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Title: The Cross
Issue Date: Volume XXX (Issue Nos.11-12) November-December 1982
Year: 1982
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extracted text: /NATIONAL CATHOLIC MAGAZINE WHO GETS THE CREDIT APIECE OF CLOTH ABOUT REVOLUTIONS 1982:YEAR OF THE ELDERLY UNITY THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS IN THE PHILIPPINES P.O. Box510, Manila DIRECTORY OF OFFICERS FOR THE COLUMBIAN YEAR 1982-1983 NATIONAL OFFICERS OSCAR LEDESMA Philippine Deputy JAIME L. CARDINAL SIN National Chaplain MARDON1O R. SANTOS Asst. Philippine Deputy Luzon MSGR. FRANCISCO G. TANTOCO, JR. Asst. National Chaplain National Secretary ANTONIO 0. SALAZAR Asst. Philippine Deputy Visayas CORNELIO B. CAGURANGAN Asst. National Secretary QUIR1CO P. EVANGELISTA Master of the 4th Degree FRANCISCO E. LOPEZ, JR. Asst. Philippine Deputy Mindanao COL. JOSE C. GUEVARRA (AFP Ret) National Advocate JUANC. REYES, JR. Asst. National Advocate NESTORC. PANO National Warden NATIONAL COMMITTEE DIRECTORS/CHAIRMEN 1. Program Director Mardonio R. Santos 2. Church Activity Director Artemio L. Coronel 3. Community Activity Director HilarioG. Davide, Jr. 4. Pro-life Activity Chairman Justice Juvenal K. Guerrero 5. Council Activity Director Dr. Roberto G. Canta 6. Public Relations (Internal) Chairman Antonio 0. Salazar 7. Public Relations (External) Chairman Jose E. Escaner 8. Youth Activity Director Jerome J. Cruz 9. Columbian Squires Chairman Alberto R. Tanghal 10. Membership Director Lauro M. Cruz 11. Ceremonials Chairman Nestor C. Pano 12. Retention Chairman Alfredo T. Traballo 13. Insurance Chairman Isagani V. Tolentino 14. Family Life Activity Director Vicente A. de Vera 15. Health Services Chairman Dr. Antonio D. Menez 16. Recruitment Chairman Jovenal A. Barreto 17. Sports Actiyity Chairman Julio H. Agcaoili. 18. Formation Chairman Carlo H. Magno 19. Ways and Means Chairman Tomas A. Blanco 20. College Councils Chairman Hector M. Aguiling 21. Editor, Cross Magazine Francisco G. Tonogbanua 22. New Council Development Chairman Col. Pedro L. Los Banos CO-CHAIRMAN Quirico P. Evangelista Agustin G. Villavicencio Dr. RaymundoC. Soliman Dr. Alfonso B. Javier Miguel B. Gatchalian Cecilio C. Villanueva Antonio R. Sanglay BenefridoM. Cruz Dr. Virgilio P. Calica Col. Rizalino P. Lacuna Ricardo I. de Leon Cristeo P. Aquino JustinoC. Castro CROSS KNIGHTS OF COLUMBU8 IN THE PHILIPPINES OSCAR LEDESMA rHILI^riW MPUTV P. O. BOX Bl®. MANILA TCL. 47-OB-M ‘Jiiujfits K»t>bu5 TO BROTHER KNIGHTS Every year, Catholics deplore the improper celebration of Christmas when Christmas is actually upon us. We blame the storekeepers, the advertisers, radio and television, the public schools — everybody but ourselves. Yet people in these fields strive to give the public what will attract us, and what we will buy. Christmas sales campaigns are planned months ahead of time, based on what we have patronized in the past. When Advent is over, we grumble about how Christ has been removed from Christmas ... when it is too late to do anyting about it. By the next Advent, we have usually forgotten last year's mistakes. Keep Christ in Christmas. For some time now, the Knights of Columbus have been working to put CHRIST back in CHRIST mas — to make the Christ Child and His birthday uppermost in the minas and hearts of people. Let that be our goal this Christmas season. An even greater awareness of the true meaning of Christmas can be achieved if more people actively participate. Let us do something to actively support the idea, within the famliy, circle of friends, and business contacts. AS INDIVIDUALS, let usdisplay a Christmas Crib inside the home or outdoors. Let us make a Christ Crib as family project. Let us urge our friends and neighbors to use similar displays. Let us tell the story of the Christ Child to our children so they will understand the true meaning of Christmas. Let us attend Christmas church services. Let us purchase and urge issuance of religious Christmas stamps by the Post Offices. CLUBS, ASSOCIATIONS or CHURCH GROUPS should help organize the memberships' observance of the Christmas season to reflect the holy spirit of the occasion. They should initiate some specific Christmas programs to tie in with the community campaigns. They should distribute "keep Christ in Christmas" information and urge interested people to act upon the idea. We suggest that KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS COUNCILS plan for at least one special Sunday afternoon service during December for the council members and their families. This could include the Rosary, Benediction and Christmas carols. They should arrange for a corporate communion for members and their families during Christmastime, and sponsor pilgrimages to local churches — all Catholic, if desirable — and at each church, gifts should be presented, which should include gifts symbolic of the Hope of a Savior to Redeem Man, the Coming of Christ, and the Birth of Our Lord.. Novenber-December, 1982 Page 3 jure VIEWS CROSS National Catholic Magazine THE HOLY CHILD, AND EACH CHILD The birth of the Holy Infant focuses our thoughts and feelings on His coming to redeem mankind of sinfulness. We have not totally succeeded in understanding the reason for His coming, nor in imbuing our lives with faith, hope and love that we, as Christians, are expected to manifest. In another sense the birth of the Holy Infant reminds us about other children — ordinary children born or still to be born. In Bethlehem, many innkeepers re jected the Virgin Marv from taking a rest in their inns. They rejected the unborn Child, too. At present, there are would be parents who reject their unborn children, or who are led mistakenly by others to reject their children throbbing with life in their wombs. They allow the destruction of human lives that ask to be loved, to be cared for before they have come out to see the wonders of a world that their mo thers did not make orbring into existence. Thus, the celebration of Christmas becomes all the more imperative for Knights of Columbus, their spouses, their mature children, and the rest of Catholics like us, to campaign for the sanctity of every human life born of unborn — especially those unborn, who are defenseless and, being unseen, are not considered as having life. It is our duty, as Christians, to discourage any attempt to stifle that throbbing life in the womb, and to explain that we mortals have not the power to judge that a throbbing life in the womb is not entitled- to life out side of it. merely in order to hide the folly of its parent. We should all strongly say: To reject an unborn child is to reject the Christ child. — PACIFICO B. MORES Page 4 Official bi-monthly organ of the KNIGHTS 01-' COLUMBUS in the Philippines, K of C., Gen. Luna cor. Sta. Potcnciana Sts., Intramuros, Manila, P.O. Box 510. D-406. TeL 47-39-49. VOL. XXX, Nos. 11-12 Articles: 6 8 10 14 16 20 Subscription: P6.00 a year. Reenter ed as second class mail matter at the Manila Post Office on March 11, 1963. November-December, 1982 IN THIS ISSUE 1982: YEAR OF THE ELDERLY By Francisco G. Tonogbanua ABOUT REVOLUTIONS By Rev. Leo A. Cullum, S.J. A PIECE OF CLOTH By Rev. Miguel A. Bernad. S.J. UNITY By Msgr. Francisco G. Tantoco, Jr. WHO GETS THE CREDIT By Rev. John Chambers, S.J. MORE PLEASANT BARANGAY HEADQUARTERS DESIRED By Ben S. De Castro Fiction BUNDLES OF HAY By Benjamin M. Pascual CROSS Supplement: PRO-LIFE A to D Departments: 3 4 11 TO BROTHER KNIGHTS 17 From the Philippine Deputy 18 VIEWS The National Chaplain Speaks By Jaime L. Cardinal Sin 30 Knights In the Nt s Daughters of Mary Immaculate KC Profile By BSdeC Knights In Action Question Box: By Rev. Paul EM Sheehan, S.J. 15 MSGR. FRANCISCO G. TANTOCO. JR Executive Editor FRANCISCO G. TONOGBANUA Editor BEN S. DECASTRO Aabtait Editor REV. LEO A. CULLUM, S.J. REV. PAUL E.M. SHEEHAN, S.J. CoutdbutiMEdhoa CROSS “STAR DISTRICT AWARD" Half of Total Number of Philippine District Deputies Win Coveted Award Half of the total number of District Deputies in the Philippines are among those announced by the Supreme Council at New Haven, Connecticut, USA, as having qualified for the new “Star District Award.” In checking the February 1 reports for each district, it was found that out of the 180 KC districts in the Philip pines, 99 district deputies have quali fied for this award. There are still four and a half months remaining after this date in which to qualify for the award and, therefore, it is still possible that several more DD’s may be added to the already qualified. At the meeting of state deputies held in Clearwater, Florida, USA, in June, 1982, the Supreme Council announced this new award for district deputies. Appropriately titled the “Star District Award,” this new pro gram will reward those district deputies that record an overall district wide net gain of 2.5% in membership and 1.75% in insurance between July 1, 1981 and June 30,1982. All, winning district deputies will receive from the Supreme- Council a personalized “Star District” plaque after the current year has ended. Advice, however, was also announced that the insurance quota does not apply to district deputies in the Philip pines. Following is the complete list of the 99 district deputies who have qualified for the “Star District Award” and who will be presented each a personalized “Star District1' plaque soon after June 30, 1982: Mariano T. Pastor, DD# Dr. Godofredo S. Reyes, DD# Victoriano Sarmiento, Jr, DD# Dionisio M. Padua, DD#9 Bernardino N. Ccralde, Sr., DD#0 Mds«;s P. Cr.ting, DD#12 Jorge K. Siriban, DD #13 Patrocinio L. Mrsigan, DD #17 Isidoro L. Zipagang, DD#18 Dioscoro Sobcrano, DD #19 Rosendo S. Dulay, DD #20 Paquito L. Velante, DD #22 Dz. Adolfo R. Reyes, DD #24 Leodegardo M. Prana, DD#28 Antonio M. Ortiguena, DD #32 Ricardo T. Angeles, DD#3 Rogelio Chavez, DD #34 Virgifio V. Calica. DD#35 Rizal S. Pengson; DD #38 Victoriano Macapagal, DD #39 llburdo V. Empaynado, Jr., DD#40 Gfl. A Salazar, DD #42 Jose C. Bongga, DD #43 Dr. Domingo A. Sanchez, DD#44 Oscar B. Mallari, DD #49 EmiHano De Los Santos, DD #52 Dominador E. Comia, DD #53 Jose E. Escaner, DD #55 Job S. De Jesus, DD #57 Hector M. AguHing, DD #58 Frandsco'M. Lazaro, DD #59 Romulo E Paraiso, DD #61 Francisco G. Tonogbanua, DD#62 Regino B. Jante, DD #63 Tomas A Blanco, DD #64 Col. Pedro L. Los Banos, DD#66 Conrado B. Punzalan, DD #68 Angel M. Opena, DD #70 Romeo G. Gandia, DD #71 Benjamin F. Medina, DD # 72 Jaime O. Escolano, DD #73 Crisente Yasonu, DD #74 Dr. Uldarico A. Gorida, DD #76 Dr. Afredo V. Sflva, DD #78 Cesar A. VDlariba, DD #80 Oriaco D. Santos, DD #81 FeHdsimo S. Garin, DD#82 Salvador B. Jamilia, DD #84 Gaudendo M. Espiritu, DD #86 Ssenando L. Cabuso, DD #88 Francisco N. Nadal, DD #90 FrandscoN. bfidea. DD#90 Zacarias C.‘ Salveron, DD #101 Russel' D. Diamante, DD#102 Melchor D. Posadas, DD #106 Augusto Azarraga, DD#107 Severe P. Abad, DD#108 Vivendo Gloria, DD #109 Amado Q. Viray, DD#112 Dr. Ldito SM Tumbocon, DD #113 Arnaldo G. Javelona, DD #114 Atty. Romeo L. Bublin, DD #120 Eustado T. Shnbajon, DD#123 Buenaventura E Canoy, DD #125 Jose B. Delfin, DD#128 CedUo R. Mirioza, DD #129 Simon J. Dulay, Sr., DD#131 Juan E. Infante, DD #132 Atty. Romeo S. Lim, DD #133 Laureano S. Galias, DD#134 Jose U Japzon, DD #136 Atty. Camilo R. Rivera, DD #137 Jesus E. Sozon, DD #139 Gonzalo E. Lelis, DD #140 Dr. Prospero A Ramillos, DD # J 4 2 Dr. Jose GA Geotina, DD #143 VenustianoG. Lambo, DD#144 Bartolome M . Perez, DD #145 Constando L. De la Chiz, Jr, DD #;146 Dr. Rene C. Vargas, DD #47 Crispin L. Young, DD #148 Artemio Obsina, DD #154 ComeKo L. Ipfl, Dd #155 Librado C. Romualdo, DD #156 Lamberto B. Bdoron, DD #;59 Judge Juanito A Bemad, DD #161 Amando T. Palgan, DD #162 Paulino F. Honoguin, DD #164 Achilles E.< Peralta, DD #165 Baltazar G. Buenbrazo, DD #168 Fbmando Z. Sebua, DD#169 Calvin C. Nacalaban, DD #171 Domingo T. Gulmatico, DD #173 Honorio V. De Jesus, DD #175 Dr. Alejandro V. Arenas, DD #176 So&onio R. Cruz, DD #178 Carios A/Millete, DD #179 Dr. Jovendo C. VHlacastirr, DD #180 Antonio Ma, Sr., DD#181 November-December, 1982 Page 5 The United Nations desig nated 1982 as the Year of the Elderly as its concern and commit ment of the year. The 33rd session of the UN General Assembly in 1978 decided that, aside from devoting one year to the old, a World Assembly on Aging be held, as Indeed it was, last July this year In Vienna, Austria. The assembly that highlighted this special year launched an inter national action program among member nations to guarantee social and economic security to older adults. The assembly also decided to offer opportunities to the elders so that they could contribute to national deve lopment. In this connection, an inter-governmental conference was held in Manila in mid-October last year as the first of a series of acti vities to create awareness on the old and their problems. A special year it has been, because there are more and more elderly people in the world today, actively or inactively involved in the communities. The year not only focused attention on the growing number of the elderly but also made the younger generation aware of their presence and how to deal with them. Nicolas Rowe, 18th-century poet laureate of England, noted that “he who is old is wise, experienced, vir tuous." Considered old, elder, aged, senior citizen, is a person 65 years and over. He may also be known as “age less” or a “diamond-ager.” He belongs to the “golden population." Such senior citizens are also deemed “important national resources,” which many countries are not fully utilizing. The international Fede ration on Aging (1FA) points out that “the leadership of nations is in the hands of national leaders whose ages range from 55 and above.” Special year Other facts to consider that made 1982 a special year for the elderly are: (1) they constitute a rich human resource of wisdom, experience, expertise; (2) only they have under gone the struggle and hardship of the years manifested by the gray on their heads and the wrinkles on their 1982 YEAR OF THE ELDERLY faces. They, therefore, deserve to live in dignity, comfort, and peace within the family. In the Philippines, the elderly make up 2.5 million or 4.8 per cent, of the population. Of this, 46 per cent are male, and 54 per cent, female. In Metro Manila alone, there are 24,270 persons above 55 years old. By the turn of the 21st century, the world will be an aging world. Asia’s teeming millions will be sprinkled with elderly people aged 60 years and over within the next 20 years. A UN study shows that by the year 2000, Asia will be the home for 280 million men and women 60 years and over, or nearly half the world’s, elderly population of 580 million. Already the most populous region in the world, Asia approaches the threshold of dramatic change in its age structure. The Manila meeting last year, sponsored by the Philippine Govern ment and the ECOSOC for Asia and the Pacific, pointed out that the “aging” of population is being experienced by all regions of the world as the proportion of elderly people to the young is increasing. But the most dramatic growth in the aging group is taking place in developing countries where, at the same time, rapid economic and social changes are eroding traditional rules and support for the elderly. Aging not Ignored The Vienna meeting held 26 to August 6 this year underscored the unique social and economic cir cumstances being experienced by the elderly population “as well as the need to include the aged in the social, economic and political programming of society.” It called on governments to promote and assist voluntary groups involved in programs to help the elderly so that the problems of the aging are not ignored “against the competing demands of other more organized groups.” Pope John Paul II spoke of the elderly in his Ang lus talk on tije first Sunday of 1982, referring to them as a category of people “so well deserving, but sometimes so badly neglected.” In approving the theme for the World Communications Day, His Holiness evidently intended to urge that professional communications inside and outside the Church should do their part in correcting the neglect. Dr. Estefania Aldaba-Lim says:” . It would be tragic if we in the Philip pines discard our tradition which holds the elderly in the highest esteem and repeat the mistakes of industrialized countries...” To show that the Filipino people have not forgotten, are not forgetting, and will not forget their elderly, a good number of organizations in the Philippines honored the elderly on various dates in 1982 in recognition of their exceptional courage, patJuly riotism, zeal and outstanding achieve ments and contributions to society. Page 6 Bro. Gabriel A Daza receives Outstanding Citizens Award. Aged awardees A tribute to the outstanding Senior Citizens of the Philippines was held in the evening of February 24, 1982, as “Dakilang Handog” at the Philippine Plaza Ballroom by the Ministry of Social Services and Development headed by Hon. Sylvia P. Montes, with His Excellency Ferdinand E. Marcos, President of the Republic of the Philippines, as the Guest of Honor/.. The twelve awardees and their respective fields are: Dona Josefa Edralin Marcos, 89, out standing mother, educator and expo nent of women’s rights; General Carlos P. Romulo, 83, author, edu cator, soldier, diplomat, parliamen tarian and Minister of Foreign Affairs; Ambassador Narciso Ramos, 81, journalist, lawyer, legislator, soldie*-, freedom fighter and diplomat; Don Antonio de las Alas. 92, lawyer, legislator, businessman, civic leader; Don Alfonso Calalang, 82, banker, economist, dedicated public servant; Madame Geronima T. Pecson, 85, educator, underground worker, legis lator, civic leader; Dona Trinidad F. Legarda, 82, educator, exponent of women’s rights, civic leader, philan thropist; Madame Belen Enrile Gu tierrez, 82, educator, exponent of women’s rights, civic leader, devoted public servant: Sir Knight Gabriel A. Daza, 86, dedicated public servant, civic leader, diplomat, religious lay leader, ageless knight; Assembly man Jose P. Bengzon, 83, retired Justice, outstanding public servant, assemblyman; Doha Elena Ver, 81, outstanding mother, exponent of women’s rights; Judge Guillermo Guevara, 96, dedicated public servant, lawyer. The Philippine Movies honored 15 senior actors and actresses for lifetime achievements in the movies in glittering rites dubbed “Walang Kupas” at the P1CC plenary hall, Friday, July 9, 1982, during which nostalgia was the dominant note. To the strains of the background music “Hindi Kita Malimot, ” the idols of Philippine movies went up the stage to receive their trophies and momentarily bask in the limelight that reflected bygone glory. Dona Josefa Edralin Marcos, the Pre sident’s mother, was the guest of honor. Honored are: Rogelio de la •Rosa, 1955 FAMAS best actor awar dee; Carmen Rosales, 1953 FAMAS best actress awardee; Atang de la Rama, “queen of the zarzuela” and great actress-singer; Rosa'del Rosario, “original movie queen”; Leopoldo Salcedo, “the great profile;” Katy de la Cruz, “queen of vaudeville;” Manuel Conde, well-loved “Juan Tamad;” Mary Walter, competent portrayer of mother roles; Amparo Custodio-Moya (Chichay), come dienne; Angel Esmeralda, matinee idol; Norma Blancaflor, top actress of pre-and post-war eras; Corazon Noble, pre-war teaijerker; Elsa Oria, Singing Sweetheart of Philippine Movies; Mila del Sol, star at the age of 14; Lucita Goyena, Queen of Philippine Movies. KC Awardees The Order of the Knights of Columbus in the Philippines con ferred “Seniority Awards” to the oldest knights “for longest conti nuous membership and service to the order and the country.” The awards were presented during the “state dinner” held at the Flat Top of the Pines Hotel in Baguio City, Friday evening, March 26, 1982. The awardees are: Ambassador Oscar Ledesma, KC Philippine Deputy; Atty. Hermenegildo B. Reyes, PGK, PFN, Master of the Fourth Degree (1964-1972); Dr. Ramon F. Campos, PGK, PFN, Master of the Fourth Degree (1950-1964); Atty. Celso B. Jamora, PGK, PFN: Don Gabriel A. Daza; Don Salvador Araneta, Don Jose C. Delgado, Jr.; and Dr. Francisco G. Tonogbanua. PGK, PFN, FDD. Of course, there are other Senior Citizens deserving honors with “Daki lang Handog” by the Ministry of Social Services and Development; and there, too, are other superstars in the Philippine movies equally deserving of honors as “Walang Kupas;” likewise there are other knights in the Order of the Knights of Columbus who are qualified to receive the “Seniority Awards.” Let us not forget them. And let. us reflect with General Carlos P. Romulo who once said that “Growing old is not a crime. No one yet has harnessed time after all. Life’s total sum will prove the best is yet to come;” and his poem, which (Please turn to next page} November-December, 1982 Page 7 1982 YEAR OF THE ELDERLY reflects — “Age is a quality of the mind — If you have left your dreams behind, If you no longer look ahead, If hope is dead. — Then, you are old! But if for life you keep the zeal. And is from life you drew your best, If you hold — No matter how the birthdays fly. No matter how the years roll by,— You are not old! Tln-re is no better age than that of the last years of the elderly, for it is in these last years when a person contemplates more on the closing years of life, recollects more the achievements accomplished in the In his last years an edlderly recollects achievements and meditates on the final day of life. whole span of life, and meditates more on the final day of life. Perhaps, the Personal Reflection that was pre pared by Don Gabriel A. Daza who joined the K of C in 1922, upon his nomination for the “Dakilang Han dog” and delivered by him upon receiving his Senior Citizen Award, may be typical of the elderly’s re flections. It is a tribute to the Out standing Senior Citizens f the Phi lippines, as part of the observance of the International Year of the El derly, the Office of Media Affairs, the Ministry of Public Information that honored the twelve Outstanding Senior Citizens with Dakilang Handog Awards at the Philippine Plaza Hotel Ballroom on February 24, 1982 with the presentation of President Marcos Trophies. Following is the Personal Reflection of Don Gabriel A. Daza: Man-for-others “In the tradition of my Jesuit education whose paramount objective in its basic, advanced and continuing formation of men-for-others — as a prolongation in the modern world of our humanist tradition from the Spiritual Exercises, only by being a man-for-others thus one become fully human — not only in the merely natural sense, but in the sense of being the ‘spiritual’ man of St. Paul. He is the man- filled with the Spirit — and we know whose Spirit that is: The Spirit of Christ Who gave His life for the salvation of the world, and the God, Who, by be coming Man, became beyond all others, a Man-for-others. “In receiving these high acco lades of national honors, the lowly of the human nature is exposed to th<? vain temptation to accept it in its face value, and perhaps, and maybe, temporarily bask in the warmth of its personal vain glory but alas, this is not so in the true theological values of the spirit. "On all the accomplishments that are claimed we have done for others, one must not forget the spirit of God that has inspired it — without Me you cannot do anything — that is, the Providence of God has merely used His humble creature as an instrument of His goodness and love for us, at the service of the community in its social, civic and charitable enterprises. "An honorable citation of this nature may most appropriately pertain to the anonymous number of volun teers in World Scouting who, by their honors, have pledged their best to ‘help other people at all times. ’ “Nonetheless, we must accept in all humility, all these opportunities given oneself to be a man-for-others for the greater honor and glory to God. “Sit nomen Domini benedictum.” Honestly, by sheer coincidence, all these elderly persons were chosen as honorees. To share a blessing with those whose assistance has made possible their personal services to others has been their mark of dis tinction in all their lives. □ —FRANCISCO G. TONOGBANUA In the Bulletin Today for July 25, 1982, Assemblyman Reuben Canoy was reported as having asked President and Mrs. Marcos to lead a moral revolution. The report said: “more than any kind of revo lution, what the country needs today is a moral revolution based on the enduring virtues of honesty, integrity, service, sacrifice and hard work ... No economic, social or political reform program ... can hope to succeed unless it begins in the hearts and minds of those who propose it and those for whom it Is intended.” We think that Assemblyman Canoy is right in the goals he pro poses. We wonder though how he hopes to instill in the hearts of the people loyalty to the virtues he men tions. Apparently he relies on some kind of educational crusade to be led by the First Couple, which will pub licize the worth of virtue. He seems to believe that if properly proposed to the nation the virtues will sell them selves. It is true that the worth and desirability of. virtue are in a measure self-evident. Truthfulness is uni versally esteemed (if not univer sally practised): gratitude is seen by everybody to be beautiful: ingra titude to be ugly. And so with othei virtues. Illusory hope But it is illusory to hope that this general conviction of value or fitness will be strong enough, to impel men to cultivate virtue widely or consistently. Cardinal Newman said: "Quarry the granite rock with razors or moor the vessel with a thread of siik; then you may hope with such keen and delicate, instruments as human knowledge and human reason to contend against those giants, the passion and the pride of man.” The Greek philosopher Plato spent his whole life trying to open men’s eyes to the transce dental value of moral principles. But he realized that this noble truth would never receive universal acceptance because of “the rebelliousness of man's heart,” “the hardness of man’s heart.” This same thought lies behind CROSS Page 8 ABOUT REVOLUTIONS Ovid’s lament: “Video meliora proboque; deteriora sequor.” “I see what is better and approve it; but I follow what is worse.” And St. Paul said more or less the same thing, speaking of the natural, ungraced man. “I cannot understand my own behavior. 1 fail to carry out the things I want to do, and I find myself doing the very things I hate.” What is the reason for this? Newman, quoted above, suggests the reason. Man's passions stand in the way: pride, avarice, lust ... If the rightness of conduct is to be a con vincing rule, it must be recognized as law, as the will of a Being who has a right to- be obeyed. Man needs to realize that good conduct is an obli gation. It is not an elective but an inexorable requirement. In other words, man needs religion, respon sibility to a Perspn. God as re warder Morality needs this personal dimension, that it is a required ser vice of God, of a loving and lovable God to be sure, but a God who will not be defied. Is this a low view of religion and a morbid presentation of morality? There are higher motives, like love and gratitude, and certainly it is desirable that men should act upon them. But God as the re warder of good deeds and the punisher of evil deeds is everywhere in Christ’s teaching. He who "invited men to be sons of God, nevertheless made it clear that man also needed the motive of accountability. Ultimately we are speaking about original sin, namely, the rebellion of a man’s appetites against reason and will. It is this conflict within the human psyche that explains the helplessness of mere reason in the pursuit of virtue. The Council of Trent taught that no one could perse vere in avoidance of grave sin without the special help of God. This special help will be given to those who recog nize God’s rule and seek His help. George Washington in his Fare well Address said: “Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can pervail in the exclusion of religious principles.” Therefore to return to Assembly man Canoy’s suggestion, he has not gone far enough. What is needed is a religious revolution. Morality improved Is the state of religion in* the Philippines so low as to explain the widespread immorality which Mr. Canoy assumes? Is the state of mora lity really low? Let us be content to say that the country will benefit greatly if morality is improved. We may believe that it is not particularly better than world morality of which our Holy Father, John Paul II, on his visit to Fatima, Portugal a few months ago said: “How can we not feel dis mayed in the face of the spread of secularism and permissiveness which so seriously threaten the funda mental values of the Christian norms of morality ... Greater than ever (is) the struggle between the forces of good and evil in our human world. Evil in its incommensurable effects a eady weighs on our present day and seems to close the paths to the future.” We think the Holy .Father’s words are not without their lesson for the Philippines and that there is no hope for a profound moral improve ment except in deepening the in fluence of religion. Religious instruction A powerful, in fact an indispen sable, need for a religious revolution is adequate religious instruction. People cannot love what they do not know. There arc some complaints about religious instruction even in Catholic schools, but wc are thinking of the public schools now. le law makes provisions for religious instruc tion in public schools, and where the Bishops and priests are able to avail themselves of the opportunity, excel lent results arc often achieved. How ever there are various obstacles in the way of the effectiveness of the law’s provisions. First there is the fact that the church authorities arc not able to provide enough qualified teachers. Obviously these teachers have to be trained and paid. That is one obstacle. But even where qua lified teachers can be provided, there arc obstacles on the part of the school authorities. They have the problem of fitting religion into a crowded schedule and into adequate facilities. Unless these school authorities think religion very important, there is danger of their relegating religion to unsuitable hours and to unsatisfactory space. In this way the principles can for all practical purposes defeat the aims of the law. The First Lady has distinguished herself by her energy in promoting al) kinds of projects for the good of the country. If only she would apply her energies to making religious instruction, as now by law’ allowed, real and effective in all the public schools of the Philippines, she would be conferring a much greater benefit on the country than all her measures for the advancement of the economy, art, science and health. If irf addition the government would pay teachers of religion ... but maybe we better not bring that up! In any case it will be well for all to remember what Sacred Scripture says: “If God does not build the house, in vain the masons toil: if God does not guard the city in vain the sentries watch.” □ —REV. LEO A. CULLUM, S.J. November-December, 1982 Page 9 In the outer fringes of the vast and sprawling capital of Mexico, in a district which the local inha bitants call “La Villa,” there stands the great basilica to our Lady of Guadalupe. The principal object of interest in that church Is a rectangular piece of cloth which Is encased in glass above the main altar. That cloth Is not made of silk or wool or any kind of rich material. It Is worn of the coarsest kind of fiber, such as the poor native “Indians” of Mexico used to wear for their clothing. This piece of cloth should have lasted only a few years or at most a few de cades. It has lasted more than four and a hau centuries. The really remarkable thing about that piece of cloth is the image on it. It is not a painted image. How that picture got ingrained into the cloth is of course a well known story., On the 9th of December 1531 a middle-aged Indian peasant named Juan Diego was walking near the foot of the hill of Tepeyac, which at that time was an uninhabited place some distance from Mexico City but not far from the Indian Village. He saw a woman who seemed to him bathed in light. She told him to go to the city and tell the bishop that he should build a chapel near that spot. Strange lady Juan Diego, ignorant and illite rate, did what he was told. He went to the bishop and told him that he had seen a strange lady, and mentioned what the Lady had said. Predictably, the bishop and his priests did not believe the Indian. Possibly they even laughed at him. One could not blame the bishop. After all, what proof was there? The bishop was a Franciscan named Zumarraga, the first bishop of this vast continent that was just begin ning to be Christianized. Quite cor rectly, the bishop demanded proof. Juan Diego, having complied with the Lady’s instructions and having failed in his mission, went home; but he was careful to avoid the hill of Tepeyac. He did not want to see the Lady again: she would only tell A PIECE OF CLOTH .“A woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of t velve stars.” him to go back and sec the bishop, and this he did lot wish to do. To be laughed at once is enough. Why return for more dicule? For three d ys nothing happened. Then on December 12 one of Juan Diego’s relatives fell seriously ill and it was felt necessary to summon the priest. To do so, Juan Diego had to pass near he hill of Tepeyac although he tried to go around it. But the Lady was there, waiting for him. She said: “Do not worry about your sick relative. He is now well. But go and tell the bishop that he must build a chapel on this spot.” “But, my Lady,” said Juan Diego, “the bishop wants proof.” The Lady said, “well, then, bring him proof. Go and gather roses and bring them to him.” Roses? In December? At an alti tude of a mile and a half above sea level? But there were roses. Juan Diego gathered them. He had no basket, so he took off the coarse cloak that he wore about him (like a sarong) and wrapped the roses in it. Picture In cloth At the bishop’s house the Indian opened his bundle and the roses fell to the floor. But to their amaze ment, a picture had become ingrained in the cloth in which the roses had been wrapped. It is that picture which is still visible on that piece of cloth in Mexico City today, 451 years after the event. It is a remarkable picture. It shows the Lady as Juan Diego had seen her. She is standing, dressed in a simple robe that reaches down to her feet, caught at the waist by a simple sash. Her hands are joined at her breast. Her head is inclined slightly forward, as if looking at Juan Diego. From her body are emanating rays of many colors as if she is bathed in light. Her bare feet are stepping upon a crescent moon, and upon a feathery cape like object which was the syinbol of the serpent-god which had been adored and feared by the pagan Indians. In short, the Lady appeared in the guise and posture which we now recognize as the symbol of the Immaculate Conception. At that time of course the dogma of the Imma culate Conception had not yet been defined. This was 1531; more than three centuries were to elapse before Pope Pius IX would define the dogma in 1854. Meantime in the universities and the printing presses of Europe, the learned theologians would debate this issue: Was Mary conceived free from the slightest blemish of sin. or was she not? The Franci-».,ins and the Jesuits argued in favor, others against. But in Mexico an ignorant Indian needed no arguments. He himself had seen her as the Woman in the Apocalypse: ” A woman clothed with the sun. with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. "(Apoc. 121) Chapel for Indians The subsequent history of Gua(Please turn topage 17) Page 10 CROSS The National Chaplain Speaks Sr The Knights of Columbus is commenloratirfg today the centenary celebration of the organization with this Holy Sacrifice, the greatest act of thanksgiving. It is, indeed, proper that it should be done today, for October 12 is Columbus Day. Much has been written about the deep religious faith of Christopher Columbus. That he was a devout Catholic is evident in a number of his deeds. Letters and docu ments signed by him with his anagram read: “Suppliant servant of the Almighty Saviour — Jesus, Mary, Joseph— The bearer of Christ (i.e. Christopher). The records show that one of the Great Admiral’s first acts after putting out to sea, was to summon the crews to his flagship, the Santa Maria, to hear the Chap lain’s invocation to Almighty God for His blessing on the perilous adventure. The records of the voyages further show that Columbus turned to God for help when storms, tempests, shoals and reefs threatened disaster. Thanks giving to God was his first thought on sight of land and in the ceremony of landing on shore he raised and planted the standard of the Cross. From his letter to Rafael Sanchez, Treasurer of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, written on March 14, 1493, on board the caravel and returning from his first voyage, we learn that the first land he discovered he named San Salvador (Holy Saviour) “under whose protection I made the discovery.” And the second, Santa Maria de la Concepcion- He gave gifts to the natives, cautioning his men to make friends, in order that they may receive the faith of Jesus Christ, and be well disposed towards us. In tills same letter (published in Barcelona, May 1493) the first publication concerning America, Columbus gives further evidence of his great humility and piety, chronicling “that the great success of this enterprise is not to be ascribed to my own merits, but to the holy Catholic faith and the piety of our Sovereigns. The Lord often granting to men what they never imagine them selves capable of effecting, as He is accustomed to hear the prayers of His servants and those who love His com(Address delivered by His Eminence, Jaime Cardinal L. Sin, Archbishop of Manila, on the occasion of the Knights of Columbus Day, October 12, 1982 at the Metropolitan Cathedral at 6:00 p. m.) mandments. even in that which appears impossible.” A great faith in God, and a great desire to spread that faith. In a letter addressed to Pope Alexander VI, Columbus, seeking missionaries to accompany him, wrote: “1 trust that, by God’s help, 1 may speak the Holy Name and Gospel of Jesus Christ as widely as may be. ” Columbus’ fidelity to Jesus was dramatically epito mized in his last hour on earth. His last words were: “Into Thy hands, 0 Lord, I commend my spirit.” On the occasion of Columbus’ day , it is fitting that we should recall to mind the history of the Knights of old and bathe ourselves with the spirit with which they are inbued. Perhaps, never in the history of the Christian world has there been such a proportionate dearth of such truly great men as at the present time. To find the cause one need seek no farther than the low ebb to which Christian ideals have fallen in the materialistic age in which we live. Never, perhaps, has the world witnessed such restless activity as at present. Men have seldom dis played such tremendous energy, but our ideals are inferior, our. aims are restricted to the narrow limits of ‘material progress, and the higher scope of spiritual per fection does not enter largely into the calculation of this modern world. i The result is inevitable, men will never rise higher than their soured of inspiration. Men will not overshoot their ideals. For unconsciously our ideals become our standards of appraising success, and thus it has come to pass that material progress is at present the yardstick of the world’s idea of greatness. Spirituality and its fruits have lost their general appeal. We all feel the painful influence of this marked ten dency of our modern civilization, and while it may shock us, yet it is hardly surprising to see that the world is unappreciative of its truly great heroes, saints of God, and sets no niche for them in its hall of fame. We do not mean to disparage the contributions made by great minds of today to material science and kindred fields. Great minds alone do not make truly great men. No mind, however great, will ever produce a truly great ,man if it grovels only in matter to the exclusion of the spirit. No generation which makes a fetish of material might and (Please turn to next page} Page 11 November-December, 1982 “Let us stand and give challenge to all of those who would overthrow our true Filipino way of life.*’ power to the exclusion of God will ever be truly great. Nineteen hundred years ago, our Divine Saviour formed His Church and on the first Pentecost Day. in the person of the Holy Spirit, God breathed into it a soul and sent it forth to do battle in His name. His was a mili tant Church and armed with the sword of the spirit, the word of God, and the cross of Christ, it joined in battle first with the idolatrous paganism of ancient Greece and Rome, a paganism that deified lust, the passions and the lower appetites of human nature, made graven images to represent them and offered to them divine homage. The war of God’s Church against these powers of evil was a long and bloody one. For three hundred years the streets of Rome and the principal cities of her mighty empire ran red with the blood of Christian martyrs. The cause of Christ, however, emerged triumphant. The Statues of Jupiter, Venus, Minerva, and Kindred Gods were over thrown and the stones of their temples were used to build Christian Churches to house our Eucharistic Christ. The Church again armed with naught but the sword of the Spirit and the Cross of Christ, went forth and con quered. As with the Greeks and the Romans, she saw something good in these wild people, she saw that their indomitable courage, their loyalty to authority, their respect for womanhood were worth saving. Out of the warrior, She made what we have come to know as the Knight. She turned them for their inspiration from Wodin to the one true God and used them to fight against the enemies of the Cross. They were those same German clans who, in after years, fighting as Christians under Charles, turned back the invading hordes of the Crescent. Knights of Columbus, some 100 years ago when Fr. McGivney called together the little group of his parish ioners to found your fraternal organization, Columbus and the Knights of old must have, been in his mind when he decided to call you Knights of Columbus. The men of his society were to be, like this great model of Knight hood, noblemen, men of Christian ideals, men willing to make sacrifice to do, and if necessary, to die in defense of those ideals. The true Columbian will, like the Knight of old, hold his standard high, nor will he let ought be smirch it. He will die if need be, in defense of his soul, his religion, his home, his country. Recall to mind those Knights who are gone and will come back no more. Don Benito Soliven and countless others whose memories will forever remain, who fought for an ideal so that the religion they love might never be lowered. We are confident that the sacrifice they made will not be in vain. But there is another foe more insidious than the first. We are now in times of war, not only in the material world but in the world of ideas in the world of souls. It is a fact of whose reality we are fully convinced that man has reached the summit of malice and perversion so far as to join Satan in his hatred and detestation of God. A godless campaign, atheistic propaganda and the moral debacle rampant in our country today are but waves of a hellish lava spreading over the earth. Unfortunately but very real are the pre valent drawbacks: lack of character, weakness of faith, religious indifference, detestable human respect. It seems as if we have degenerated from the glorious lineage of our forefathers in the faith, forfeiting our golden heritage and holding in contempt the memory and the achieve ments of our predecessors. The more to be feared are the rulers of the world of this darkness, the spirit of wicked ness, that are attacking the very national fabric of this land which we all so dearly love. 1 speak of those false philosophies of domestic and national life so insidiously gaining ground in our midst today. We love to boast of our present progress but without the Christian philosophy of life, we have lost the very height, the guide, the consoler, the neutral and impartial judge to the detriment of our society. The history of the Knight is full of the most striking examples of fortitude and fearless confession of faith by those who proudly avowed their unconditional allegiance and unswerving adherence, to Christ from whom we should learn to uphold the divine tenets in the face of opposition, contradiction, persecution and sacrifice. Wc love to sing, “Land of the morning, cradle of noble heroes, ne’er shall invaders trample its sacred shores." The thing that makes the Philippines so great in our eyes and beloved by all right thinking men is her soul, the Christian Philosophy of life upon which she was founded and by which she has lived and prospered these last few years. Today, we see some philosophies creeping even into our government that would tend not only to destroy these God-given rights and freedoms but to take from us much that we hold dear through our ties to God and Holy Mother Church, If, therefore, you are to be knights worthy of the name, you must stand and give challenge — challenge to all of those who would overthrow our true Filipino way of life; who would challenge the Church just for a meaningless and false patriotism; challenge to all of those who would tear from our souls and from the souls of our children the knowledge, love and reverence of God. You must stand and give challenge to anyone who would attempt to take from us our threefold loves — love of God, love of country, and love of the Church. You are not worthy of the name of a knight if you stand inactively by or falter in this great contest among the powers of e\il which is raging today in our very midst. Today, as we reconsecrate ourself to the high ideals of true knighthood, learn from the knights of old to pre pare yourself for the battle by cleansing our own souls Page 12 CROSS PRESIDENT MARCOS CITES PRESS’ “SURGE of ZEAL” President Ferdinand E. Marcos cited the press September 8 for enterprise in reportage on national development efforts and for “a surge of zeal" among those playing the role of critics and judges of Govern ment. Speaking at the annual conven tion of the Publishers Association of the Philippines (PAPI), the Pre sident urged the press to keep trying "to see and seek out the truth and meaning of realities and events." He pledged support for enterprising publications. "No one should ever fear that a vital and dynamic publi cation will not find support in our society.” On the other hand, he warned against “the tendency on two sides of the spectrum in the press to purvey only the dogmatisms and prejudices of the day.” He also deplored the growing trend in the sensational reporting of crime and sex as a remedy to monotony and a means to sharpen the interest of readers. “In the competition for readers, crime is dramatized well beyond its real dimensions in our society and gossip, and scandal have become the standards for entertainment fare," President Marcos said. The -First Lady. Minister of Human Settlements Imelda Romualdez* Marcos, who had earlier cut the ribbon opening the Food Fair on the second floor of the Philippines International Convention. Center, at tended the PAPI meeting as a special guest. During the ceremonies, the Pre sident presented to General Hanz Menzi, publisher of Bulletin Today, a plaque of appreciation from the PAPI for "his unwavering fidelity to the principle of free press and as a prime mover of mass media." General Menzi was the founding chairman of the PAPI. President Marcos called on the publishers as well as the editors, advertisers and Government sector to "sit down together-to give better deal for our provincial publishers." He noted that it- is the provincial press “that services the greater majority of our people who have the least access to information by reason of income, distance and the higher costs of national publications." He challenged publishers to rationalize the industry nationwide by integrating facilities and pooling resources to allow community newspapers to expand into provincial and regional publications. In this way, provincial papers would build up enough circu lation to merit advertising support from Manila-based companies. He also discussed book publishing, noting that the book industry was seriously underdeveloped. He called for a thorough study of the industry. PAPI Presiding Officer Kcrima Polotan-Tuvcra said there arc 1,418 Publishers in the association. Bro. Francisco G. Tonogbanua, editor of the CROSS magazine and editorin-chief of the PBA BULLETIN, represented the Knights of Columbus in the convention. Justice Minister Ricardo C. Puno, PGK of San Pedro Bautista Council No. 6116 in San Francisco del Monte, Metro Manila, said that excessive publicity on cases undergoing preli minary investigation "can impair the fundamental right of the accused to a fair and impartial trial." In a speech also at the convention of the Publishers Association, Bro. Puno said that while fair and accurate publication serves as a deterrent to crime, excessive publicity can cause irreparable damage to the reputation not only of the accused but of the offended party. The Minister proposed that the press take upon itself a more cons tructive role, focus upon what is right and good, and dwell on what is moral and ethical. □ from any vices or false ideals against which, as true knights, you arc to fight. With souls dean before God. with courage born of divine grace, you may feel confident of ultimate victory because the legions of heaven will be on your side. We need men who could nurture in them selves the vigour of life that has left the veins of the knights of old; the purity of ideals that has been conta minated in their brains; the fire of enthusiasm that has been quenched in their hearts, for in you lies the spirit of a great tradition and as those knights of old were called to die lor their faith, you are now called to live for her so that out of the agony and ashes of our past, we may* build a better world than those knights of old ever dreamt November-December, 1982 of. Go forth, therefore, and let your cry ever be the cry of the crusading knights of old. “God wills it.” I do not say that God has destined all of us to be exceptionally great men, but 1 do believe that God has called us to be greater than we arc, for: “Lives of great men all remind us that we can make our lives sublime', for departing they left behind us footprints on the sands of time." Amen. God bless you. and remember that I love you all very dearly. □ —JAIME L. CARDINAL SIN Archbishop of Manila Page 13 UNITY George Bernard Shaw’s play, “Back to Methuselah." contains a scene in which Adam and Eve are conversing with the serpent in the garden of Eden. Adam and Eve have just exchanged vows of love until death. The serpent tells Eve: “You have just invented marriage. And what he will be to you and to no other woman is husband. And what you will be to him and not to any other man is wife.” Adam is taken by the idea and exclaims, “Husband and wife!” Eve responds with a subtle change of phrasing, “Wife and husband!" And the serpent begins to laugh because he sees problems have already started. For many reasons — some unique to our time, most of human creation, relationship of all kinds — with others, with creation, with ourselves, are strained and-some times broken. The Knights of Columbus family is not exempted from this conflict. Let me just give you a few examples, exaggerated maybe, but planned that way for a purpose: Scene 1 — I am the Faithful Navigator of this as sembly constituted by 15 Councils. I am higher than the District Deputies. 1 think I will call them to a meeting and I will visit all the Councils under me. Scene 2_ Put an S.K. before the name. That is the proper way to. address a 4th degree member. Palibhasa 1st and 2nd degree members lang kayo, wala kayong alam. This is the reason sometimes I prefer to attend Assembly meetings. Scene 3__Why did you not meet me at the airport? I am a ranking officer of the 4th degree. And whs did you get another guest speaker? I should be the guest speaker. If you refuse to change the program, I will go home. Scene 4 — Hoy ... boy ... put chairs here in the sacristy for the honor guards and also tell the Master of ceremonies that they should be seated at the presidential table during the dinner, ha! Incidents such as these occur from time to time and are sources of irritants and sometimes cause divisions in our fraternity. How sad! Fortunately, solutions are within our reach. On the practical level, firstly perhaps, we should all try to become more conversant with our KC Constitution. Laws and Rules governing the 4th degree, and KC pro tocol. Let us always remember that the 4th degree is (Address delivered by Msgr. Francisco G. Tantoco, Jr. to the 4th Degree Knights, Cebu City, Oct. 9, 1982) only a part of the whole organization. It is not over and above it. And that is the reason why in KC protocol (point out) it is interesting to note that (1) In either a Council or Assembly function, the Phil. Deputy ranks before the Master (2) The District Deputy ranks before the Faithful Navigator (3) Faithful Navigators are on the level of Grand Knights. Secondly, perhaps we should not overstep our bound aries. Assemblies should concern themselves with pat riotic activities. There are crying needs of the hour in Philippine society — justice for everyone for example, war against graft and corruption, and many others. Our revered patriot. Fr. Jose Burgos in his “La Lobo Negra" - (The Black She-Wolf) remarked: "There is still much to do. We have hardly started. The harder tasks are yet to be done. For perfect justice never existed nor will it ever exist as long as tyrant and criminal live. My country men, you must strive to give ... to others still to come ... a better way of life, a free atmosphere .. even at the sac rifice of your blood. ’' Let us leave the regular and routine activities to the Councils. And in the Councils let the 4th degree members be exemplars, facilitators, and stimulators — not supe riors. If ever they are to be superiors, let it be in the quality of their service to church, community and the brotherhood. What I have proposed thus far may only be consi dered palliative al best. If we wish a more permanent and lasting solution..we have to find the cause ... and the cause as we all know is a five letter word ... P...R...I...D...E — the mother of all sins. Truly has the Wise Man said — "The beginning of all sin is pride” (Ecclus. X.15). It is pride that separates man from God; and man from man. It is pride that produces quarrels and divisions. If we want unity ... we have to go back to the cross of Christ which broke down the barriers of sin and division and reconciled us with God and with one another. Jesus foretold this unifying act when he said ”... and I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to myself.” LEARN OF ME BECAUSE I AM MEEK AND HUMBLE OF HEART, Our Lord further instructs us. The blessed St. Augustine says: "The whole life of Christ on earth was a lesson to us. and He was master of all virtues, but especially of humility; it was that parti cularly which He wished ns to learn of H'n' " That were Page 14 CROSS' Knight in the News bon Salvador Araneta, prominent industrialist, educator and public servant, died on Thursday, October 7, 1982, the Feast of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, at the age of 80, after receiving the Holy Sacrament. He was born in Manila on January 31,1902. A noted constitutionalist, Bro. Araneta was a delegate to both the 1934 and the 1971 Constitutional Conventions. He served as Secre tary of Economic Coordination in 1950-1952 under President Elpidio Quirino and as Secretary of Agri culture and Natural Resources in 1954-1955 under President Ramon Magsaysay. SK Araneta obtained his A.B. degree from the Ateneo de Manila in 1918 and his Ll.B. degree with highest honors (meritissimus) from the University of Santo Tomas in 1922. He entered Harvard University as a special student in its law school pursuing advanced studies in poli tical science. Fordham University conferred on him the honorary degree (honoris causa) of Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) in 1946. Among the institutions founded by Don Salvador are the Gregorio Araneta University Foundation, Feati University, and the Republic Flour Mills Corporation. SK Araneta as a Catholic Gentle man was a Pontifical Knight of the Order.of St. Sylvester and a Knight of the Grand Cross and Lieutenant of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem. He joined the Manila Council No. 1000 of the Knights of Columbus in 1930, and ever since until his death, he was an active member of the Order in the Philippines. Only last March 28, 1982, he was one of the eight oldest knights in the country honored during the KC national centennial convention in Baguio City with the K of C Se niority Award “for longest continuous membership and service in the country.” Don Salvador is survived by his wife Dona Victoria; daughters and sons-in-law, Jose and Carmen Se govia; Antonino and Ana Marie Santos-Ocampo; Jose and Maria Victoria Concepcion; Danilo and Maria Lina Santiago; and Enrique and Regina Teodoro. Bro. Araneta’s remains were transferred to the Rizal Hall of the Gregorio Araneta University Foun dation in Victoneta Park, Malabon, from the RFM Corporation Chapel in Mandaluyong on October 11. Burial took place on October 12 after a 3:00 p.m. Mass at our Lady of Victory Chapel of the University. enough for us to understand how great must be the excellence of this virtue and how great the need that we ha»c of it. since the Son of God came down from heaven to earth to teach it to us and wished to be our special instructor therein, not in word alone, but much more particularly in work, since all His life was an example and living pattern of humility. The glorious St. Basil goes through the whole life ol Christ front His birth, showing And reflecting how all. His actions teach us particularly this virtue. He chose, he says, to be bom of a poor mother, in a poor stable and in a manger, and to be wrapped in poor swaddling clothes. He chose to be cir cumcised as a sinner, to fly into Egypt as too weak to protect Himself, to be baptized among sinners and publicans as though He were one of them. Afterwards in the course of His life, when they sought to honor and exalt Him for king, He hid Himself; and when they sought to.outr.agc and dishonor Him, then He put Himself in their power. When men and even those possessed by devils would extol Him. He bade them be silent; and when they mocked Him, uttering injurious words. He said nothing. And at the end of His life, to leave us a further commendation of this virtue, as His last will and testa ment. He confirmed it by that marvelous example of washing His disciples’ feel, and that so ignominious death on the cross. But why is so great a majesty so humbled? Ut non apponat ultra magnificare se homo super terram (Psalm IX. 18) — “That from this time forth there may be no man daring to be proud and lift himself up upon the earth” — it was always folly and impudence for man to be proud; but particularly now that the Majesty of God has abased .and humbled himself, says St. Bernard. “It is shameless ness intolerable and gross vulgarity for a vile worm of a man to seek to be regarded and esteemed. The Son of God, equal to His. Father, takes the form of a servant and chooses to be humbled and treated with ignominy; and do I, dust and ashes, seek to be regarded and es teemed?” LEARN FROM ME BECAUSE 1 AM WEAK AND HUMBLEOF HEART. If we continue to imitate the Jove of Jesus, our Savior, on the cross, and is we persevere in love for one another, then we shall preserve the bonds of unity, not only in our fraternity, but also in the church and witness the fulfillment of Jesus’ prayer: “Father ...that they may be one."(Jn 17:11) And then with the psalmist we can sing: “Behold how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity.” □ —MSGR. FRANCISCO G. TANTOCO, JR. KC National Secretary November-December, 1982 Page 15 WHO GETS THE CREDIT The catechism tells us that creation is: ' 'making something out of nothing. " For example, a human being is composed of "nothing: plus the creative action of God."' There was nothing, and then God acted upon this nothing, and a human being came into existence. Let us illustrate this with a diag9 — o + A Man is nothing plus the creative aclion of God But creation is not just an act of God that happened once in the life of a human being. God does not act with man the way a boy might act with a small wooden top that he spins off from the end of a piece of string. Such a spinning top, sepa rated from the hand of the boy, takes upon itself a separate life or existence. Man is not like that. Man is forever in the hands of God. He is forever being kept in existence. He is forever being continually created. Let us imagine what would happen if God were to remove, for a moment, his creative hands from beneath us. Would we gasp, for breath and then fall dead to the ground like a sack of rice? No. If God ceased creating us and ceased keeping us in existence, then we would return to our original state: nothingness. We would simply vanish, being blotted out of the book of existence. God is not only giving us breath every moment of our life but he is continually giving us our very being and existence. If it is true that a human person — apart from (Jod’s creative action — is nothing, then who should take credit for all the good things that come forth from man? Since good cannot come from nothing, then the good things that a man does, with his bwn free will and cooperation, must have God as their origin and source. Another illustration may help Us to see the point that since “nothing cannot be the source of good works'* then only God can be the source of man’s good works: Take, for example, a student who works hard in school and finally wins an honor card. Who is responsible for his good marks and to whom should all the praise and honor be given? If we were to say that to God alone belongs the honor and praise for all the good coming forth from the hands of man. then this student might st rongly object saying that it was his sweat and not God’s sweat that was expended in'poring aver his books. It was his eye strain and his loss of sleep that was the price that had to be paid for his honor card. “True,” the stud ent might say, “God gave me the brains, but it was I who used my brains to achieve my gtal! ” A good case. But a rejoinder 'may. be added, where did this student’s desire to excel come from? Surely it did not come Cor. 4:7). And later on, in his second letter to the Corinthians (10:17), St. Good Worksop Good Works - o + X A Man is nothing plus God, the source of his good works from “nothing.” Where did his st rength and good health come from? And who gave him his teachers and his parents, and his textbooks? St. Paul says that we cannot even desire to say “Jesus is Lord” unless the Holy Spirit first gives us this desire (1 Cor. 12:3). Again, now speaking to the Philippians (2:13), St. Paul says the same thing: “For it is God who worketh in you, both to will and to accom plish.” And summing it all up, Jesus says in John 15:5: “for without me, you can do nothing.” In the “Great Amen ,” at the end of the Canon in the Roman Mass, we find the words “all glory and honor is yours, Almighty. Father, forever and ever. Amen.” These words do not say "much'glory and hdnor” at "most glory and honor” but "all glory and honor is yours, Almighty Father.” We are not saying here that we dis approve of the distribution of medals and honor cards. We approve of such honors being given to people so long as the honorees accept them graciously, knowing all the while, that “without Him we can do nothing” and that, pro perly speaking, we must, in our heart, refer “all glory and honor to Him alone.” St. Augustine (didd in 430) tells us that man will be rewarded for his co operation with grace but he reminds us that: “When God crowns our merits he is really crowning his own gift to* us.” St. Paul was obsessed with giving glory to God alone. The words of the boaster pained him terribly: “Who made you superior to others? Didn’t God give you everything you have? Well, then, how. can you boast, as if what you have were not a gift? ” (1 Page 16 ^cLove \ * mm Ute UL- 1. 1| OR L VERYONE PUBLISHED BY THE PRO-LIFE MOVEMENT, PHILIPPINES 1 November-December, 1982 CHARITY NOT DESIRED; ONLY THE SAME RIGHTS AND FREEDOM AS OTHERS Beatitudes of the Mentally Retarded Blessed are they who comprehend my strange gait and awkward hands. Blessed are they who understand that my ears must strain to comprehend what they hear. Blessed are they who understand that though my eyes shine my mind is slow. Blessed are they who do not notice the food I le^ fall off my plate. Blessed are.they who with a smile encourage me to try once more. Blessed are they who never remind me today I asked the same question two times. Blessed are they who understand that it is difficult for me to put my thoughts into words. Blessed are they who listen to me because I too have something to con tribute. Blessed are they who know what my heart feels even though 1 may not be able to express it. Blessed are they who respect me and love me as I am, just as 1 am, and not like they wish I were. Blessed are they who help me on my pilgrimage to the home of the Eternal Father., “REAL PITY” MEANS LIFE "Real pity-for the difficulties and troubles of human life does not consist in suppressing the one who is the fruit either of sin or of human sorrow. 1t consists rather in relieving, consoling and alleviating suffering, misery, the sharrie of weakness, or of human passion: but -never killing human life! This we ought to reflect on when confronted with the sad and ignoble recourse to legalized abortion. We must.remind the young, every one, of (he dangers and disasters of passion replacing love; and of the inviolable dignity of human life, even in its most secret and humble stages; and promote? every possible and worthy assistance for needy (Please turn to P-L D) Psychiatry "Society tends to consider the meaning of life as pursuit of pros perity. conceived mainly in economic or merely hedonistic terms. The person who is mentally ill may then become a sign of contradiction, for he is in capable of reaching this type of prosperity, far less contribute to col lective pursuit of it, and he runs the risk of being excluded all the more. But is is precisely here that the Christian view of man opens salutary perspectives for the mentally sick person and those around him. For according to this view, the full mean ing of life is not limited to pursuit of prosperity. It does not ignore, it does not deny the tragic dimension of life, with which the cross has made it familiar. It does not consider aid to the handicapped person as meaningless, even if there were little or no hope, of a complete cure. It is aware of applying here the essentail part of the Good News: ‘Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy’ (MT. 5:7) and it regards mercy not as a condescending attitude which harms the dignity of one who receives it, but precisely as a way of respecting and recognizing his wounded dignity in order to increase it (cf Encyclical Lives in Misericordia, Nos 2,6,14). This ‘poor’ person is, in fact, the object of God’s love of his salvation (Please turn to P-L D) CBOSS Supplement PRO-LIFE A A VERY SPECIAL PERSON by John MacElroy When I was seven years old, my brother Matt was bom. Living with him and watching him grow up was a great experience when I was a child, and it still is today. I am sure that when I am older I will consider it the experience of my lifetime. Although I have five other bro thers, Matt is, to me, special. Like any other kid. Matt plays sports, watches television, goes to school everyday, eats a lot, and likes to tag along with his older brothers. But what makes Matt so special is that he is mentally retarded. When Matt was born, the doctor advised my parents to place Matt in an institution. They were horrified by the thought, and refused to do it. Although they didn’t know the full meaning of mental retardation or its consequences, they brought him to our home, where he will always remain. Today, no one regrets the deci sion. It was a difficult task for my parents to explain to us that Matt would be different than we were. All five of us were between the ages of three and ten. They would say that Matt wouldn’t be as “strong” as the rest of us. Later the word was “slow.” Matt would be slow in developing, they said. He wouldn’t talk as well as we do, or be as smart. Gradually we all learned that Matt wasn’t, and would never be, what society terms “a normal person.” But my parents always said that in God's eyes Matt was an angel and a very special person. It Made No Difference It never made any difference to me, my brothers, or my sister. Even though we knew he would be difA Ninth Grader Writes About His Brother ferent. Matt was still our brother. We played with him and took him out, and gradually we saw no diffe rence in him from any other child. His speech was mostly mumbled, but we could understand him per fectly. Before he started going to school when he was six. Matt would spend the days when we were gone playing games with my mom, dr watching television. Because everyone in the family likes to play and watch sports. Matt has also become an armchair sports fan. From -watching he has learned a lot about sports. We let him play in games with us. and he does perfect imitations of the mannerisms of umpires, referees, pitchers, guarterbacks, and hitters. Although he likes baseball, football, and basketball, his favorite sports are wrestling and roller derby. He has his bad sides, too. He can be very stubborn, and because he gets most of the attention, he’s not happy unless he’s the center of the action. But we don’t seem to notice his bad habits as much as his good ones. It Has Made Me Better I can honestly say that having a brother like Matt has made me a much better person. It has opened me up tv problems that most people don’t even know exist. I know now that there is nothing wrong with a handicapped person, and nothing to be ashamed of. We’re not ashamed that Matt is our brother. We're proud. Every body who knows him likes him. That includes neighbors, family friends, relatives, teachers, and doctors. The very same doctor who recommended that we place Matt in an institution is now one of his best friends. Having Matt as my brother has also showed me just how cruel people can be. Some people stare at him, or laugh; or look at him like he’s some thing to be afraid of. They don’t understand. that he’s really just an innocent kid with a great personality who, through no' fault of his own. cannot grasp what we can. Often we will play baseball out in front of our house and people will walk by and laugh or point at him. It breaks you up inside — until'you PRO-LIFE B CROSS Supplement AT LAST THE TRUTH EMERGES: ABORTION IS NOT SAFER THAN CHILDBIRTH (The author of this article is a former) president of the National Youth Pro-Life Coalition, U.S.A. The article appeared in the National Right to Life News of the 13th of July 1981 ■which is published in Washington. D.C. It is reproduced here with permission.) Everyone is familiar with the old cannard that having an abortion, at least during the first trimester, is safer than continuing a pregnancy to childbirth. When it legalized abortion in 1973. the Supreme Court relied on what is called the “established medical fact” that in the first trimester maternal “mortality in abortion is less than mortality in childbirth.” It now turns out that the famous “cpmparison" actually contrasted the incidence of abortion deaths with the incidence of pregnancy related deaths — the latter including (surprise!) all those abortion deaths. This and other statistical errors lie behind the “established medical look at Matt. He still has a smile on his face because he doesn’t notice and he never will. I don’t notice the stares any more. 1 used to get angry at these people, but now I realize that they just don’t know. Because they don't know, these people are. the same ones who hate blacks because the color of their skin isn’t just like their own, who hate people with long hair because they don’t like the way. it looks, or who think that all* Italians are members of the Mafia. They just can’t get it through their heads that, basically, all people are the same. Matt is not inhuman. He’s not some kind of animal. He is as human as you or me or anyone else. When Matt’s sad he cries, and when he’s happy he laughs. From: LIFE & FAM IL YNEWS. July. 1981 fact”. Pro-lifers have long suspected that this claim is false, relying on the many reports of abortion complications and the logical assumption that per forming surgery on a healthy woman is likely to increase, not decrease, risk. But only very recently, has a comprehensive and scholarly study been done of the often cited statis tics to determine the accuracy of the claim. Dr. Thomas Hilgers and Dennis O’Hara have written an article entitled “Abortion-Related Maternal Morta lity: An In-Depth Analysis”, in the just published anthology New Pers pectives on Human Abortion”. It documents the manner in which mortality statistics have been distorted in the .past, and demonstrates that when corrected, these statistics have been distorted in the past, and de monstrates that when corrected, these statistics show that, in terms of maternal mortality, natural pregnancy is safer than abortion throughout the full nine months. Traditionally, the “Maternal Mortality Rate" is compared to the maternal death rate associated with abortions performed during a given week of pregnancy. But while the abortion mortality rate is. presented as the ratio of the number of abortionrelated maternal deaths to the number of cases of abortion, the “Maternal Mortality Rate” is the ratio of the number of pregnancy-related maternal deaths to the number, of live births. There are several things wrong with this comparison. First, not all pregnancies end in live birth. Some are ectopic or molar, and some end in stillbirth and spon taneous abortion — about .20%, in fact. With regard to the ratios referred to above, maternal deaths from such pregnancies are included in the numerator but the pregnancies themselves are not included in the denominator. This makes pregnancy seem less safe than it is if you are told you have 3 in 10 chances of dying, for example, that seems worse than having 3 in 12 chances. Second, if a woman has completed 12 weeks of pregnancy and is consi dering an abortion, the real compa rison is between the safety of the re maining 24 weeks and of the abortion. Yet the traditional numbers compare the risks of the entire pregnancy — including chances of death which the woman has already safely passed — with those of the abortion alone — making the continuation of the preg nancy seem less safe than it is. Third, abortion docs not eliminate ectopic pregnancy or its risks, in general, one is equally at risk from dying from ectopic pregnancy if one has a suction abortion of what is in fact an empty womb than if one does not. Yet, the risks from ectopic preg nancy are traditionally included only in the “Maternal Mortality Rate but excluded from the abortion maternal mortality rate. This makes abortion seem safer that it is. Fourth, and most egregious, the number of maternal deaths used to calculate the “Maternal Mortality Rate,” and thus the safety of preg nancy in comparison with that of abortion, includes abortion-related deaths. It does not take statistical training to know that if you include abortion deaths in total pregnancy deaths, total pregnancy deaths will appear to exceed in number total abortion deaths. Yet this obvious error has apparently no.t been “no ticed” until now. When these errors are corrected, and the best available estimates of the adjusted maternal mortality rate for the first twenty weeks of preg nancy are compared with the maternal mortality rate for abortions per formed during the same period, the death to case ratio for such abor tions exceeds that for pregnancy. If the same comparison is made for the second twenty weeks of pregnancy, pregnancy again comes out as safer than abortion. (Reprinted from: Bulletin of the NFP Council) CROSS Supplement PRO-UFEC WHEN SOMEONE’S LIFE IS IN DANGER YOUR LIFE IS THREATENED TOO. SUPPORT THE PRO-LIFE MOVEMENT PRO-LIFE Arzobispo de Manila, 1000 Gen. Solano St., San Miguel, Manila. Psychiatry (Cont.from P-L A) and his promise of eternal life. are happily better able to ensure him .. Thus, the mentally sick person, human progress. Nor should it be remaining an underprivileged man forgotten — and it is often a comfort and brother, has a special right to and a help for you yourselves — that attention, love, dedication and the these sick people still have gifts and use of the professional abilities of above all qualities of heart which they those who can help ‘him and who,. in turn are able to offer those around thanks to the progress bf sciences 'them.” REAL PITY [Cont.from P-L A) motherhood. Everything that is done in this order of love, pity and saving of the life of even one of the least and perhaps unhappiest of our brothers or out sisters in .‘humanity’. Christ, let us remem ber, will count it as done io Him self!” PRO-LIFE D CROSS Supplement DAUGHTERS OF MARY IMMACULATE DMI TACKLES FOUR IMPORTANT THRUSTS The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines has challenged the Daughters of Mary Immaculate to work on four important thrusts: Pro-Life, Morality in Media, Upliftment of Women Workers, and Assis tance to Prisoners' Families and their Victims. The DMI readily accepted the challenge and has since made all resources available for the achieve ment of the task. Seminars and conferences have been conducted by the various Cir cles in Metro Manila and in the CAMPAIGN FOR DEVELOPMENT THROUGH THE MASS MEDIA gyZENY YABUT-GAPIT Chief, DMI Morality in Media Section The Daughters of Mary Imma culate (DMI) has launched a nation wide campaign for the promotion of good and healthful media in coope ration with the help of different reli gious and civic organizations all over the Philippines to develop the right attitude towards improving the moral values .of man and his environment through Mass Media.,- . A detailed plan of action has been circulated to all participating organi zations, and a concerted effort action nationwide is necessary for success in checking the negative effects of the printed word, television, radio, movie and advertisement. Some producers have been furnished copies of the DMI plans of action in order to guide them in their productions. Presidents of civic groups in villages and sub divisions, including homeowners’ associations, have been given copies of the DMI programs of action. Imme diate action has been taken by some officers and members of the different forms of media and of various civic groups, such as organizing sports fests . during summer vacations,' holding “novenas” and prayer ser vices like the "Block Rosary,” tea provinces, with knowledgeable and _ authoritative personalities invited as guest speakers and lecturers. In July this year, a two-day seminar was sponsored by the national committee on Pro-Life led by Sister Rose Padre of Our Lady of Reme dies Circle, Malate. During the seminar, various Circles reported on their Pro-Life activities. Many of them have conducted mini-seminars among married couples, engaged persons, and. students. These various groups were all warned on the perils of It cannot be denied that media have greatly influenced our present generation. Let us be constantly vigilant and aware of the different forms of media in order to combat immoralities in the.media itself. Let us not keep silent about these. We should remember that our loved ones are the first to be affected by immoral shows right in the confines of our homes. It is about time that we take notice and participate in this campaign against lewd shows. Let us not leave the solutions to these pro blems to organized groups alone. Each and everyone of us is a part of this campaign. We feel sure- that all will be glad to do their share in upholding our Filipino values and our laws of government. No less than tne President of our country, His Excellency Ferdinand E. Marcos, has told more than 100 advertising representatives from the different countries around the world, particularly those from the Asso ciation of Southeast Asian Nations, that ne is not going to tolerate exploit ation of sex in advertising nor will he allow violence to be spotlighted either in the advertisements. Such dete rioration in advertising should be the concern more of the publishers, not of the advertisers themselves.. This is an invitation to all. Please, [Please turn to page 26} abortion. Married couples were instructed on natural family planning and on the technical aspects of human / reproduction. The national committee on Mora lity Media has conducted seminars on this particular thrust. Some Circles have been very active in monitoring all forms of media. Having noticed the lewd advertisements that used to be featured prominently in our news papers, various Circles have bom barded publishers and advertisers with letters vigorously protesting such indecorous display of sexuality. It will be noted that newspaper advertise ments have toned down a lot, as a result of the Circles’ letters. On the thrust, Upliftment of Women Workers, the DMI has some individual members who work quietly and without fanfare. To mention only one, there is Sister Connie Arriola of the Holy Rosary Circle, Manila, who does not hesitate to enter the bars and restaurants in the Ermita-Malate tourist belt to inter view women workers, find out their problems, and whenever possible, help them out. Many Circles try to interest women workers in learning legitimate skills, as an alternative to prosti tution. The thrust, Assistance to Pri soners’ Families and their Victims, is being implemented by the different Circles by avoiding spiritual guidance and counselling to prisoners* families as well as the prisoners* victims. Help is also extended to these families by providing them with medicine, clo thing, and in some meritorious cases, financial assistance. The Daughters of Mary Imma culate may not have achieved much, but we are dQing everything we can within oue resources and capabilities. —EVENCLAC. FAROL Editor, DMI Newsette November-December, 1982 Page 17 KC Profile BRO. ANTONIO 0. SALAZAR Aut. Philippine Deputy for Vtaayee People who know Bro. Antonio 0. Salazar, the Asst. Philippine Deputy for Vlsayas, are conclusive that he Is a man who can be on either side of a coin. On one side, he is a Jolly go-getter; on the other, he Is regarded as an exacting man, always ready with an acknow ledging nod to those who can deliver the goods (sincere and honests service) and on guard to those who tarry most of the time but whom he considers yet as subjects of his persuasion. A lawyer by profession and busi nessman by avocation, Bro. Salazar is a professional-career man endowed with a selfless attitude in the exercise of his capabilities. Judging from what his colleagues say of him he is a man dedicated to service and fair play be it in the practice of his profession, in'running his business concern, or in dealing with co-workers, and the general public organizations where he belongs. Bro. Salazar is from Lopez, Quezon province, where he was born on October 31, 1932, to Maria Olea Salazar of this town and Ignacio M. Salazar, a lawyer from Jaro, Iloilo City. He grew up, however, in Jaro, where the family permanently resided and where his late father practiced his profession. He finished his elementary edu cation at the Jaro Elementary School and his secondary education at the Ateneo de Cagayan (1946-47) and University of Iloilo (1948-49) Then he came to Manila and enrolled at the Ateneo de Manila, where he obtained an Associate in Arts degree in 1952. Prodded perhaps by his father who was then at the height of his career as a law practitioner, or desi rous maybe of making practical use of his father’s law books, young Salazar took up law at the Ateneo jde Manila and finished the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1956. He passed the bar the following year. Presently, he is a member of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines, Iloilo Chapter. As a Knight of Columbus, Bro. Salazar is an ardent follower of the tenets of this apostolic organization, so much so that he is known for his staunch advocacy of unity, fraternity, charity and patriotism for which the K of C stands. Soon after he served his term as Grand Knight of Ave Maria Council No. 5019 , he was appointed District Deputy of KC District NO. 102 based in Boilo City from 1969 to 1971. At the same time, he was provincial coordinator of the K of C in Iloilo province. During his stint as District Deputy, he also served as Knight hood Coordinator, Archdiocese of Jaro, Iloilo City. In 1972, he was accorded the title pf Knight of St. Sylvester, a Papal Award. In 1973, Bro. Salazar was selected one of the three Most Out standing Knights of Columbus in the Philippines by a committee headed by the then Philippine Deputy, the late Rev. George J. Willmann. He was also selected Most Outstanding CcneaQuick Count Provincial Chairman in 1971. In a brief telephone conversation, with him before deadline, Bro. Salazar also said he was past President of the SERRA Club in Iloilo, an organization of Catholic gentlemen, designed to promote the priestly vocation. As president of the Club, he advocated that assistance to seminarians should not be dispensed to individual reci pients but should be submitted to. a particular seminary as a seminarian burse. In this case, he explained, the seminary, which actually knows, who among the seminarians truly needs financial assistance, and who deserve a continuing scholarship, will wisely disburse the funds. Bro. Salazar said that the club is gaining nationwide support as regional chap ters have already been organized and are functioning under the guide lines set by the mother SERRA Club in Iloilo City. The promotion of priestly voca tions should gain more adherence among our countrymen because of the dearth of Catholic spiritual leaders or priests in the country today, he said. He lauded the current Fr. George J. Willmann Seminarian fund cam paign which, he said, has gone a long way in helping poor and deserving seminarians. In 1979, Bro. Salazar was ap pointed Assistant Philippine Deputy for Visayas, as successor to the late Bro. Antonio Giron,.-who died during his incumbency as Assistant Philip pine Deputy in the region. Since the time he assumed this exalted position, he has kept himself mobile, visiting District Deputies’ offices and the various KC councils in the Visayas, exhorting his brothers in the frater nity to exert more effort in their apostolate to the service of God and of their fellowmen. Bro. Salazar is past president of the Printers Association of Iloilo (1979-80), a position he held with competence and imagination because Page 18 CROSS CLOSING CEREMONIES OF CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION: INVESTITURE OF NEW MASTER OF THE 4th DEGREE With His Eminence Jaime Car dinal L. Sin, Archbishop of Manila officiating. The Knights of Columbus in the Philippines held the concclebration of the Holy Mass to mark the closing of the KC Centennial at the Minor Basilica of the Immaculate Conception (Manila Cathedral), Intramuros, Manila, starting at 6:00 P.M., on Tuesday, October 12 (Columbus Day). 1982. The ceremonies which were capped by a Eucharistic celebration, started with the processional of the prelates, from the main entrance of the basilica, escorted by a 30-men strong PBA Color Corps in full regalia. The prelates were His Eminence Jaime Cardinal L. Sin, Archbishop of Manila; Rt. Rev. Msgr. Marcelino Monte mayor, Parish Priest of Our Lady of Loreto Parish; Rt. Rev Msgr. Alfredo Rodriguez, Parish Priest of St. John the Baptist Parish in Pinaglabanan, San Juan, Rizal; Rt. Rev. Msgr. Augusto A. Pedrosa, Rector of the Manila Cathedral: Rt. Rev. Msgr. FranciscoG. Tantoco, Jr., KC National Secretary; and Very Rev. George Ignacio, Private-Secretary to the Archbishop of Manila. The Color Corps was under SK Wenceslao M. Arellano, Color Corps Commander, and SK Col. Eufrosino 0. Pili, Mar shall of the Fourth Degrees The concelebrated Mass was specially prepared by the KC National SK QU1RICO P. EVANGELISTA Office. Those who assisted were the following Very Rev. Ignacio as master of ceremonies; Msgr. Pedrosa, gospel reader; DD Regino B. Jante, commentator; SK Artemio L. Coronel, epistle reader; Loreto Male Choir conducted by Prof. Fely MolinaDumlao; Philippine Deputy Oscar Ledesma and MFD Carlos E. Santiago, offerers; DMI (Metro Manila), col lectors; and Sis. Lulu Farol, organist. The solemn investiture and offi cial installation of SK Quirico P. Evangelista as the 5th Master of the Fourth Degree was interspersed in the Mass, immediately after Cardinal Sin had delivered his homily. As the inducting official, Cardinal Sin charged SK Evangelista his duties and responsibilities as the new Master and swore him into his high position in the O der. The investiture immediately followed with the service baldric placed upon him by FN Gabriel V. Manansala; the ceremonial sword by SK Col. Pedro L. Los Banos; the regal robe by PFN Dr. Roberto G. Canta; and the chapeaux by FN Pastor C. Bacani. Outgoing Master Carlos E. Santiago climaxed the investiture by transferring the Master’s Jewel from himself to SK Evangelista. This final act was spontaneously fol lowed with applause from the cong regation consisting of Faithful Navi gators in full regalia, other Fourth Degree members in official prescribed uniform, ladies of the Knights in formal evening dress and relatives and friends of the KC’s from Metro Manila. After the Mass, cocktails fol lowed at the Manila KC 1000 Building beside the Cathedral. SK Captain Evangelista hails from Orion, Bataan. He has served as Grand Knight of Our Lady of Loreto Council No. 4288 in Sampaloc, Manila; District Deputy in Bataan; and Faithful Navigator of the Padre Burgos Assembly, also in Intramuros, Manila. In the K of C Cabinet, he has served as national director of council activities and as national director of community activities. At present, he is the national co-chairman of the program committee. of his wealth of experience as a printer and bookshop entrepreneur. Being aware of the tremendous in fluence of the print media upon the life of the citizenry,, he is an avid advocate of the propagation of edu cational books and wholesome enter tainment publications, especially those that are to be read by the youths. Presently, Bro. Salazar is a member of the KC Cabinet, being the Chairman for Public Relations (In ternal). He is now working for the con tinuance of the Centennial Dateline, a newsletter started by the KC na tional headquarters early this year to boost the preparations for the Cen-. tennial celebrations. If continued, it will serve as additional info material for KC affairs and activities to boost the present KC publications, he said. Bro. Salazar is married to the former Gloria J. Jimenez of La Cariota City, Negros Occidental. They are blessed with two children, namely: Ma. Cristina S. Borromeo, age 26 and Vincent Francis J. Salazar, age 15. □ November-December, 1982 BSdeC Page 19 MORE PLEASANT BARANGAY HEADQUARTERS DESIRED Almost everywhere in the city of Manila, “Barangay Head quarters” abound — an indication of the active state of Barangay councils. But the Irony of it is that while the Barangay councils have spent a lot of money and effort in setting up the makeshift struc tures they christened Barangay Headquarters, most of them appa rently were a splurge of the council men’s ostentation — they were left behind soon after their con struction because they cannot be used comfortably as centers of operation. Such ostentation surfaced as the makeshift structures, though attract ive, are not properly situated and are even too small a place for the con duct of Barangay affairs. In view of these, they are veritably useless. Though these makeshift struc tures were built with sturdy mate rials like wood and concrete, they were all the while left vacant and idle because the Barangay councils appa rently could not find a way yet to make good use of them. These so-called Barangay Head quarters were constructed out of the barangay allotments for meritorious projects given by the Ministry of Local Governments and Community Deve lopment, and they were conceived as sites for Barangay council meetings and as control centers for Barangay affairs. Usefulness, coqjeetural Why several of these marked structures were set upon street corners, against concrete walls along side small streets, and even on an island on a busy thoroughfare is a minor mystery. Their usefulness is a matter for conjecture. Take the case of the narrow Sandejas street in Pasay City where a tiny 2-ft. by 8-ft. makeshift enclosure complete with wooden bars has been built against a concrete wall fence. Except for the fact that it is marked Himpilan ng Barangay (Barangay Headquarters), with the names of the Barangay officials listed on it, it looks more like a detention cell than an office. There’s nothing inside it that suggests it is being used as headquarters In Sta. Ana, a former waiting shed which used to serve the public for years, was converted by the Barangay Council into “headquarters.” a 2-ft. high concrete enclosure was built on the perimeter of the shed and wooden planks were set up a bit apart and perpendicularly up to the roof to serve as improvised wall. But this former waiting shed has remained closed for sometime now and thick dust has accumulated on the pair of office tables inside it. An informant, however, told this writer that recently an Aglipayan priest administered the sacrament of confirmation to young children here. Obviously, it is not being used by the Barangay The Barangay Headquarters of Bgy. 792, Zone 86 on Pedro Gil street cor. Pasig Line. Council in the furtherance of its work for the community. Some residents of the area would want to know if a barangay council is free to alter an already existing public utility structure within its jurisdiction. “If the Barangay Council officials can’t find any continuing use of it, why don't they restore the structure to its 'original form as waiting shed so it could again be used by the riding public especially during the rainy season or during* hot summer?” asked one commuter. Not a solution ■ A grocery store-owner nearby explained that the Barangay Council closed the shed and marked it “Ba rangay Headquarters" when some neighborhood residents complained of the noise caused by some homo sexuals who allegedly overstayed during nighttime at the shed. “But closing the shed is not a solution to this,” retorted-a concerned citizen. "The matter should have been re ported to the police precinct which is just a walking distance from the shed,” he said. But what appears to be the most interesting but apparently unwise projection of Barangay leadership is the construction of makeshift structures in V-shaped street conners and caljing them “Barangay Head quarters.” By all indications, these “mini” structures are nothing but Page 20 CROSS fronts to show that the barangay council in the particular zone is indeed “active.” Model structure A trueto-name Barangay Head quarters (of Barangay 792, Zone No. 86) which can serve as a model can, however, be found on the acute angle Corner of Pedro Gil street and Pasig Line, Sta. Ana. The cute little wooden kiosk nestled among ornamental plants and shaded by a mango tree is an eye-catcher — commuters never fail to have a good look at it. On its side along Pedro Gil street stands a statue of the Blessed Virgin which gives the kiosk even a solemn look. Inside this Barangay Headquarters is an office table, two blackboards, and some chairs which show that Barangay operations are discussed here. It is here where Bgy. Chairman Jorge T. Nani De Guzman holds Barangay council meetings and the sessions of the Barangay Conciliation Court of which he is the presiding officer. Cecilio Claudio, caretaker of this Bgy. Headquarters said the Head quarters is the nerve center of Ba rangay council operations. It is open throughout the day and until late at night, he said. Barangay outpost A noble suggestion on how to make those idle “Barangay Head quarters" useful to the community came from a retired school teacher in Sta. Ana, who did not wish to be identified. "The out-of-place and now idle "Barangay Headquarters" should be marked “Barangay Outpost" to erase a misnomer to these kinds of struc tures. They can virtually be cozy outposts where barangay tanods can go to for a bit of rest or snack in the course of patrolling the neighborhood in the nighttime. The ideal place for a Barangay Headquarters is the resi dence of the Chairman himself, if there's no available and suitable place where a more spacious Barangay Headquarters can be built. ” Possiqly problems of space has dictated the construction of stuffy and midget “headquarters" for Barangay Councils on the unlikeliest 1982 DELEGATES TO SUPREME COUNCIL CONVENTION R.G.Canta C. Ledesma J.C. Cabahug Shown above are the Philippine delegates to this year’s annual Supreme Council convention held August 3-6, 1982 in Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.A. Left to right: Bro. Roberto G. Canta, National Director of Council Activities, Member; Bro. Oscar Ledesma, Philippine Deputy, Chairman; and Bro. Jovencio C. Cabahug, District Deputy, Member. places in Metro Manila. This has been a hasty decision. In many towns and cities of the country, Barangay Head quarters are made of bamboo, wood and nipa and look pleasant and attractive cottages. 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DE CASTRO November-December, 1982 Page 21 BUNDLES OF HAY Milio robbed bls shrinking fingers as he added a few more wood charcoal to the glowing embers in the small stove his mother was using to bake blblngka. He felt a little warm from the thick cotton shirt he wore over the rough cotton undershirt that his mother had sewn for him. But his exposed hands trembled from the onslaught of the December dawn air that seemed to intensify beside the hoary moss-carpeted church. Still the bibingka’s fragrance helped him ignore the cold that seemed to spring from the empty spaces between the acacia trees. Ina Insiang, Milio’s mother, now and then crossly reminded Milio to stay a little farther from the stove so that she would be unimpeded in removing the hot bibingka from th^ earthen pan, then placing in it a fresh round-shaped banana leaf and pouring into the pan the water-soaked finely ground rice made tasty with molasses and shredded coconut meat. Milio liked to watch with fas cination her mother’s movements. Several children of the church goers crowded near the displayed bibingka and offered shining coins for the privilege of having a hot loaf. Milio was of little help to his mother in selling the cakes because even if he was already nine years old and knew a little arithmetic, he was not familiar with the coins. And his mother forbade him from handing out the loaves because at one time she caught him stealthily giving two loaves to his friend Asias for the price of one. He deserved the cuff that his mother administered after his friend had left. But he did not agree with his mother's condition that if he gave two loaves he would have none any more for himself. “Your uncle Sergio will be here with your cousin Insiong very soon to get you help them bring the rice hay from the field to the church,” Milio heard his mother say as he fed a few more charcoal to the stove. “What is the hay for, Mother?” Milio asked wonderingly. “Apo Padi will once again put up the belen in church,” his mother explained. “Jesus was born in a stable, where there was hay for cattle.” Milio had never seen a belen in church. On the rare occasions on Christmas that his mother brought him to church, he never had oppor tunity to see any belen anywhere within the church. He remembered he would be near the huge doorway, he never caught sight of any belen. Neither his mother>nor he had ven tured to go near the altar where the richly clad devotees were. He would have been ashamed to go where the well dressed people congregated. He knew he would be frightened to do so. It was sunrise when his uncle Sergio and his cousin Insiong dropped by. His mother greeted them with a toothy grin and two bibingkas each. Milio had eaten, one loaf, and he saw no reason why his cousin his age should deserve two loaves, so’ he sur reptitiously pocketed a loaf. After all his mother did not diligently count the stacks of loaves nor did she remember how many were so.ld and how many unsold as yet. As long as she could make a profit of more than five pesos each morning, she would be immensely happy and even give Milio an extra loaf. “Be sure to hear mass every time you can, kabagis,” his uncle Sergio said to his mother. “I have not seen you lately.” "I have been busy. Sergio." his mother said lamely. Milio admired his uncle Sergio for the kind of work he did: the man helped attend to several chores that the priest wanted to be done, inclu ding serving as bellringer. Once in a while his uncle Sergio brought him and his cousin Insiong up the belfry, which stood as a separate tower of massive proportions. Milio marvelled at the three bells, the huge one hanging at the center being like a big iron cauld ron like the one a rich family in town owned. Milio remembered having seen the big cauldron when his motherPage22 CROSS washed the dishes in a party given by the rich family one Christmas. Milio trudged beside his cousin Insiong as the three went to the field where freshly mown rice hay lay in stacks. Milio’s father, who owned one of the stacks, had permitted his brother-in-law Sergio to get some hay for the Christmas belen in church, Milio learned from his uncle. The smell of freshly mown hay quickened Milio’s heartbeats. Milio’s uncle chose some good hay and tied three bundles of them, the two much smaller ones to be carried by the two children. Milio did not need to be told to lay his buri hat between the side of his head and the hay so that his cheeks would not be scratched by the grass blades. After all many a time he had helped his father carry hay to their cart to be brought home as cowfeed. But before they left for the church, the three ate the second bibingka loaf each had pocketed. Father and son had already relished the first loaf at the bibingka stand, and Milio very much earlier had enjoyed his when it had been so hot he had almost dropped it. Milio and his cousin at first had no difficulty carrying their respective bundles. But Milio noticed that his uncle Sergio seemed to be hunched beneath his load. His uncle really was not used to heavy work, unlike his father, who once boasted he could throw down an ox. Several times on the way to church the three had to pause and wipe their perspiration, and Milio’s uncle had to take several deep breaths in order to gel back his wind. The three were a little over half way when Milio himself felt fatigued. He had not been really used to carry ings load like this, as his father always had a dependable cart or sled even. And his cousin Insiong showed signs of rebelliousness. The two children soon refused to move an inch, and it was all Sergio could do to urge them to go on by giving them a nickel each. "I thought this bundle was very light when we started,’’ Milio told his cousin. “And it becomes heavier,” Insiong rejoined. “Why did you not ask father to deliver the hay to the church, uncle?” Milio asked his uncle Sergio. “I did, but your father said he would have to help mill sugar cane for making molasses with,” his uncle Sergio replied, breathing hard. “I know how to help us'bring the hay faster to the church, father,” Insiong said, grinning, as they passed There is no rich nor poor in church, no requirement about having to be beauti fully dressed to go near the altar and the belen. You need only to be dressed decently. by a small sari-sari store. "We can refresh ourselves with that sweet softdrink.” “Children, that is expensive!” Sergio exclaimed. “Then the hay will not go farther, uncle,” Milio joined his cousin in the stratagem. “You have hardly stopped suck ing milk, you are so young, and you already know a few tricks!” Sergio scratched his Mead but he agreed with great reluctance. “Insiong, watch your father drink that bottleful fast. He is thirstier than we are,” Milio whispered to his cousin. The two boys laughed. “What arc you giggling at?” Sergio asked the two. "We are betting who will finish first, uncle,” Milio said. “He who finishes last will carry the other’s load too.” “You are so young, you are full of tricks, you two,” Sergio again scratched his head. The three were finally able to bring the hay into the church, when the sun was quite high and the last mass was long over. Milio was reluctant to bring his bundle of hay toward the altar. In his shabby clothes, he felt embar rassed having to proceed to where the benches close to the altar were. He thought that sp#ce was reserved only for the rich, and he explained this to his uncle. "Do not be silly, Milio,” Sergio assured the boy. “There is no rich nor poor in church, no requirement about having to be beautifully dressed to go up to that part. You need only to be dressed decently.” Milio marvelled at the life-size replicas of the Holy Family, the wor shipping shepherds, the cows even. The hay they brought in would give the belen a touch of reality. Milio felt he was in a different world when he found himself close to the altar. He looked up, and saw how high the ceiling was, as if it were heaven he was looking at. A feeling of being overwhelmed coursed through him. For this was indeed the first time he noticed the things around him in this old church. He remem bered that from the back part of the church, he had hardly been able to understand what had been intoned or spoken, in those few times when his mother had brought him to church. Milio helped in spreading the rice hay on the church floor to simu late the stable where the infant Jesus had been born, as his Uncle Sergio explained. Every now a,nd then he watched his uncle walk a few paces away from the belen to look at it, then he would instruct them to place more hay here, and less there. Milio and his cousin obediently did what was told them. Milio felt, strangely, that even if he worked hard, his fatigue vanished. For several times he looked at the replica of the infant Jesus, and the Infant seemed to smile at him. □ —BENJAMIN M. PASCUAL Page 23 November-December, 1982 . KNIGHTS IN ACTION S“XSE“roat KCs OBSERVE FR. In commemoration of the 5th death anniversary of Rev. George J. Willmann, S.J., Philippine Deputy of the Knights of Columbus in the Philippines from 1947 to 1977, a commemmorative Mass was held at the Minor Basilica of the Imma culate Conception (Manila Cathed ral) at 5:30 P.M., Tuesday, September 14, 1982. It may be recalled that Father Willmann died in New York City, U.S.A., on September 14, 1977 at Fordham University Hospital where he was hospitalized. Just before his death, the good priest attended the 95th annual Supreme Council con vention held on August 15-18, 1977 in Indianapolis, Indiana. As one of the important events of the Centennial Convention held from June, 1981 to October, 1982, the national office of the Knights of Columbus in the Philippines commemmorated the 4th death anniversary of Fr. Willmann at the Sacred Heart Novitiate grounds in Novaliches, Quezon City, last year, at which Philippine Deputy Oscar Le desma announced that from then on. . WILLMANN'S DAY September 14, the death anniver sary of Fr. Willmann, would be known as Father Willmann Day and should be observed annually by all KC councils all over the Philippines. The commemmorative Mass ce lebrated on September 14, 1982 had the Right Reverend Monsignor Fran cisco G. Tantoco, Jr., KC National Secretary, as the celebrant, with Bro. Reuben Angela as server and Bro. Col. Pedro L. Los Banos as epistle reader. Attended by a good number of Knights from various councils of. Metro Manila, th$ knights were led by Bro. Oscar Ledesma, Philippine Deputy; KC Cabinet Members Quirico P. Evangelista, Cornelio B- Cagurangan, Jerome J. Cruz, Alberto R. Tanghal, Isagani V. Tolentino, Pedro L. Losbanos and Alfonso B. Javier as well as KCRP staff, KCFAPI staff, and a number of relatives and friends of the Order. At the end of the Mass, there was the veneration of the relic of the true Cross of Christ. FGT ST. THOMAS AQUINAS COUN CIL NO. 7884, UST, Espana, Manila— This Council, the first College KC' Council organized in the Philippines, held its first foundation anniversary on September 26, 1982 at the Italian Village. Former Ambassador Oscar Le desma, Philippine Deputy, was the guest speaker. The foundation rites included distribution of prizes and awards to the winners of the recently concluded sportsfest of the Council and the Knight of the Year. Present during the program aside from the Philippine Deputy and others, were Msgr. Francisco G. Tan toco, Jr., KC national secretary; SK Numeriano Litiatco, District Deputy; Fr. Jose Ma. B. Tinoko, OP, Vice Rector of UST and Council Chaplain; and SK Hector Aguiling, Assistant Dean of the College of Commerce, UST, and Faculty adviser. In his speech, the Philippine Deputy underscored the role of the youth, specially the Christian youth, in spiritual and moral development as well as in nation.building. REMINDER All photos submitted to the CROSS for possible publication should be sharp, and In black & white. Color shots are' not acceptable. — ED. District officers meeting At the rostrum is former District Deputy SK Beato A. Tutor, deli vering an address to the delegates of the District Officers Meeting held in Garcia Hernandez. Bohol, last August 29. 1982. Seated are the different resource persons who spoke on membership, advance ment. recruitment, retention drive, the national food production cam paign and the vermi-culture pro gram. Page 24 CROSS CARDINAL SIN LEADS RITES FOR HOUSING PROJECT His Eminence Jaime L. Cardinal Sin, Archbishop of Manila, and His Excellency Most Rev. Bruno Torpigliani. Apostolic Nuncio to the' Philip pines, officiated at the ground breaking ceremonies for a socialized housing project for squatters in Barrio Cupang, Antipolo, Rizal last Sep tember 30, 1982. The housing project — Project No. 1 of the Kaunlaran Center — sit uated near the Sumulong Highway will benefit the depressed families of San Andres Bukid belonging to the Christian Community Network of the Kaunlaran Multi-Purpose Center. KCs LAUNCH “OPERATION PANANGARO” ST. THADDEUS KC COUNCIL NO. 6428, Pozorrubio, Pangasinan. — The members of this Council recently launched “Operation Panangaro”, a free medical and dental clinic for all the thirty-four barangays of this town. Scores of patients from indigent families were promptly attended to by the Council’s medical team in the The project will involve the cons truction of 110 housing units and of infrastructure such as roads and drainage system. The socialized housing scheme is a project of the Cardinal and the Kaunlaran Multi-Purpose Center run by the Good Shepherd nuns. Among those invited by Car dinal Sin to the ground-breaking rites were the national officers of the Knights of Columbus in the Philip pines and the members of the K of C Cabinet, among other religious and civic leaders in Metro Manila. course of their barangay to barangay sorties. Other projects of this Council include a fund raising drive being launched in November intended for the construction of a KC clubhouse; the formation of a Columbian Squires Circle held last October with more than twenty members headed by CYO LEADERSHIP SEMINAR A leadership training seminar for Luzon Units has been slated to be held from November 27 to 29, 1982 at the Mary heights Formation House, Baguio City. Bro. Berlin P. Manaloto, CYO national president, said the national office is inviting the Luzon Units to send a maximum of four (4) delegates who may be officers and/or members. The maximum number of participants to this seminar is sixty (60) only and, therefore, reservations will be on a first-come first served basis, he said. The seminar will be subsidized by the National Office and the Comr munity Chest Foundation. However, participants are requested to pay a registration fee of P100.00 each for two days board and lodging expenses, and to shoulder their own transpoi tation expenses. This requirement also applies to Unit Advisers who will accompany their respective Unit delegates. Jojo Desamito; and the sponsorship of a youth athletic team which parti cipated in the municipal meet he'd last October. The projects are assisted by Bro. Heriberto A. Bautista, over all chairman of KC activities. Training the young These proud young boys of Paete. Laguna pose with their benefactors, the members of th'e Lanzones Council No. 6953, who made arrangements for the boys to learn how to read musical notes and play musical intruments. Shown above (standing) with the boys are (I to r): Bros. Rodolfo C. Dono, Lope D. Galaboc, Leonardo C. Ragasa; SK Onofre Religioso, District Deputy, KC Dist. No. 59; SK Rodrigo B. Cugandahan, Deputy Grand Knig t and Bros. Delfin M. Baet, J. i C. Pascual, and Gabriel A. Serrano. Holding the KC Flag ai SK Pablito A. Ragub, Grand Kn ht and Bro. Faustino B. Arurong Page 25 HOLY TRINITY MEMORIAL CHAPELS INAUGURATED Paranaque Mayor Florencio V. Bernabe and Mrs. Juanita Ledesma, wife of Hon. Oscar Ledesma, Philip pine Deputy, were the principal sponsors in the inauguration on October 10, 1982, of the multi-million peso Holy Trinity Memorial Chapels, envisioned to be the most modern memorial facilities south of Makati, Metro Manila. Right Reverend Msgr. Francisco G. Tantoco Jr., KC National Secre tary, officiated the blessing of the newly-constructed building. Located along Dr. A Santos Avenue (formerly Sucat Road) in Paranaque, HTMC is an inter-faith memorial chapel catering to the needs of all residents of Paranaque and those in nearby communities. Bro. Mardonio R. Santos, HTMC board chairman, explained that in answer to the needs of the fast growing communities in Paranaque and neighboring towns, HTMC took upon itself the task of providing a modern sanctuary where the bereaved can entrust their dead and hold vigil in the most solemn atmosphere. “It is basic in any community that all of its residents will want to see their every basic need fulfilled or provided.One such service and faci lity that has similarly become a basic need, particularly among the more progressive self-contained commu nities, is a mortuary and memorial chapel for the dead,” Bro. Santos said. “However, HMTC is not just any mortuary or memorial chapel,” Bro. Santos adds. “HMTC allows for the most reverential, if temporary, sanc tuary befitting the dead, in addition to offering sanitary and pollution- . free service.” With these twofold consider ations — the hygienic disposition of the dead and respect for the de parted — the HTMC was established .in a convenient location right in the high intensity district to make its services easily accessible to the com munities it seeks to serve, Bro. Santos stressed. Situated on a more than 4,000 sq. m. lot, HTMC houses seven cha pels. Complete with ample parking space to accommodate about 70 cars, HTMC’s landscape features a scenic garden with fountains, trees, shrubs, flowers and plants to create an atmosphere conducive to medi tation, vigil and prayer. “Utilizing the latest technolo gical advances and conforming with existing laws. HTMC offers mor tuary and I n neral services in the most scientific and sanitary manner through the adoption of proper health and sani tation safeguards, and the use of modern facil ies, equipment and scientific expertise,” Bro. Santos empasized. "Above all, respect for the dead is of prime consideration,” the HTMC board chairman stressed. Who are the people behind HTMC? The new inter-faith memorial/chapel is run by management expertise who were trained in the latest advances of mortuary science both here and abroad. The members of the board of directors of HTMC are Mardonio R. Santos, chairman: Ruben Ilagan, vice-chairman; Juan O Reyes, President; kagani V. Tolentino, trea surer; R. Ruel I. Baylosis, general manager; Juvenal K. Guerrero, member; Emilio Nery, member; Evangeline Escobillo, vice-president for finance; and Leonardo Baga, corporate secretary. At the cocktail part) held on the occasion of the blessing and inau guration of its chapels at HTMC Bldg., from 5:00 to 9:00 in the evening, the following KC national officers were present: Philippine Deputy & Mrs. Oscar Ledesma; Assistant National Chaplain & National Secre tary Msgr. Francisco G. Tantoco Jr.; Assistant Philippine Deputy for Church repair Shown above are officers of Talisay Council No. 6036 as they assisted laborers doing repair job on the roof of the Talisay Catholic Church built in 1936. This project was undertaken through the joint efforts of the Talisay Catholic Women's League, Mrs. Lourdes L. Yusay. and the KCs. With the laborers are Grand Knight Rogaciano D. Villanueva. Deputy Grand Knight Rev. Jesus Perez Redo, OAR. and Recorder Tobias G. Rios. CAMPAIGN FOR DEVELOPMENT (Continued from p. 17) let us join in this campaign. Copies of the DMI plans of action for guide lines in monitoring all kinds of media, are available at the National Office of the Daughters of Mary'* Imma culate, P.O. Box 510, or at General Antonio Luna Street, Intramuros, Manila. Luzon Mr. & Mrs. Mardonio R. Santos; National Co-Chairman of Communiy Activities Dr. Raymundo C. Soliman; National Director of Council Activities Dr. Roberto G. Canta; National Co-Chairman of Public Relations & Mrs. Miguel B. Gatchalian; National Retention Chairman Alfredo T. Traballo; National Insu rance Chairman & Mrs. kagani V. Tolentino; National Co-Chairman* of Insurance & Mrs. Antonio R. Sanglay; and National Christian For mation Chairman Carlo Magno. Page 26 NEW DISTRICT DEPUTY APPOINTMENTS In view of the leave of absence of District Deputies Jovito M. Estaris, Sr. of District No. 24, Rizalino P. Lacuna of Distrcit No. 53, and Benjamin F. Medina of District No. 75, in connection with their recent business trips abroad, the Office of the Philippine Deputy has named the following as Acting District Deputies effective immediately and until their respective Bistrict Deputies are back in the country: Rev. ISABELO SAN LUIS, S.V.D. of Divine Word College, Urdaneta, Pangasinan. He will supervise District No. 24, composed of Council No. 5912, Urda neta, Pangasinan; and No. 6428, Pozorrubio, Panga sinan. EDUARDO T. DEVEZA of 56 East Maya St., Philamlife Homes, Quezon City. He will supervise District No. 53 composed of Council No. 6829, Novaliches, Quezon City; No. 7178, Fairview, Quezon City; and No. 7668, B.F. Homes, Quezon City. ROBERTO M. BANICO of 232 M. Gregorio St., Cavite City. He will supervise District No. 75, com posed of Council No. 4072, Cavite City; No. 4265, Cavite City; No. 6821, Caridad, Cavite City; and No. 7686, San Antonio, Cavite City. Likewise, JORGE STA. MARIA of 92 Washington St., Merville Park, Paranaque, Metro Manila has been appointed as new District Deputy for District No. 73, composed of Council No. 6238, BF Homes, Las Pinas, Metro Manila; No. 6843, SAV, Paranaque, Metro Manila; No. 7147, BF Homes, Paranaque, Metro Manila; and No. 7618, Moonwalk Village, Las Pinas, Metro Manila. He succeeded Bro. Enrique H. Manuel who tendered his resignation. caHDILYMKfflW MEMORIAL CHAPELS The best memorial facilities south of Makati Along Dr. A. Santos Avenue (Sucat Road) Paranaque, Metro Manila Tel. Nos. 827-13-14; 827-12-91; 827-12-96 Owned and Operated by: COMPASS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION A subsidiary ol the KnltUita of (Columbus fraternal Association of tl]e Philippines. 3nc. Free medical clinic Members of the K of C Council No. 6141, in coor dination with the local Bible Study Group, set up a free medical clinic in Barangay Mabini. Tanauan, Batangas for the benefit of poor families in the area. Scores of patients were treated and given free medi cines. Chairman Vice-Chairman President Treasurer General Manager Member Member Vice-President for Finance Corporate Secretary Board of Directors: : Bro. Mardonio Santos : Bro. Ruben Hagan : Bro. Juan Reyes : Bro. Isagani Tolentino : Bro. R. Ruel I. Baylosis : Bro. Juvenal Guerrero : Bro. Emilio Nery : Sis. Evangeline Escobillo : Bro. Leonardo Baga November-December, 1982 Page 27 KC PHILIPPINES IDEA GAINS SUPPORT For: WALANG TALONG TULONG Subscribers From: National Secretary Re: Fr. Willmann Fund for International Priestly Studies KC Philippines’ idea of providing scholarship grants for higher ecclesiastical studies in Rome for KC Chaplains has caught the imagination and support of our Supreme Office. In fact the Supreme Office has offered the Philippine jurisdiction the privilege of assuming and underwriting the program in toto, begin ning 1983. Considering our jurisdiction’s limited finan cial resources and the rather sluggish fund build-up of WTT, we have graciously and gratefully accepted the offer. The international study grants for Philippine KC Chaplainswill be called “Fr. Michael McGivney Fund for Intematioanl Priestly Studies," — funded and administered by the Supreme Office. Because of: A. the Supreme Office’s assumption of the inter national program; B. the fact that current subscription to the WTT is only P228,450.00 — a mere shadow of the Pl .5 million target on which the project’s viabi lity is predicated; C. our desire to continue providing more modest but local grants to more chaplains, assistant Chaplains and priests for their development as men and pastors; it has been decided to modify the program to: 1. “The George Willman Fund for Priests" instead of “Fr. George Willmann Fund for International Priestly Studies". * Rationale: More generic than specific. Less. pretentious. More modest. 2. Objectives: 2.1. to provide our priests with an incentive and means to pursue their development as men and pastors; 2.2. to promote close ties between the clergy and the Order; 2.3. to reward services of our KC Chaplains • Rationale: The objectives are articulated in generic rather than specific terms to allow both priest-applicants and fund trustees sufficient discretion in determining fund application to respond to the needs of time, place and bene ficiary. 3. Funding: 3.1. Modify WTT along the following areas: 3.1.1. delete all incentives offered but the raffle, until such time as the fund’s income wjll permit; 3.1.2. amend the raffle prize to a ratio (10%) of income rather than a fixed sum. ♦ Rationale: Unless the Pl .5 million target is achieved, the package of incentives offered is too onerous a burden for the program. 3.2. Seek the outright donations for the program 3.2.1. Donors will be entitled to parti cipation in the raffle as articulated in 3.1.2. Due to a significant modification of the program, we seek your decision as to jhe disposition of your deposits. Please indicate your decision on the attached sheet. Enclosed is our report of the Fund. Hoping that you will continue to give us you. generous support for this important undertaking of our Order, we are Sincerely in our Lord, (Sgd.) MSGR. FRANCISCO G. TANTOCO. JR. National Secretary /jgb cc: District Deputies Grand Knights MSGR. TANTOCO: ( ) Please retain my deposit in the modified WTT project. ( ) Please accept attached check___________ for P_______' as an additional sub scription to the modifiefWtt project. ( ) Please convert my deposit as an outright donation to the Fr. Willmann Fund for Priests. ( ) Please accept attached check___________ for P_________ as additional donation to the fund. ( ) Please return my deposit. NAME:______________________ _ ________________ COUNCIL:________________ _ ____________________ ADDRESS: Page 28 CROSS WHO GETS THE CREDIT point: “If anyone is going to boast, let him boast about what the Lord has done and not about himself!” Mary, the mother of Jesus, is a wonderful ex ample of this. She does not hesitate to affirm her personal gifts and blessings “all generations will call me blessed” but neither does she fail to acknow ledge the source of all these gifts: “For He that is mighty has done great things to me.” (Luke 1:4849) Someone, examining the word CHRISTIAN once noticed that if we remove CHRIST from the word CHRISTI AN we have IAN, the letters of which could well describe us, con sidered apart from Christ: I Am Nothing. -REV. JOHN CHAMBERS, S.J. A PIECE , OF CLOTH dalupe is well know. A chapel was erected, later replaced by a church and still later by ever large basilicas. Thousands go there, especially among the poor Indians. Our Lady of Gua dalupe has been proclaimed the Pat roness not only of Mexico but of all the countries in the American hemi sphere. But there are questions that may be asked. Why did the Lady appear to an ignorant Indian? Why not to the hishop, or to a priest; or to a nun. or to a Spanish soldier or lay person? Why did she appear to the conquered Indians? Why not to the conquering Spaniards? Why did the Lady want a chapel erected there, where no Spaniards lived, but within walking distance of the Indian village?' And why did she appear as she did. in the guise and posture that we associate with the Immaculate Con ception? Surely the reader can figure out the answers for himself. □ —REV. MIGUEL A. BERNAD, S.J. Appropriate Technology Seminar Su[at, Eastern Samar was the site of an Appropriate Technology Seminar held on April 22-24. 1982 participated in by eight parishes of Eastern and Western Samar (Sulat, Maydolong. Homonhon. Salcedo. Borongan. Giporlos. Balangiga. and Talalora) with 44 participants attending. The main resource person was Rev. Frank Ambayon assisted by Rev. Francisco F. Ugsad, who are both ministers of the UCCP and members of the Board of the Consortium for Rural and Urban Development Organizations (CRUDO). Their office is located at 615 R. Q. Tormis, Cebu City. The products demonstrated and the seminar activities participated in by those who attended involved the following: soap making (laundry and toilet), instant ginger tea, calamansi concentrate, cough syrup, oil pro cessing. All the participants went home with samples of these products. The first day of the seminar was spent on the analysis of the social political- economic- cultural- religious structures of Philippine society so that the participants could be motiyated with the relevance of this techno logy which is so appropriate in their rural localities — a technology which is within the reach of the poor towards the building of self-reliant and human/ Christian communities. The participants were made to realize that in the nation’s economic structure where only the moneyed people have access to material re sources and technology, the poor people also can have their own tech nology out of the materials and human resources available in their localities through a process of pooling their resources together in a cooperative way. The soap, the oil, etc., and the cooperative organizations are just means to an end. The real target is man — his total development ... his conversion towards goodness towards God ... The thrcc-day seminar was climaxed with a creative liturgy celebrated with the parishioners of Sulat on a Sunday morning mass. The representatives of the different parishes offered the "fruits of their labor” to the Creator during the Offer tory. A thanksgiving prayer with background music was said after Holy Communion. "Ganyan sana ang misa (in the Waray dialect) — when we go to mass we want to experience God” ... was one of the feedbacks from a parishioner. Then the Core Group of Sulat had their own experimentation of the acquired technology after the seminar. The reflections that followed after a day of sweating out in the making of soap, lea. oil, calamansi con centrate were: what they brought into the making of these products was not only the ginger, oil, fuel sugar, etc. but much, much more, their own ini tiative, generosity, spirit of sacri fice. patience and perseverance, feelings of frustration and fear (it' took lime for the tea and soap to harden), cooperation and spirit of unity. In an apathetic culture like Sulat, the people realized that each one was pitching in to accomplish what they were supposed to do by following the formula — without anybody telling them what to do next. They were really breaking out from their estab-^ lished negative structures. This is conversion ... a change of heart ... So in the prayer session that followed they expressed their desire for more grace and perseverance to be able to build up these human and Christian values. Prtjise the Lord! □ -SIS. ROSITA FERNANDEZ, RVM November-December, 1982 Page 29 MARRIAGE OUT OF PITY Sfi\ Rev. PAUL E.M. SHEEHAN, S.J. Q. What should I do in my present situation? Father, i have acquired a wife by the arrangement of both parents of ours. I am going on 30 and my wife is just going on 18. In the very beginning when I was yet courting her but very hardly, because I was acutely morbidly aware of my physical defect (a poliomyelitis at the age of 4|, she frankly told me that actually she never loved me but only pitied me as she also helped me a lot to get her sympathy or pity. And now, we are husband and wife. And she is even now (or at the time this letter is written to you) conceiving our “first bom” by 6 months. But the present problem now Is that my mother, a very irritable one (despite her being so religious), r.lways is Impatierit with my wife who Is yet childish and irres ponsible in her ways. And there were even times that my wife who also became impatient with my mother retorted her by saying that she (mother) ought to remember those days when she (my wife) told her (my mother) that she accepted me only out of her pity on my mother and out of her respect to her (my wife’s) parents. Yet my mother heeded not my wife’s words. Now I’m really afraid that my wife, feeling that she is already in ill will with my mother, whom at first she pitied as she pitied me, would-change her mind, and hence be the cause of my potential failure in our married life! Because till now, my wife is always telling me that she is not yet totally committed with me — not unless perhaps If we would already have our chlld/chlldren, then that would perhaps be her right time to fully develop her love for me. However, Father, I have psychologized that my mother’s fundamental anger Is bent toward me, as she always recall those wasted money, tolls and times they were spending for my collegiate studies but failed five times. You know, Father, It had been my poignant wish to be a priest since my “age of reason” or at 7! But unfor tunately, when I graduated from High School In 1970, I approcahed the Bishop of the diocese. Bnt the said Bishop refused my application for a Seminary studies on these grounds: my scholastic standing was not satis factory, and my physical defect could be a hindrance to my involvement with the rigorous activities of a priest. Then feeling bitter at my rejection especially that I was that time so very young and at every Inch vulnerable to temptations of despair, I’ve lost my vision of a bright future, as I’ve perceived my religious vocation smashed by the bishop’s rejection! So It followed that my parents’ attempts to let me study In any school outside the Seminary were all in vain! 1 though I didn’t have any other interest than a priestly vocation. And now I’ve dared and unwittingly try loving and marrying that so very young girl without any means to support her except the fact that we now are living together with my parents since I am their only adopted child but think not so fortunate a child at that! A. My attempted answer will be much briefer than if you had only asked for my advice before you decided to marry. The main advice that I can give you now is just to make a supreme effort to make the best of the situation in which you have put yourself. Do not think that you are alone. So many others are in the same situation. Whenever we find ourselves in what seems to be a hopeless situation, it is then that we must turn confidently to God in prayer. The only other alternative is to give up hope and to continually seek escape in ways and means which only multiply our problems, e.g. drugs, drinking, sexual indulgence, etc. It seems that your biggest hope is that after your child comes, then love might enter into yoilr married life. Many times husband and wife find that the child brings them closer together. Whereas before they may well have been overconcerned with their own welfare and interest, now they have a common cause for con cern — the welfare and education of their child. There is also need to thank God that He has blessed you with a child of your own. That is a joy that your own foster parents never enjoyed. If you really love your own child, then I’m sure that there will be no future need for your child to be adopted as you were. You will also be able to raise your own children so that the/ never repeat the mistakes that you may have made — especially entering into a marriage out of pity. Be sure to teach your future children that as early as possible they should begin praying daily to know the Will of God for their future vocation in life. The three requirements for every vocation are: 1. To have the right intention, e.g. marriage demands only mutual love by both parties — never pity. 2. To’have the necessary qualities for that vocation, e.g. satisfactory intellectual attainment and good health — physical, mental and spiritual — for the priesthood. 3. Acceptance, e.g. for marriage — by the one you ask to marry you. For the priesthood — by the bishop of the diocese where you apply. If these three requisites are lacking then that is an indication frojn the circumstances of life that it is evi dently not God's Will that you enter the vocation which you yourself may desire very strongly. So, instead of saying that “I’ve perceived my reli gious vocation smashed by the bishop’s rejection!” I would rather say, according to our faith, that God has manifested His Will that your vocation is not to the priesthood. Instead, accept His Will humbly and now beg Him earnestly for the future success of your marriage and family. Page 30 CROSS CHRISTMAS No neon lights in Bethlehem The night that Jesus came; No glaring billboards, rainbow-hued, To magnify His name. Only a star... one, single star, To lead the questing sages, And yet, that star shall guide mankind Down through the countless ages. And ever since that wondrous gift That Christmas long ago, The flowers of Love bloom on untouched, In spite of cold and dew. Dear God, to all was Christmas given; But, perhaps, we understand it best Who knows bams best, and mangers, too, And weariness which cries for rest. And, then, we know how small beginnings Can grow to greatness, how a light Cupped by a hand may be sufficient To save a man lost in the night. So, perhaps, for us the Christmas story Seems nearer to our daily ways; Helps us to take our courage from it; Helps us to feel the thing we praise. Too long have wars held nations fast In a mad grip of blood and hate; How glad to know that now, at last. We need no longer dread that fate. Old Mother Earth lies spiritless, Her features dark and chilling; From stormclouds tangled in her hair White frosted stars come spilling. Then, suddenly, across her breast Small windows warm the gloaming With candles lit a million fold To bring her loved ones homing. —Francisco G. Tonogbanua November-December, 1982 Page 31 I s tennial Heritage Economico Assuranceplans Si 8 i .a THE HUNDRED YEARS HERITAGE FROM FR. 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