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Opinion: Election Benediction

Submitted by Leo Claridad on Mon, 05/13/2013 - 07:04
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  • Negros Opinion

Political campaigns were over. We have seen enough. We have heard enough. There are so many candidates, so many issues. We see both sides and it’s hard to know how best to vote. For sure, we learned about these candidates and the issues that bind them. Definitely today we are going to vote. And we need one thing - we need to pray that God’s will for this country be done in this election.

Now many ask. How would Jesus pray for today? Marilyn Morgan Helleberg, following the prayer pattern of Jesus, shared this prayer for us: "Our Father, You are the heavenly Head of this country. May Your name always be hallowed here. May we choose leaders who will further the coming of Your kingdom. May Your will be done in this election and throughout the earth, as it is in heaven.

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Bahin sa Hiligaynon: Operation Kamang

Submitted by Leo Claridad on Sat, 05/11/2013 - 07:43
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Dupoy-dupoy
Leo Claridad

Ang iban nga kandidato subong nga duha na gid lang ka adlaw kag piniliay na, gina kordam, ginatrankaso, ginanerbyos, nagadalalagko ang punggod, daw indi mahim-os masako ang pamati sa report sang mga lideres. Ang naga pisngo na, ang tingug nga daw ginasip-on nga piso, paus kag medyo hungaw na ang panghambal, ang iban daw gakaunot ang bigote, kag ang iban indi mahim-us, indi makatulog bisan may lamharon kag matahum nga lin-ay sa kilid. Daw ginatamasok na gid man ang iban nga kandidato kay ti, sa matuod lang, kon matanda ka nga kandidato, karon pa lang nga adlaw makita okon mainagmo na gid man kon madaug ka ukon madahug paidalum sa lunes nga eleksyon. Ang iban naman iya, may contingency pa. May katapusan pa nga hirit. Abi, nyo kon ananu? Project O.K. - Operation Kamangay.

Katapusan ini nga pamaagi sang mga kandidato. Sa vespereas sang adlaw sang pinili-ay ara dira magalagaw si Judas Escariote, sa iya classic, Operation Kamang. Abi pagkaaga eleksyon, sa gab-e pa lang bisitahan kamu sang mga lideres sa inyo balay, isipon kon pila kamu ka bilog nga nagaboto kag dira isipan kamu sang kwarta subra sa kantidad nga ginahatag sang panguntra. Kon ang sa pihak nga kampo nagahatag 200 pesos kada isa ka bumuloto, pasubrahan na ya sang panguntra kag hatagan 500 to 1,000 pesos.

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Opinion: Embracing Our Roots

Submitted by Leo Claridad on Wed, 05/08/2013 - 08:09
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  • Negros Opinion

It has always been my sentiment that our indigenous people had been the sustainer of our land as a nation and as a people. They bear with them a deep sacramentalism of the existence of humanity vis-a-vis with the land and nature therein. And had been continually played a greater part of contribution in terms of land and life, much more in national development.

It is a dismal situation that for centuries our indigenous people, ‘kaliwat’/‘kalahi’, were pushed into periphery, become margins of society where before they dominate it both culture and beliefs. They were victims of modern day ethnocide. What are these modern-day ethnocide? One is known as development aggression. Business and economic interests venture into indigenous peoples’ areas to extract resources and establish plantations. Whereas, the fruit of their project ventures do not flow back to displaced indigenous communities.

Another modern ethnocide is in the face of militarization. The real intent of establishing military forces in a country is to defend the country and people against any foreign aggression. However, in these modern times, the Philippines maintained her defence establishment to serve the interest of the government and foreign business aggressors, acting as back-up against any protestors of the land. Worst, tribal rituals and practices have been desecrated. This modern ethnocide is a systemic process of destruction of our indigenous cultures (in Negros and Panay: Aetas and Negritoes), traditions and systems. All these destruction processes are is in the name of the country’s development at the expense of our indigenous peoples.

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Bahin sa Hiligaynon: Ngaa Wala Mo Ginhimo? Erehe?

Submitted by Leo Claridad on Sat, 05/04/2013 - 06:53
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Dupoy-dupoy

Ginsulat ni Leo Claridad

Isa katalalupangdon nga wakal’ ang naggwa sa mga bibig sang isa ka nagapapili bilang Mayor sang syudad sang Bacolod, nga kon sya pagatugutan sang pumuloyo sang Bacolod nga mangin Mayor, iya ini pagahimu-on nga Metropolitan Bacolod Area, katulad bala sang Metropolitan Manila Area.

Sa akon ordinaryo nga pagpamati, daw maayo man ina nga promisa ugaling, bisan paano indi ako maka-reconcile kay suno sa akon ihibalo, ang pag crear sang isa ka syudad nga mangin isa ka Metropolitan Area, ginapaagi sa legislation, i.e. ginapasar sa Kongreso kag ginapirmahan sang Presidente. Indi nga ang Mayor ang may otoridad sa pagdeclara sang iya syudad nga isa ka Metro Area. Sa malip-ot nga paghangup, dapat ang Kongresman sang syudad sang Bacolod amo ang magpasar sini sa Kongreso.

Nagdugang ang akon interes kay ang naga promisa sini isa sadto anay ka Kongresista sang Bacolod kag karon nagapapili pagka Mayor. Ang pamangkot ko, ano, nagliwat na ang pama-agi sa pagdeclarar sang isa ka duog ukon syudad nga mangin Metropolitan Area? Kon nagliwat na ang pamaagi, sang san-o ini ginligwat nga patakaran? Siguro si Kongresman Monico makasabat sini kay te malawig man ang iya pagpungko sa Kongreso, basi wala ta ya kabalo nga ginligwat nila ang patakaran. Be that as it may, ginligwat gid man ukon wala ang pamaagi sa pagdeklarar sang Bacolod nga mangin Metropolitan Area, interesado lang ako sina nga bagay kay nagakasayuran ina nga pwede gali ang Bacolod City mangin isa ka katulad sang Metropolitan Manila area nga may pinasahi nga jurisdiction kag tawgon nga Metropolitan Bacolod Area/Authority, te, ngaa karon lang ina madumduman? Wala bala ina sadto madumduman ni Kongresman Monico? Abi pahangpa man kami, indi na lang kami pagpatiyuga sa mga sabat sang mga barker. Iderecho lang bala sabat, kay pwede man gali mangin Metro Bacolod ang syudad ta, ti nga-a karon lang nadumduman himo-on kay malawig man ang inyo pagpungko sa Kongreso?

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Opinion: Responsible

Submitted by Leo Claridad on Tue, 04/30/2013 - 07:12
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  • Leo Claridad
  • Negros Opinion

Let me being with a word from the late Pope Pius XII, "I don’t want collaborators, only people to execute my orders."

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Do you know that "only fifteen percent of the (Papal) exhortation ("Familiaris Consortio") was taken from the view of the bishops." "The Apostolic Exhortation" entitled Familiaris Consortio was written by the late Pope John Paul II, after a month long synod of bishops. That was in 1980 where key bishops "attempted to raise the issue of contraception and the anomalous situation of Catholics who had remarried after divorce and without annulment." Said "Apostolic Exhortation" was passed, however, "if a consensus was reflected, it was such as John Paul alone determined." In short, for the Church, the words ‘collegiality", and "dialogues" are mere theatricals.

Now let’s go to other roadpath. The people’s reaction to the Church’ stand against Reproductive Health Law is a fruit of misunderstanding and ignorance of what is really the Church dying for and what is really the law is about. What the Church is dying for is "life", that is, the life of a person, to be preserved. Hence, the life in a mother’s womb aborted, even in cases where the life of the mother is in danger, let the mother die as long as the life in the womb is not aborted. In terms of family life, the Church teaches that women (wives) should be slave to men (husband).

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Bahin sa Hiligaynon: Ahay Simbahan Kaluoy

Submitted by Leo Claridad on Sat, 04/20/2013 - 07:27
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  • Leo Claridad

Dupoydupoy
Ni Leo Claridad

Adlaw-adlaw daw nagasaka ang temperatura sang kainit ni haring adlaw. Alas siete y media pa lang sa aga masakit sakit na ang silak sang adlaw. Ang mainit nga temperatura kag mapaang nga huyop sang hangin nagapadugang sang kamala sang aton lawas, nagahatag kaluya bisan sa aton paggiho kag ini man nagahatag sing kainiton sa aton ulo. Nagamala imo utok, mamala na nga daan, hehehe, dinugangan pa sa kainiton sang panahon, teh, gagwa gid ang tinago sang iya pagkakutos. Ay siling gane sang kilala ko nga psychiatrist, ining mainit nga panahon, magluwas sa heatstroke, kon indi ka sini maayo, mabuang ka pro masyado ini ka dilikado nga panahon. Malapit na nga daan nga magtiyog ang ulo mo sa kahimtangan kag nagalingin na nga daan imo ulo sa pagbalanse sang kon sin-o maayo nga pilion sa palaabuton nga eleksyon...ay basi magbuang ka pa gid sa kainiton. Take it easy, man. Huo eh, sin-o ang indi magbuang sina nga hambalon mo ‘ya nga traidor ang isa ka kandidato nga sadto anay alkalde sang ciudad kag gapapili pagka kongresista, sa pila ka mamag-an kag recycled nga mga alegasyones, pero sa isa naman ‘ya ka kandidato nga sadto kongresista kag karon gapapili sa ikaduha nga hugnat sa pagka kongresista, maathag kag mabug-at ang ginapas-an nga akusasyon: kwarta sang Basoc, Fertilizer Scam, Ang mga computer nga wala mapuslan, kag madamo pa, wala ginakabig nga traidor. Kon imo hangpon, nagakahulugan lang ina nga yadtong maathag nga pagpangawat sa kaban sang gobyerno indi na gali karon makabig nga isa ka pagtraidor sa pumuluyo, tsk, tsk, nagliwat na gid man ang panahon, makabuloang gid man. Kon natuon ka imo sa old values nga ang paggarnatsar sang kwarta sa ang banwa isa ka pagtraidor sa pumuluyo, te budlayan ka gid eh kon sin-o pilion mo.

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Bahin sa Hiligaynon: Takus kag Angay

Submitted by Leo Claridad on Sat, 04/13/2013 - 07:01
  • Bahin sa Hiligaynon
  • Leo Claridad

Dupoydupoy

Ni Leo Claridad

Sa aton prefacio sa tion sang aton paghiwat sang "communion" gina hambal naton bilang "oficiant" ang mga pulong, "Takus kag angay gid, igo kag mapuslanon nga amo gid ikaw dayawon, O Ginoo, sa tanan nga tion..." ina nga mga pulong indi lamang isa ka pasapayan nga pagporotikol kundi ina pulong nga napun-an sang pagpahanumdom sa tagsa-tagsa ka Kristiyano nga ang iya kabuhi, lawas, espiritu, kag mga pagpangabuhi upod na ang sahi sang iya pagkatawo (personalidad kag pagbinatasan) isa ka buhi nga halad sa iya Dios.

Kon suyuron, takus kag angay, mapuslanon gid sa isa ka tawo ang maggamit sa kaalam (critical thinker) sa pagpili sang iya botohon sa pag-abot sang eleksyon. Dapat mag-usisa sing tul-id ano kag ngaa magpapili ini nga tawo, ano kag ngaa dapat ini nga tawo pilion. Ang tanan nga kandidato maayo (good), pangitaon ta ang mas o pinaka maayo (better or best). Subong man (likewise), bisan maayo ina sila, may ara man na sila nga tinago nga kalainan okon indi maayo nga hinimoan (private man or public), gane pilion gid ang makabig "lesser evil," kag ini nagakinahanglan sing madalumdalum nga critical thinking. Ang buot silingon, kon normal kag may ihibalo ikaw nga tawo, indi ka magpadala dala sa kwarta nga ihatag sang kandidato sa imo, batuna ang grasya, kag bahala ka na sang korisan mo sa balota. Indi ka basta lang magpati sa gina taghol/ngurob sang mga ido-ido nga ginabayran sang kandidato. Pangabuhian na ‘ya sang mga manugtaghol sa tion sang eleksyon. Kundi ang giapaabot sa tagsa ka bumoloto amo nga gamiton niya ang iya utok - mangin maalamon kag mainandamon sa pagbaton sang kon ano man nga ginawaslik (sang kamot, kon laway kag tingog) sang gapapili.

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Opinion: Habamus Papam

Submitted by Leo Claridad on Fri, 03/15/2013 - 07:22
  • Gentle Whisper
  • Leo Claridad
  • Negros Opinion

As many Filipinos still asleep, the dawn of a new day at the State of Vatican City, the twin of the Ecclessia Catholica Apostolica Sancta Romana (Holy Roman Catholic Apostolic Church) reverberates with the spell of "habamus papam" "we have a pope!" This time the Pope came from the Latin American peoples. The new pope chose the name "Francis". It is of Vatican/Roman Church tradition that once you are elected ‘pope,’ you have to choose another name to carry the title. So much so, every cardinal-candidate for pope position has to prepare a titular name. Thus, the newly-elected Pope chose to bear the name St. Francis…henceforth he will be called Pope Francis.

Traditionally, the pope chooses names from Roman saints. It isn’t a joke to be a Pope. A Pope will be the head of the Roman Church at the same time as President or Head of State/Government of the tiniest country in the world – the "Statu Citta de Vaticano" (State of Vatican City).

Thus, unknowingly to many faithful, priests, bishops carries dual personality, once represent Catholic church and the other the Vatican Sate. Yes, the Vatican State and The Roman Church is a ‘siamese twin,’ two heads with one intestine.

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Opinion: Welcoming Bishops

Submitted by Leo Claridad on Tue, 03/12/2013 - 07:49
  • Gentle Whisper
  • Leo Claridad
  • Negros Opinion

A news item appeared in one of our national dailies that there are Catholic Bishops who were not inclined to give their bishop’s blessings to candidates who supported the RH Law incase these candidates will ask for their blessings. On the other hand, it can be similarly noted that there are also bishops who will readily give their blessing to pro-reproductive health (pro-RH) candidates. These Bishops are worth mentioning and their gesture is commendable. Cubao Catholic Bishop Honesto Ongtioco said "Everybody is welcome. No discrimination. We are not partisan." Basilan Bishop Martin Jumoad saw no reason those candidates could not be welcome for to him "a pro-RH candidate is a child of God and a brother and sister to me." Jaro Archbishop Angel Lagdameo expresses that "courtesy welcome is due a courtesy visit." Malolos Bishop Jose Oliveros shared the same sentiment. And like the others, Maasin Bishop Preciouso Cantillas said, "As a pastor, I welcome anyone who would ask for God’s blessings." Have these bishops and an archbishop made any violation to Roman Catholic/Vatican State edict? Did they stand firm not on their conviction but to the teachings of Kristo to sow love and understanding and not of evil and hatred? Does it mean these bishops and archbishop favor the Reproductive Health (RH) Law? What was approved in RH Law is all about quality of life not just "life." It strengthens the welfare of mothers, woman and child, and the responsibility of the husband.

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Opinion: Dupoydupoy

Submitted by Leo Claridad on Sat, 03/02/2013 - 07:47
  • Bahin sa Hiligaynon
  • Leo Claridad

Ni Leo Claridad

Bishop Vicente Navarra magsulod sa prisohan bangud sa ila tarpaulin nga nagapahayag sang mga kandidato sa pagkasenador nga nagpabor sa RH Bill kag sa mga nagpamalabag sini sa nagligad nga Kongreso. Kon ang pagtulok sang gobyerno sa Iglesia Katolika isa ka Simbahan, te, indi pwede mapapriso ining si Navarra kay una bes yara nahamtang ang tarpaulin sa laguerta nga ginapanag-iyahan sang sina nga Simbahan.

Ikaduha, magluwas nga yanang "telon" o tarpaulin nga ina yara sa ila kaugalingon nga laguera, ang yana nga simbahan nagapautwas lamang sang kon anu ang sa ila pagpati kag sandig sa ila ginkaisahan nga regulasyon nga aprobado sang ila simbahan-pungsod Vaticano, bisan pa wala ini nagakahulugan nga ina nga ginformulate nga ruling nagarepresentar sa pangkabilogan nga Katoliko.

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