On thinking of March 8 and Women's Month

Friday, February 6, 2015

On thinking of March 8 and Women's Month

Today, more than ever, we must guard against loving death, preferring death over living, and immersing ourselves in that necrophiliac culture of thinking about the after life over and over again especially as the Lenten season will start soon.

Now I really wonder why our Women's Month is always preceded by the events leading to the Lenten week. By mid February, Ash Wednesday will be here and we shall find everyone thinking of the trials and travails of Christ. Actually, all year round, almost, I have been attending the Bible Studies Fellowship which allows me a deeper knowledge of the Old and New Testaments. In those books, we always encounter the life of Christ. And so to experience the Lenten season this early is too depressing for me.

Ash Wednesday used to occur in late March but somehow it got moved to February, and so I wonder why. So, when we celebrate Women's Month, it doesn't seem too right anymore. We cannot laugh and enjoy being women because then those moods would run counter to what is expected of us to be for the Lenten season -- where and when we have to be thinking of the Passion of Christ.

I should like to think that we, Christians must think of the Lenten days only from Holy Thursday through Easter Sunday. And on other days, we just need to think of the teachings of Christ, not how he was crucified. We need to think and practice Christian values of loving our neighbors, loving children, being theists, and peace-loving, most of all.

So how should we celebrate March 8, International women's day and which happens to be the birthdate of my son, E. Zigmundo III who died last July 28, 2014. Frankly speaking, I am at a loss for ideas on how to act on that day.

Anyway, happy thinking, Folks.

Emma

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PRG DECLARATION

Philippines for Righteous Governance (PRG)
Forbes Park, Makati City, March 26, 2009

WE, FILIPINOS OF DIFFERENT CREEDS, DECLARE AND BELIEVE IN THE EXISTENCE OF GOD (A DIVINE BEING) WHO CREATED HEAVEN AND EARTH; THUS, IN GOD WE TRUST.

We, are citizens of the Republic of the Philippines comprising of individuals and various organizations, and hereby state a DECLARATION OF UNITY in common vision for RIGHTEOUS GOVERNANCE and GENUINE SYSTEMS CHANGE. Because of this declaration of unity, we do hereby state the following:

That the Philipines today is in a state of MORAL DECAY perpetrated by our present leadership who has shamelessly displayed the absence of morality in governance, integrity, justice and love of country.
Our nation is tainted with crimes against God and humanity where HUMAN RIGHTS are systematically violated resulting in the disappearance and death of over a thousand victims. The past several administrations had never instituted a GENUINE LAND REFORM that could have resulted in economic prosperity, promotion of nationalism and morality, dignity in the Filipino; thus we cannot anymore stand as mere spectators of dismal and flagrant display of historical failures to bring about GENUINE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC REFORMS.

That the Philippines today needs GENUINE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC REFORMS that will be mustered by NON-TRADITIONAL POLITICIANS and a few exceptional traditional politicians at all levels of public governance, from the Presidency down to the Barangay Captain level. They will run the Philippines to be a great country with righteous governance, with shame; will possess integrity, selflessness and not greed; must dispense proper justice, promote peace, push for poverty alleviation, put the country back to order, enhance ecological balance, uplift morality, good values, and LOVE OF FAMILY, and be more nationalistic through LOVE OF COUNTRY.

thirdforce - PRG

Friday, February 6, 2015