LINGAYEN-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas urged the people of Pangasinan to preserve the salt built through the work and sacrifice of their ancestors, telling them that it is their duty not only to receive and preserve it but to also entrust it to the future generations of Pangasinenses.

In his homily during the Thanksgiving Mass that opened the 442nd celebration of the Pangasinan Day at the Sison Auditorium last April 5, Villegas noted that the name salt or asin is embedded in the name of the province Pangasinan which used to make food palatable and as a preservative,  it is impossible to preserve food without salt.

The thanksgiving mass was attended by Governor Amado Espino III. members of the provincial board, department heads and members of the rank and file of the provincial government.

Archbishop Villegas said the salt was also used during the ancient times to seal an agreement when paper, ink or computer printer were not yet available and no lawyers to distinguish between paragraphs of the agreement.

What they did, he said, was one party took a handful of salt and the other did the same and exchanged these between themselves. And after the exchange, they observed what can be called today as a “palabra de honor.

“And in the age of fake news, in an age of Marites, in the age of trolls, in the age of paid liars, let everyone who lives in Pangasinan to keep their palabra de honor and let us restore honesty, let us restore integrity, let us keep our word, let us keep our word as sacred,” Villegas  also said.

He said if salt is palabra de honor, salt adds flavor and is a preservative, “so should we all”, Villegas concluded. (Leonardo Micua)

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