Think about it
A holy experience
By Jun Velasco
“Where two or three are gathered in my name, I am in the midst of them.“– Matthew 18:20
PANGASINAN Day — or the province’s foundation day — is April 5, but Pangasinenses can’t mark it this time with frolic because it falls on Holy Week.
And so the provincial government fixed it on April 11.
In case you don’t know it, we should thank our neighbor columnist Gonzalo Duque who, by an inspiration from a “saint,” came upon this historic idea for Pangasinan to find its very soul. We were a direct if first-hand witness to this discovery.
There was a process to fix the date. A group of historian and scholars were harnessed to visit the past, followed by debates, discussions, researches, and interviews so that no one would say that there was any trifling thing that marred the effort to launch the province’s date with history.
Salute the incumbent leadership, particularly Governor Spines, for the resolve to finally find its “baptismal” record. Some people with insatiable curiosity are won’t to entertain other ideas, but Duque says it’s now a done deal, pointing to the rigorous process that it has hurdled.
So happy birthday, Pangasinan on April 5. Birthday bash is on April ll.
See you there.
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As we go to press, we got a text message inviting us to a merienda cena to mark Boss Ermin’s 64th birthday. We got grounded somewhere in Central Pangasinan, hence we could only felicitate our fighting publisher-editor in this little democratic space.
It surprises us how the boss is able to squeeze his limited time to string together cold and voluminous facts and data in amid his hectic travel business in Manila and cough up with hard-hitting column articles weekly. He is one model of a community journalist who never sits on his laurels, being one of Philippine Press Institute’s eagle eyes that have courageously guarded press freedom to stay shining in these parts, and never allowing it to slide to license and unethical practice that’s so common in the work place. This is probably the reason scholars describe the Sunday Punch a gem in haystack.
It’s ennobling to work with Ermin and the Punch. Happy birthday, Sir.
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Our colleagues are wondering if a new monthly specializing on the evangelical would last what with its corp of editors and writers culled from the free-wheeling variety where vice and sin are everywhere.
They have forgotten that they (sinners) are precisely why God has sent Jesus Christ to our worldly world to bring them back to His fold.
There’s some good news going on The Eagle Times, now on its second edition. The “sinful variety” in so short a time are now on the road to domestication.
See? That’s what we have always meant. Words have power. We thought that the length of time — it’s only two months! — they have been immersing themselves in God’s word is making a difference in their lives.
We’ll write more about this in future issues. Have a holy experience this week and every week.
Halleluja!
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