rin ang mga kumakalinga sa kanila. Pagkamitin mo ng kapayapaang walang hanggan ang mga pumanaw na.

Pagkalooban mo kami ng biyaya na magtulong tulong tungo sa ikabubuti ng lahat. Pukawin sa amin ang pagmamalasakit sa mga nangangailangan. Sa pagdamay at malasakit namin sa bawat isa, malampasan nawa namin ang krisis na ito at lumago sa kabanalan at pagbabalik loob sa iyo.

Hinihiling naming ito sa pamamagitan ni Hesukristo na nabubuhay at naghaharing kasama mo at ng Espiritu Santo, Diyos, magpasawalang hangan. Amen.

Dumudulog kami sa iyong patnubay, Mahal na Ina ng Diyos. Pakinggan mo ang aming mga kahilingan sa aming pangangailangan at ipagadya mo kami sa lahat ng kasamaan, maluwalhati at pinagpalang Birhen. Amen.

Mahal na Birhen, mapagpagaling sa maysakit, ipanalangin mo kami.
San Jose, ipanalangin mo kami.
San Rafael Arkanghel, ipanalangin mo kami.
San Roque, ipanalangin mo kami.
San Lorenzo Ruiz, ipanalangin mo kami.
San Pedro Calungsod, ipanalangin mo kami.

Revised ORATIO IMPERATA for Protection Against Covid-19

(Revised January 2021)

Merciful and compassionate Father,
we come to you in our need to seek your protection against the COVID 19 virus that has disturbed and even claimed lives.

We ask you now to look upon us with love and by your healing hand,
dispel the fear of sickness and death, restore our hope, and strengthen our faith.

We pray that you guide the people tasked to find cures for this disease
and to stem its transmission.

We thank you for the vaccines developed made possible by your guiding hands. Bless our efforts to use these vaccines to end the pandemic in our country.

We pray for our health workers that they may minister to the sick
with competence and compassion. Grant them health in mind and body,
strength in their commitment, protection from the disease.

We pray for those afflicted. May they be restored to health.
Protect those who care for them. Grant eternal rest to those who have died.

Give us the grace in these trying times to work for the good of all
and to help those in need. May our concern and compassion for each other
see us through this crisis and lead us to conversion and holiness.

Grant all these through our Lord Jesus Christ your Son who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God forever and ever. Amen.

We fly to Your protection, O Holy Mother of God. Do not despise our petition in our necessities, but deliver us always from all dangers, O glorious and blessed Virgin. Amen.

Our Lady, health of the sick, pray for us.
St. Joseph, pray for us.
St. Raphael the Archangel, pray for us.
San Roque, pray for us.
San Lorenzo Ruiz, pray for us
San Pedro Calungsod, pray for us.

Defend our universities as bastions of critical thinking and dissent

Movement Against Tyranny Press Statement

January 29, 2021

The Movement Against Tyranny calls on the Filipino people to come to the defense of our institutions of higher learning, which are now under attack from officials of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) and other rabid members of the Duterte administration.

This week, NTF-ELCAC spokesperson Gen. Antonio Parlade Jr. revived his list of 18 schools supposedly in cahoots with communists, which he first revealed in his infamous Red October plot expose of 2018.

Not to be outdone, presidential communications office undersecretary Lorraine Badoy, who is also an NTF-ELCAC spokesperson, came out with a longer list of 38 colleges and universities allegedly serving as recruitment grounds of the New People’s Army.

The pronouncements of Parlade and Badoy follow defense secretary Delfin Lorenzana’s unilateral and arbitrary abrogation of the UP-DND Accord which, for the last 30 years, have protected the country’s premier state university from illegal and unreasonable searches, arrests and surveillance, as well as prohibited state security forces from interfering in peaceful assemblies and protests in campus.

The security sector insists that such means of protecting academic freedom turns our campuses into breeding grounds of rebels and terrorists. This is not only an attack on the reputation of these schools but on academic freedom itself and the role of educational institutions in nurturing critical thinking among our youth.

The freedom to think and challenge the status quo is precisely what makes the academe a dynamic source of novel and radical solutions to such fundamental problems as mass poverty, underdevelopment, systemic corruption, rampant human rights abuses and blatant violations of our sovereignty. It is also this freedom that nurtures righteous dissent against all kinds of tyranny and oppression.

Thus, academic freedom is a key element in any democracy. This is precisely why the Constitution guarantees it. To impinge upon that freedom by stoking the fear of communism is straight out of the fascist playbook. Let us not play into the hands of those who would have us return to the dark days dictatorship. Let us defend academic freedom and say no to tyranny!#

Invitation to People’s Choice Movement Online Assembly

January 21, 2021

Greetings of Christ’s peace!

            We, the People’s Choice Movement (PCM), have been aware of your support for good governance, and your familiarity with our Vision-Mission to select servant-leaders as candidates for public office, given your participation in our past convention, conferences, meetings, or your reading of our Primer, or having been briefed by your friends. We would like to update you on how you can further participate in our patriotic efforts for the good of our country and our people.

            In this regard, we would like to respectfully invite you to join our Online Assembly on January 29, Friday, from 3:00 to 6:00 PM. We are privileged to have as our speaker the Apostolic Administrator of the Archdiocese of Manila, Bp. Broderick Pabillo, DD. He will help us understand what the recent papal encyclical, Fratelli Tutti, of Pope Francis says about the political involvement of Christians in the context of the upcoming 2022 national elections, considering the renewal of efforts of the allies of the current Administration in pushing for Charter Change.

            The online meeting’s agenda will include updates and discussion of PCM’s key programs to attain our objectives, especially strengthening our ranks and improving our system of operations, building alliances and coalitions, based on common programs and advocacies, to realize our plan of searching, selecting, and electing genuine servant-leaders into public offices.

            Your attendance and active engagement in this important meeting, and in future PCM’s endeavors, will go a long way towards realizing “Our Dream Philippines” in the near future.

Respectfully in Christ,

Laiko Online Conversation 2021

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

The Sangguniang Laiko ng Pilipinas is inviting you to the 1st Laiko Conversation for 2021 entitled: “Consecration Conversation with Fr. Calloway”. This will be on Feb 13, 2021 at 2 PM. We have invited the author of the book Consecration to St. Joseph, Fr. Don Calloway, MIC to share with us how to make “The Year of St. Joseph” more meaningful and life-changing.

Fr. Don will be in Texas during that time and 2 pm in the Philippines is 12 midnight in Texas. He is therefore taking this time with us as a joyful sacrifice. We are asking all of you therefore to register ahead of time so we would know how many slots we need for our Zoom meeting, in order to make this short conversation worthwhile. We also ask you to invite your members, especially the youth, to attend either through Zoom or FB Live.

Lastly, below is a link to a video which we are asking you to watch ahead. Please this message and link to others.

For those interested, pls email the Laiko Secretariat (laiko_phils@yahoo.com.ph).

Thank you very much!

Sincerely yours,