Sister Raquel Blog

eastwind journals 15

 

eastwind journals are the media writings of Bernie Lopez, which reflects his personal views and not of the healing ministry.

 

_____________________________________

THE TAAL LAKE FISH KILL

Greed as the Mother of Man-made Disasters

 

By Bernie Lopez

redgate77@gmail.com

The Philippine Daily Inquirer

Front page, Dec 2011

 

PART 1 – What happened at Taal?

 

This article is an attempt to pinpoint the causes of the fishkill in Taal Lake, the social forces and technical reasons behind the carnage. It is based on a group interview of three residents from two Taal towns, who have all requested anonymity.

 

Let us first talk of the carrying capacity of the lake. According to the residents interviewed, the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) set a limit of 10,000 fishcages which the residents said was very arbitrary and had very little scientific basis. Thy claimed that the actual figure is in the vicinity of 15,000, by broad estimates, or 50% more than the BFAR limit. The number of fishcages is actually not known because when BFAR takes a regular count, shrewd fishcagers tow their mobile cages to areas where the count has been done. There is also an existing practice of duplicating the fishcage license for other cages, so a true count is impossible. BFAR cannot be blamed totally as it does not have the funds for enough boats and personnel to do proper monitoring. So, there is a dangerous free-for-all in Taal Lake.

 

Overfeeding is one of the major causes of the fishkill. There are two types of feeds, the floating kind and the sinking kind. Fishcagers mostly use the sinking kind because it is cheaper. It is made up of sticky pellets which break up into fine powder when they hit the water. The main ingredient of the feeds is chicken manure. Let us say that a cager uses 20 kilos of feeds per day, only about half or even less is consumed. The other 10 kilos sinks to the bottom of the deep lake.

 

I pushed some figures with the interviewees. One said that in a seminar, he wasa told that the rough estimate was one ton of feeds per cage per month. Due to overfeeding, let us say the cagers use two tons. Let us take the conservative figure of 10,000 cages, which translates into a total lake input of a staggering 20,000 tons of feeds a month, half of which, or 10,000 tons sinks to the bottom of the lake. Let us say the fish defecate half of the 10,000 tons of feeds. So that is a total of 15,000 tons per month at the bottom of the lake. This translates into 180,000 tons of waste per year at the bottom of the lake. This is an alarming figure but cagers do not know and do not care.

 

The feeds are rich in nitrogen, triggering a rapid bloom of lake weed at the surface (called ‘digman’ in the local dialect). According to one resident, 10 years ago there were no weeds at all. When it started to proliferate, cagers sold it to Bio-research which uses it for aquarium decor. Today, the weeds are so profuse, that its price is too cheap to bother selling. Today, the weeds are so dense that boats can hardly navigate Taal Lake.

 

When the plentiful lake weeds die and are replaced by a new bloom, they rot and sink to the bottom, joining the manure-rich unused feeds at the bottom. Because the lake is deep, this invisible time bomb takes time to explode through gradual decomposition. The rotting feeds and lake weed sucks up the oxygen at the bottom. In time, waves, currents, and wind, especially during a storm, churn up the lake and brings the bottom water with little oxygen up to surface and the fish die of suffocation. The weeds moved by current and wind also acts as a powerful mixer.

 

BFAR has constantly warned the cagers not to overfeed as they are in truth poisoning the lake that gives them livelihood. But no one listens. Greed is the mother of  disaster. The vengeance of Mother Nature is the karma for greed. Cagers want their stocks to grow fast. The feed cost is a trifling compared to the windfall of selling large fish. A resident reported that BFAR admitted that there was pressure from the Local Government for them not to report their findings, to protect the industry. This is because there are mayors and town officials who are themselves fishcagers. This unholy alliance of government and private sector based on greed is the social force that has killed Taal Lake.

 

The number of cagers grew rapidly from 100 to 15,000 in ten years time, by broad estimates of the residents. Talisay, where fishcages is gradually killing the tourism businesses, is dominated by rich Taiwanese and Koreans. Because they have the money, suspected by residents to be ‘hot’ laundered money from Taipei and Seoul, they improve on the fishcages, replacing bamboo floaters with circular steel pipes, so the storms can no longer smach the cages, like before. It was a Filipino invention funded by foreigners. Today, an average size cage will easily cost a million pesos, making it a big time industry out of the reach of locals, encouraging the ‘invasion’ by foreigners. A resident ventured to say about 30% of cages in Taal are now owned by foreigners.

 

The next question I asked the interviewees was – what do we do to save the lake? One suggested it is beyond saving. Anoter suggested to regulate sinking feeds. Setup a clearing house where all feeds have to pass. This is impossible because there are many access roads to the lake perimeter road. This is also impossible to control even at the source, the factories making them. It would be easy to smuggle in feeds. Perhaps the only way is a total ban on sinking feeds.

 

Another suggested to regulate the producers. This will not work as long as there is a partnership between local government and fishcagers, which can pressure the regulator, BFAR, to look the other way. There was a time when an army-navy consortium burned illegal cages. This ‘victory’ was short lived. They were replaced by bigger cages owned by richer and more powerful cagers. Also, most of those burned were rotting cages, saving the cagers from the cost of dismantling them. The army navy did them a favor.

 

Added to this mix of social forces is the violent politics during election for a perfect environmental broth. Incoming officials will need to get fishcages to pay for campaign funds.

 

The final solution is obviously a total ban on fishcages for a given period, say of two years. But it is not known if Taal can be rehabilitated, and at what cost, and for how long. In truth, is Taal Lake dead and beyond resurrection? The ‘final final’ or ‘major major’ solution will have to come from the fishcagers themselves to rehabilitate the lake, and regulate themselves not by law but by initiative. They have learned their lesson from this sudden lightning bolt out of nowhere that hit them, where they have lost millions.

 

_______________________________

Part 2 – Taal Lake Geological History

 

By Bernie Lopez

‘eastwind journals‘

Opinyon Magazine, Dec. 18, 2011

 

This is Part 2, a sequel to last week’s Part 1 – ‘What happened at Taal?”, based on geological research and interviews of two ex-fishcage owners.

 

When the Sumatran tiger gorges on an adult male deer, he can easily consume 15 kilos of meat and not eat for the next three weeks. The Taal fishcager is very much like the Sumatran tiger, gorging on profits today in anticipation of a looming famine. Greed fuels the destruction of the very lake that gives him nourishment. BFAR Director Asis Perez says the fishkill could have been prevented if cagers followed rules on fish maintenance.

 

The problem with the fishcagers is they are so powerful, having connections in local government and congress, that they can defy the whole world in their environmental crime. They are so rich that they can launch their own media blitz. In their greed, they are begging for the imposition of a moratorium on fishcaging. The powerful fishcagers had their day, a media blitz through a front page article where they showed their powerful political friends feasting on bangus from Taal Lake. It was a futile attempt to save the day, because everybody knew it was all for show. The problem persists and will not go away, until the fishcagers undergo a spiritual transformation.

 

About a million years ago, Taal Volcano was as perfect a cone as Mount Fuji in Japan. An explosion ripped the entire volcano apart, one of the largest in prehistory,  easily matching 10,000 Hiroshima bombs. It would make the volcanic explosions in Krakatoa in East Java or Mount Saint Helens in Washington, USA, look like firecracker affairs. What was left is the present-day caldera whose rim extends through Cavite, Laguna, and Batangas.

 

Through time, rain water accumulated in the caldera, forming the present-day Taal Lake. A small crater within the big crater (the caldera) formed, which is now Volcano Island. The entire Tagaytay area, with its scenic view, is one of the higher rims of that caldera. Mount Makulot in Cuenca, Batangas, is a ‘bulge’ on that rim.

 

Taal Lake, although much smaller in area than Laguna Lake, is theorized to have just as much water, if not even more. Laguna Lake is the largest nationwide but is extremely shallow, having an average depth of only eight meters. Taal Lake is much smaller but extremely deep, considering that water filled up a portion of the original magma vein that has cooled off (see graphics). So Taal Lake dives down deep vertically through this vein and was somehow connected to an underground river that emptied to the sea. No one knows how deep Taal Lake is or where the mouth of the underground river is, perhaps somewhere deep in Balayan Bay or even the South China Sea. Lunar tides do not affect Taal Lake, perhaps because it is so deep.

 

The geological theory of Taal Lake connected to the sea is based on the fact that the native tawilis is nothing but a mutant, the only evolved fresh-water sardine in the world. The succulent maliputo is nothing but a fresh-water version of the salt-water talakitok. It is theorized that these fish migrated to Taal, and adapted to fresh water. Perhaps the connection to the sea is now closed, no one knows. The tawilis ‘disappears’ in December because it goes down deep to spawn. By March, they come up with their fingerlings. The tawilis is an endangered exotic species because of over-fishing. Also, the carnivorous tilapia which are released from cages by typhoons, eat the tawilis.

 

If the lake has lost its connection to the sea, then sunken excess feeds and rotting lake weed accumulate forever at the bottom. If there is no outlet there, it is a dead end. If there is an outlet, it would be too narrow and would theoretically clog up anyway as it goes horizontally towards the sea. No one knows how the heavy waste churned upward from such low depths. Could it have been some volcanic rumblings? Pagasa should be able to give us some readings in the last few weeks before the fishkill. There were three simultaneous minor earthquakes before the fishkill, in Leyte, Isabela and Mindoro.

 

No one knows if Taal Lake can still be rehabilitated. Part 1 estimated 180,000 of waste per year before the fishkill. In a rapid growth situation since 1995, the accumulated amount of waste at the ‘bottomless pit’ may be circa 1.7 million metric tons. At extreme depth, we are not sure we can siphon that much, and even if we can, the staggering cost will rival the total profits from the lake since cages were born. The only outlet of Taal Lake is the Pansipit River, but this is only at the surface. Former President Ramos had the river mouth to the lake dredged, which was clogged by solid waste and silt, but only for a while.

 

The Taal Lake fishkill involved 2,056 metric tons of fish from 339 cages worth P144 million within 12 days. The reason greed is hard to resist is because of the staggering lake profit of about P19 billion a month, estimated broadly from the above figures.

 

The fishcage industry had good and bad effects. The bad effect was it suppressed the local duck industry by killing the shells which the ducks ate, according to fishcage owners. It is also killing the tourism industry by inhibiting access to Volcano Island. Foreign fishcagers were actually tourists who saw the profit potentials of fishcages. That is why they are today concentrated at Talisay, the tourist staging area to Volcano Island.

 

The good effect was the fishcages were a truly poverty alleviating force. The income from fishcages stopped the illegal logging in Mount Banaga, which started turning green once more. At the start, there was a 50-50 sharing among cage owners and fisherfolk as laborers, who were able to send their children to school, who have become OFWs, especially in Italy.

 

At the peak of fishcage growth, labor was imported from the Visayas, triggering a denser population. To this day, these outsiders remain and have mingled with the natives. If the fishcage industry goes down, a lot of people will go hungry. The key is the synergy between Man and Nature. Nature can nourish us as long as we respect and dialogue with her. The question is – are we too late in saving Taal Lake? Can we stop powerful forces from continuing to raped her?

 

Unlike Laguna Lake, which has planktons, Taal Lake has none, inducing more imported chemicals for intense feeding. One feed supplier reported bad debts of P2 million during typhoon seasons. In the beginning, the accepted stocking density per cage was 10,000 fish. Greed has increased this to a staggering 50,000. The super-greedy have dared to go up to 100,000. They simply overfeed and those which die are sold anyway. Because cages were near the shore areas for easy access, crowding and intense concentration of feed chemicals were inevitable there, while the center of the lake was clean and unoccupied.

 

Laguna Lake had retired generals as fishcagers, spawning armed guards and violence. Taal Lake is fortunate to not have such armed personnel. Laguna Lake has hundreds of factories spewing more deadly toxic chemicals, including heavy metals. These factories pay an environmental fee which keeps the LLDA alive, but is ironically helpless to police the factories in fear of losing income. Nowhere in the world does environmental fees cause more environmental damage. Taal Lake is fortunate that there are no mushrooming of factories. A disaster in Laguna Lake will dwarf the Taal Lake fishkill, the next that needs to be featured in print.

 

redgate77@yahoo.com

 

About the Author

After finishing MA Communication Arts at New York University in 1980, author Bernie Lopez drifted across Europe for two years in his adventures dubbed eastwind, hitchhiking 25,000 kilometers across 18 countries. He will soon launch a book on eastwind, “Discovering Your Inner Self”. Returning to the Philippines in 1984, the drifter evolved into a journalist/columnist, television documentary film producer, and professor at Ateneo’s graduate school. He is the administrator of the blog site of Sister Raquel Reodica, RVM, cancer healer of the Lord. For those who need healing, visit our site at –

www.sisterraquel.com / eastwind@motherignaciahealingministry.com

foodforthesoul

MEDITATION POSTERS 108

OUR CHRISTMAS POSTERS

To blow up, click on image

To download, right click,

then click ‘save image as’

x

**********************************************************************

APPENDIX – HEALING MINISTRY’S COMPLETE LIBRARY

**********************************************************************

 

Browse thru the ministry’s extensive archives

of inspirational materials – Powerpoints, Youtubes,

prayer poems, meditation posters,  anecdotes.

Save this link for future readings.

 

http://www.sisterraquel.com/2010/04/archive00-entire-ministry-library/

 

The Lord Heals in Cyberspace

amdg

 

 

eastwind journals 14

 

eastwind journals are the personal journalistic writings of Bernie Lopez, and are not part of the healing ministry. Any views or comments are his own and does not reflect those of the ministry.

 

_____________________________________

THE WAR AGAINST THE SUPREME COURT

 

By Bernie Lopez

Advance copy, ‘eastwind journals‘

Opinyon Magazine, Dec. 18, 2011

 

The war is not really against the Supreme Court per se but against some justices, specifically Chief Justice Corona and the eight other GMA appointees who are being accused of trying to get GMA off the hook. But the danger is that the war may undermine the Supreme Court itself and trigger a constitutional crisis.

Eight big worms started creeping out of the box as soon as it was opened by a congressional impeach-Corona decision. Things that had been hidden for so long, or ignored, or shelved have suddenly emerged. All of a sudden, the highest most prestigious court in the land, for the first time in history, is under the gun as never before. The Lower House wanted the ‘crown’ removed, the institution decapitated.

 

Here is an inventory of eight major accusations (there may be more) against Corona and the Supreme Court that have come out of the press right after the Lower House impeached Corona by an overwhelming 188 signatures, when only 94 or one third were needed.

 

First is “betraying the public trust because of a track record of bias and partiality in cases involving former President Arroyo”. Second is “culpable violation of the Constitution when he failed to disclose his statement of assets, liabilities and net worth”. Third is violation of the Charter “in allowing the Supreme Court to act on mere letters filed by a counsel (thereby) creating an excessive entanglement with Mrs. Arroyo through her appointment of his wife to office; and in discussing with litigants regarding cases pendind before the Supreme Court”.

 

Fourth is “manifesting partiality in the grant of a temporary restraining order ‘in favor’ of Mrs. Arroyo and her husband ‘to give them an opportunity to escape prosecution and to frustrate the ends of justice”. The accusation of ‘frustrating justice’ against a Justice is a very serious matter and has deep implications on the situation of our present jurisprudence.

 

Fifth is a graft and corruption charge of “failing and refusing to account for the Judiciary Development Fund and Special Allowance for the Judiciary colletions, (using) public funds for his own personal purposes”. Sixth is the SC order “issued against the House when the latter was in the process of impeaching Gutierrez”. Seventh is reversal of “decisions on the conversion of 16 towns into cities, and Dinagat Island into a province”. Eighth is the SC “paving the way for the creation of the second district of Camarines Sur to accommodate Mrs. Arroyou’s son Dato”. (Source – Philippine Star).

 

Corona has several options. Option 1 is to fight it out in the Senate and in the Supreme Court itself. But if the judges are being judged, if the Justices are being accused of injustice, the Supreme Court is no longer a court but a ‘defendant’. The result of Option 1 may be more worms coming out, bigger and uglier than ever. Option 1 is actually a damage control move on the part of Corona etal, that may boomerang. In the hope of saving his name and that of the Supreme Court, Corona may lose it more.

 

This may force Corona to seek Option 2, which is what Guttierez took. Rather than face the snake pit of an angry Senate, Gutierrez chose to resign. It was a good move. The war was over and forgotten. Guttierez retreated, licking her wounds, but it was better than getting more wounds. Guttierez buckled down. Corona may begin counting the pros and antis in the Senate before he makes a move, but at this stage, it is better he does not. There are unpredictable things that may happen against his favor. If he takes Option 1, we may be headed for a Constitutional crisis. If Corona takes Option 2, the war is over, or oops, half over. Resignation is a cultural thing. Filipinos will fight it out to the last breath. If Corona were Japanese, he perhaps may have resigned long time ago.

 

The other half is the credibility of the Supreme Court itself to make future decisions. With Corona out, the other eight GMA appointees are necessarily next in line. This is an all or nothing war. No stone shall be left unturned. Those Judges who participated in decisions which are being questioned in the impeachment, if applicable to them, are culpable. It is also better they take Option 2 and resign.

 

It depends however, who voted for what in every accusation. It is possible that a GMA appointee did not agree with the questionable decisions of the other Judges. There has to be a meticulous investigation of questionable decisions the Supreme Court have made.

 

At the core of the controversy is a weakness in our jurisprudence. The executive branch must never appoint people in the judicial branch because they become beholden to the demands of the former. Even if it is more complex, the legislative branch is the better ‘appointer’ as this is a bloc rather than a person. It is harder to be beholden to a bloc than to a person. It so happened many Justices retired during GMA’s time. So there were 8 GMA appointees in the judicial branch, a very dangerous situation which has lead to the present war, which may escalate into a crisis of government, if Corona etal insist in fighting it out.

 

The retort of the accused and their supporters of the impeachment being a ‘destabilization’ move is being pooh-poohed by the general public which is getting angrier and angrier everyday. Lagman’s “mother of all blackmails” is empty rhetoric of a statesman if you put it side by side with the serious legal tone of accusations, for which solons say the have a ton of evidence.

 

The solons supporting Corona met but suddenly fizzled out. Is this because they realize they are running into a blank wall, with all the serious accusations on hand? Or are they scared of opposing public sentiments as they may dramatically lose constituents? When the chips are down, it seems Corona will be in the losing end, even if he is not impeached by the Senate. The stigma will forever be there, not only for him but for the rest of the other Justices who participated in his decisions.

 

 

 

redgate77@gmail.com

 

article 9

 

ANTI-MARIAN ATTACKS ON FATIMA THIRD SECRET

Email deceptions and misinformation

Marian interventions against disasters

Can prayers avert World War III?

 

Email Deceptions and Misinformation

 

It is strange how the Third Secret of Fatima is today surrounded by deceptions and attacks from anti-Marians who undermine its true message. For example, a History Channel documentary claimed that part of the Third Secret is still secret, that only 25 of the 62 lines of the original manuscript was revealed. This is not true. If you look at the official Vatican website, you will see all 62 lines. Click the link below and see for yourself.

http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20000626_message-fatima_en.html

 

Continued

 

The anti-Marians say that praying to Our Lady is a form of idolatry, an ‘abomination’. The reply of Marian devotees is simple – we pray to Our Lady not as a God, but as a human bridge to God.

 

An email letter, which has been circulating many times over for years, says only blessed candles can be lit during the three days of darkness. Neither blessed candles nor the three days of darkness are mentioned in the original Fatima messages. The apparent intent was to distract us and make us focus on external rituals so that we forget the essence of the message, namely, a return to the Lord, which will save us from calamity, not the lighting of candles.

 

The misleading email is littered with a complex set of quotes and sub-quotes until you can no longer distinguish what Our Lady is saying and what the anonymous author is adding. It is an ingenious subtle form of deception. It speaks of ”a great earthquake ten minutes before midnight going for eight hours and will tilt the earth’s axis 23 degrees”. There are no such exact scientific data in the Third Secret.

 

The email says, “once (God’s punishment) has started, you should not look outside under any circumstance!!!!”. The intent is to instill the wrong kind of fear, fear of penalty for transgressing a meaningless rule. True fear of the Lord involves prayer and good deed.

 

The original Third Secret transcript does not speak so much of hellfire and brimstone, as many think. The most doomsay text that visionary Sister Lucia wrote goes, “We saw an Angel with a flaming sword in his left hand; flashing, it gave out flames that looked as though they would set the world on fire; but they died out in contact with the splendour that Our Lady radiated towards him from her right hand: pointing to the earth with his right hand, the Angel cried out in a loud voice: ‘Penance, Penance, Penance!’.” This passage explains that Marian intervention can save the world from disasters, but ony through constant penance.

 

Marian Interventions against disasters

 

According to Vatican Fatima scholars in the Vatican, there have been three such Marian interventions on potential disasters. The first was the Cuban crisis in 1961, the closest mankind had to a nuclear confrontation. The second was the two averted attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II, circa 1981. The Third Secret referred to a “bishop in white”, whom Sister Lucia later would say was Pope John Paul II, who would be saved from assassination. Archbishop Emeritus of Vercelli Tarcisio Bertone, SDB, later reported that the Pope was saved by ”a Mother’s hand that guided the bullet’s path”. The Pope later gave the bullet to the Bishop of Leiria-Fatima who placed it in the crown of Our Lady of Fatima. Anti-Marians argue that there were no such Marian interventions. Events simply happened. The belief in Marian interventions is a matter of faith. No one is obliged to believe.

 

About half a dozen Popes since 1917 refused to reveal the Third Secret for more than 8 decades. Pope John Paul II, the first non-Italian Pope for centuries, known as the ‘Fatima Pope’, finally revealed it in 2002. It seemed that the many Popes kept the message secret not in fear of sowing panic but because of the “bishop dressed in white”, a Pope who would be slain.

 

In 1981, Pope John Paul II consecrated Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, which was Our Lady’s request in one of her earlier Fatima messages as a precondition for world peace. After that, for the first time, a Russian leader, Gorbachev, visited the papacy, where he was touched by his dialogue with Pope John Paul II.

 

Three important events ensued. First, Gorbachev instituted détente as a unilateral policy towards establishing peace with the West. This led to the eventual break up of the Russian empire, and the end of the cold war. Second, Gorbachev opened up the churches in Russia and ended decades of suppression of the Church. Third, the break up of the Berlin Wall in 1989 signaled the last of many events easing tensions between the US and Russia. All these were considered by Fatima scholars as a Marian intervention against wars.

 

Can Prayers Avert World War III?

 

In the theology of sin and punishment, prophecies have an big ‘if’. They are premised on the fact that Man fails to return to the Lord. If he returns to the Lord, then grim prophecies can be reversed or deferred. For example, the Lord told the prophet Jonah to tell that the people of Nineveh that the city would be destroyed, if they would not repent. The affluent trade city of Nineveh was the New York City of biblical times. Nineveh returned to the Lord and was spared. This was the opposite in Sodom and Gomorrah.  The Lord said, if there was but one holy person remaining, he would spare the twin cities. There was none. He destroyed them in fulfillment of the prophecy.

 

The Fatima First Secret describes a vision of hell to scare us to the urgency for prayer and conversion, according to Sister Lucia. Our Lady says, “You have seen hell where the souls of poor sinners go. To save them, God wishes to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart. If what I say to you is done, many souls will be saved and there will be peace. The war is going to end (World War I); but if people do not cease offending God, a worse one (World War II) will break out during the Pontificate of Pius XI.” It seems there were no Marian interventions in the two world wars, perhaps because there was no return of Man to the Lord.

 

Is God ready to strike as in Sodom and Gomorrah or ready to forgive as in Nineveh? In my personal experience, as I prayed with Sister Eva at the home of a visionary of Our Lady of Grace and Peace in San Francisco del Monte, she went into a sudden trance and convulsion. Instantly, her voice changed to a deeper tone, and said “I can no longer hold off the hand of my Son. Pray, pray, pray.”

 

The increasing frequency and intensity of disasters lately tend to point to the God of wrath overwhelming the God of mercy – Katrina, Irene, mega-tsunamis in Japan and Jakarta, mega-earthquakes in Peru and China, floods and forest fires everywhere, powerful weather disturbances due to climate change, and so on.

 

One such disaster was 9-11. God can actually permit evil to reign because we ignore Him. The similarity of the twin towers of New York to the twin towers of Babylon is awesome. They are both twin towers. They both represent the sin of pride, the arrogance of man believing he does not need God. 9-11 is more than just a crime by terrorist enemies. It is a message for us to return to God.

 

Today, Iran-Syria-Israel or Pakistan-India are easily the core of a new powderkeg that may evolve into a possible World War III. All that is needed is a small short fuse, when all of us are asleep. Can we still avert disasters? Can we still invoke Marian intervention through prayers and penance? Can Our Lady still hold off the Angel of Fire and the hand of her Son? Or are we hopelessly now in the era of the ‘end times’? It is up to all of us. Only Mankind’s actions can change the big ‘if’.

 

“Return to me with your whole heart, with fasting weeping and mourning. Rend your hearts not your garments. Return to me your Lord your God. For gracious and merciful am I, slow to anger, rich in kindness, relenting in punishment.” (Joel 2:12-13).

 

**********************************************************************

APPENDIX – HEALING MINISTRY’S COMPLETE LIBRARY

**********************************************************************

 

Browse thru the ministry’s extensive archives

of inspirational materials – Powerpoints, Youtubes,

prayer poems, meditation posters,  anecdotes.

Save this link for future readings.

 

http://www.sisterraquel.com/2010/04/archive00-entire-ministry-library/

 

The Lord Heals in Cyberspace

amdg