Rosary campaign vs. China kicks off in Dagupan
FR SOC: TO PROTECT PH FROM AGGRESSOR
THE 50-day Rosary Campaign versus China’s aggression in the West Philippines kicked off June 27 at the St. John the Evangelist Cathedral in Dagupan and all its churches and chapels in the Lingayen-Dagupan Archdiocese.
June 27, when the Rosary Campaign began, was the Feast of Our Mother of Perpetual Help and will continue till the Feast of the Assumption on August 27.
Spearheaded by Archbishop Socrates Villegas of the Lingayen-Dagupan archdiocese, the Rosary Campaign is deemed as the church’s weapon to protect the Philippines from Communist China that had built artificial islands in the water considered by the Philippines as part of its territorial jurisdiction.
The Rosary Campaign was an offshoot to Villegas’ Pastoral Letter read in all masses at the St. John the Evangelist Cathedral and in all churches and chapels of the Lingayen-Dagupan Archdiocese on June 15 and 16.
Villegas precedes the Rosary Campaign with the prayer: “May the power of the rosary preserve our nation’s faith and freedom! May the power of the rosary crush the serpent’s head! May the power of the rosary drive away Satan’s power from our shores!“
He then asked all the Catholic faithful in the Archdiocese of the Lingayen-Dagupan to join in and invite others to do likewise.
Explaining on why a Rosary Campaign, Villegas said: “There is a moral issue on the interest of Filipinos in securing themselves and their future through the resources that the Creator has made available to them and the law of humankind recognizes to be theirs”.
He stressed that it is certainly a moral issue that many fisher folk had been deprived of the abundance that once allowed them at least a decent existence, and that has now forced them to rummage through the leftovers of Chinese poachers and encroachers”. (Leonardo Micua)
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