RECENTLY Kris Aquino, in what can only be described as a desperate attempt to jumpstart her failed showbiz career and credibility, launched another of her predictable “hospital bed scene” complete with all the tubes and no make-up of a seemingly unglamorous face of a very sick woman.
All these after having a falling out with her financial manager Nikko Falcis and exposed as the chief financier of what can only be described as a legally ugly untalented blogger Jover Laurio who’s main purpose is to attack relentlessly the person and government of President Rodrigo Duterte with the hope of destabilizing it, in the process bringing it down.
All that bring to mind the original “Drama Queen” and her equally rabid and stupid “devotees”, hence this revisit.
What was once a creeping movement calling for Cory Aquino to be canonized by the Vatican as a saint has escalated. And Moi is not surprised considering how the “devotees to the cult of the yellow ribbon” venerate her. It’s a cross between idolatry and blind hero-worship, perhaps even more.
It would not also be a surprise if these “devotees to the cult of the yellow ribbon” create their own religion and build their own church (they can very well afford it) in the name of St. Cory Aquino.
After all it is Cory Aquino from hence the devotion to the yellow ribbon came forth, showering the devotees with eternal bliss and 72 virgins – either male or female, depending on one’s sexual preference – awaiting for them in paradise.
Excerpts from an article by Ilda of www.getrealphilippines.com/:
Apparently, a certain Father Catalino Arevalo had been patiently waiting over the last six years to start the beatification process of Cory before being canonized. The rules set by the Catholic Church dictates that the process can only start six years after the person’s death. Cory died in 2009 and Arevalo, who proposed the idea back in 2015, may not be prepared to wait another minute to begin this outrageous project.
This move to push Cory’s sainthood is nothing but pure vanity on the part of those who support it. Some Filipinos who are allied with the Aquinos just want the opportunity to tell the whole world that “Hey, we have another saint and it’s our third one!” As if having another saint is going to save the Philippines from being pulled down to the gutter by corrupt and incompetent public servants and the voters who put them there.
Discerning Filipinos which comprise the majority of the natives living in these islands have always been aware that this sainthood brouhaha is not only politically motivated but has ulterior motives as well.
A case in point: During the local elections in Quezon City at the height of the popularity of then President Noynoy Aquino where it was de rigueur for any wannabe politician to wear the color yellow.
A candidate for councilor of the 1st District of Quezon City, a certain Lena Marie Juico, was giving out comic book-like pamphlets with a storyline that goes something like this:
An armed hold-upper attacked her while she was sitting in her parked car. Sensing the assailant was about to shoot her, Lena Marie Juico closed her eyes and prayed to “Tita Cory” to protect her from harm and according to her, the gun misfired and the man ran away seeing security guards approaching.
A miracle no less and all because of “Tita Cory’s” divine intervention. Take note, people, she is not even a saint yet but she can already perform miracles if you to pray to her and ask for help.
Quick, canonize Cory Aquino. Erect statues all over Metro Manila. Better still, all over the country put her image inside all the churches and require all the natives to donate 10 percent of their income to the “Church of the Most Holy Cory Aquino.”
If Cory Aquino is a saint, then Noynoy and Kris are borne out of “immaculate conception.” Mever mind her other offsprings; they were born the regular way, they’re not that important to be declared “holy.”
And this is the book that the “devotees to the cult of the yellow” has been pulling all stops to have it banned from local bookstores and in the same way they have been doing with Aries C. Rufo’s Altar of Secrets.
“PRESIDENT AQUINO: SAINTHOOD POSTPONED”
By Lewis E. Gleeck, Jr.
This is the best book about former President Cory Aquino’s ways of governance resulting in regression, vengeance, and her tolerance for incompetence and corruption among her cronies and relatives. To make this happen, she had to double-cross all those who brought her to power. Her actions were all motivated by pique, pride or prejudice, which she robed in pious sanctimony by raising the flag of righteous indignation.
President Cory Aquino’s pious and do-gooder image; heralded with fanfare; became the bastion of her administration. This gave birth to the “Yellow Cult” that dominated our political landscape for more than three decades after 1986. The author asserts that “Never has one nation judged another’s leader so inaccurately: they believed they had found a saint, but in the end found her just another sinner.”
So make Cory Aquino a saint. Really, who cares? It will most probably do more harm to the Philippine Catholic Church as its credibility is now on its lowest and this will just bring it down a few more notches lower.
Perhaps more pray overs, church bells ringing by Archbishop Socrates Villegas and running around by Fr. Robert Reyes should do the trick./PN
