You could say I lost my belief in the holy Church
you could say I lost my sense of direction
you could say all of this and worse
You could say I lost my faith in the people on TV
you could say I’d lost my belief in our politicians
they all seemed like game show hosts to me…
- singer/songwriter Gordon Sumner aka “Sting”
IT’S BEEN a week, exactly seven days and all the “devotees to the cult of the yellow ribbon”, the padres and the madre de cacaos woke up and Rodrigo Duterte is still President, Leila “frailties of a woman” de Lima is still in jail and Maria Lourdes Sereno is no longer the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
As that “has been that never was” Jim Paredes twitted, “What a great day”!
Moi can only conclude that all those “pray overs”, “prayer rallies” and that so-called Jericho March didn’t seem to work, maybe just like that nincompoop Noynoy Aquino at the height of the Mamasapano Massacre, God turned off his cellphone.
What is it with these people? Do they really believe that some sort of “miraculous” ray would emanate from their open palms when they hover it over the head of whoever is their chosen one during those “pray overs”?
They did it with Leila “frailties of a woman” de Lima then that “Barefoot Lady from Naga” Leni Robredo, “Angry Bird” Andy Bautista and just recently Maria Lourdes Sereno.
Well, Leila is in jail probably eating saba for merienda. Leni is losing votes at the PET recount and from the look of things is on the last throes of her presumptive vice presidency. Andy resigned from Comelec scared shitless from being impeached and is now hiding in America while Maria Lourdes Sereno got booted out of the Supreme Court.
So yeah, the “pray overs” worked fortunately for the people and unfortunately for them as they say God works in mysterious ways.
“Pray overs” and “prayer rallies” are such abused words and actions they’re actually euphemisms of most accountable public officials when they’re caught with their knickers down and I mean sometimes literally with their pants down.
Here’s one pathetic and really ridiculous priest worth mentioning – Robert Reyes, the self-appointed “running priest.” No, he’s not on the same level as that “appointed son of God” Apollo Quiboloy, he’s much, much lower.
We need not elaborate on Sister Mary John Mananzan, the wannabe “Sister Stella L” from St. Scholastica; that moniker is already self-explanatory just like quo warranto, unless of course you’re an idiot living under a rock then we just have to view you with benevolence.
So what about this so-called running priest Robert Reyes? For starters he has been running around Metro Manila (well not exactly, he only pretends to run if TV cameras are around) saying that this is his form of protest against anything that has to do even remotely with President Rodrigo Duterte.
He says mass on the streets and runs around in front of TV cameras (and this always happens on cue) every time a drug pusher/addict is killed in a police drug bust, yet he did not even say a Hail Mary or walked a step for the 68 children vaccinated with Dengvaxia who died or for the 800,000 school children sentenced by Noynoy Aquino to “death by Dengvaxia.”
His latest antics was to dress in his priestly costume and walk, not run, in front of the Supreme Court and TV cameras, of course with a coffin in tow protesting the removal of Maria Lourdes Sereno as Chief Justice claiming such as the “death of democracy” hence the expensive coffin with him.
Was he arrested? Most probably not. So much for the so-called death of democracy. Laughing at him is not the “death of democracy”, rather democracy in action.
Notable is during the deliberations of the quo warranto petition, Fr. Robert Reyes sprinkled “holy water” at the gates of the Supreme Court to exorcise the “demon” out of the Supreme Court and it worked as Sereno was booted out as Chief Justice.
Does moi need to explain quo warranto and why she was booted out? I guess not as you are not a jaundiced idiot and have read and fully understood the 153-page decision of the Supreme Court re: quo warranto petition of the Solicitor General.
By the way, it’s not called the Supreme Court for nothing, meaning any decision or interpretation of the law/constitution it does is final whether you like it or not.
It is quite ironic that the Philippine Catholic Church is supposed to champion social justice yet through the actions of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines or CBCP, Fr. Robert Reyes, Sister Mary John Mananzan and the rest of the padres and madre de cacaos support Maria Lourdes Sereno – the champion of the oligarchs who was precisely rammed down the throats of the Judicial and Bar Council or JBC by Noynoy Aquino to protect Hacienda Luisita from undergoing land reform and distributed among the long-suffering and exploited tenants of that hacienda controlled by the Cojuangco Family.
Is this plain hypocrisy or just simply profitable? (brotherlouie16@gmail.com/PN)
