WALA DAW PASKO SA IGLESIA NI CRISTO, EH ANO ITO? by Atty. Marwil Llasos

Larawan ng Belen sa Pasugo, December 2009, p. 29

http://catholicdefender2000.blogspot.com/2012/04/on-holy-images-and-christmas-iglesia-ni.html


WALA DAW PASKO SA IGLESIA NI CRISTO, EH ANO ITO?

"Nalalapit na ang Pasko! ... Mamili hanggang maaga! ..." - Isang patalastas sa Pasugo

Mukhang mapapaaga ang PASKO dito sa blog ko. Paano kasi, nagkomento sa artikulo ko tungkol sa pagturing at pagtawag ng Iglesia ni Cristo (INC) ng “ama” sa nasirang si ERAÑO G. MANALO[1] si READ ME INC na isang (di-otorisadong) manananggol ng hidwang panananampalataya ng INC. Sa komento ni Read Me, mariing binanggit niya: “Ang doktrina sa amin, bawal ang pagdiriwang ng PASKO.”[2]

Pasugo, Nobiembre 1939, p. 26

Tama naman si Read Me. Bawal nga sa INC ang Pasko. Pero alam ba ninyo na pabago-bago ang aral ng INC tungkol diyan? Lumilitaw na hindi talaga sa Dios ang INC sapagkat salu-salungatan ang aral eh. Maliban diyan, dala-dalawa ang akala ng INC. Kunyari ayaw at galit sa Pasko; pero minsan naman hindi. Kaya nga po mahirap paniwalaan ang sektang ito sapagkat hindi tayo magagabayan nito sa kaligtasan bagkus ay sa kapahamakan. Sa Santiago 1:8, ganito ang ating mababasa:

“Ang taong may dalawang akala, ay walang tiyaga sa lahat ng kaniyang mga paglakad.”

"Araw-araw ay magiging Pasko lagi" - Paskong-pasko ang kulay ng selyo ng Iglesia ni Cristo

Bakit po natin nasabing may dalawang akala? Eh kasi sabi ni Read Me bawal sa INC ang Pasko. Tapos, mababasa natin sa Pasugo na may Pasko sa INC. Papalit-palit, paiba-iba at salu-salungatang pahayag at gawain ng INC. Tunghayan po natin ang mga sumusunod na larawan:

Ho ho ho!: Ano ang ginagawa ni Sta. Claus dito?

Kitang-kita sa larawan mula sa Pasugo ang pakikipagdiwang ng nasirang si Eraño G. Manalo at ang kanyang maybahay na si Gng. Tenny Manalo sa ika-25 anibersaryo ng kasal nina Teofilo Ramos at Paz Ramos. Bakit may Sta. Claus sa dingding? Ano ang ibig sabihin nito? Mantakin ninyo na ang Punong Tagapamahala mismo ng INC ay nakikipagdiwang sa isang okasyong may palamuti pamasko? Nagpabaya ba ang lider ng INC sa pagpapatupad ng aral ng INC na bawal ang Pasko? Dito nakikita ang kapaimbabawang ng INC. Muhing-muhi ang INC sa Pasko ng mga Katoliko pero dumadalo rin pala ang kanilang Punong Tagapamahala sa isang okasyon na may mga palamuting pamasko kagaya ni Sta. Claus.

Merry Christmas, Ka Erdie!!!

Ang okasyon ay anibersaryo mismo ng kasal ni Teofilo Ramos at ng kanyang asawa. Sino ba si Teofilo Ramos? Siya ay isang senior minister ng INC na naaralan mismo ng “sugo” ng INC na si Felix Manalo. Mataas ang kanyang katungkulan sa INC. Ngunit bakit sa anibersaryo ng kasal niya mismo ay may Sta. Claus at may pagbating “Merry Christmas.” Pansinin sa larawan sa itaas ang pagdalo ng matataas na pinuno ng INC: Eraño Manalo, Benjamin Santiago, Teofilo Ramos at Cipriano Sandoval. Pag pinuno pala, puwede; pag kaanib lang, bawal?

Pasko na naman ... Aginaldo po!!!

Sa larawan sa itaas na kuha sa Pasugo, makikita ang tula na may pamagat na “Ang Aking Pang-Aginaldo.” Akala ko ba walang Pasko sa INC, bakit may aginaldo?

Pansinin din sa tula ng INC na si Benjamin T. Villalba ang tahasang pagbanggit ng Pasko. Aniya –

“PASKO na naman … narito na ngayon –

Kaya naman kahi’t

Munting paghahandog … ay aking nilayon”

Maliban diyan, binabanggit din sa tula ang mga sumusunod?

“Ang diwa ng PASKO ay kapayapaan;

Nang mundong naglunoy sa lusak ng Buhay;

Mabuting balita sa kinalulugdan;

Pagsilang ni Jesus sa abang sabsaban.”

O, ayan! Di ba malinaw pa sa sikatan ng araw na may Pasko sa INC. Ano daw ang diwa ng Pasko? Kapayapaan. Mabuting Balita. Pagsilang ni Jesus sa abang sabsaban.

"... At may tatlong haring nagsidalaw ...": Ang tatlong hari ng INC

Talagang hindi dapat paniwalaan ang INC. Saksakan ng sinungaling! Doktrina daw nila na bawal ang Pasko. Bakit pinayagan ang mga ito na ilabas sa Pasugo? Tila yata ang Pasugo ay napasubo!

Ito ang wala sa Biblia!!!

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[1] http://bromarwilnllasos.blogspot.com/2012/02/iglesia-ni-cristo-itinuring-at-tinawag.html.

[2] http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5249487892866557785&postID=6511300600441876868.

Naungusan na ng blog na ito ang walang kalatuy-latoy na blog ni Read Me ng Iglesia ni Cristo

Prayer to protect Life of the Unborn

"Our Loving Father and Creator, grant your help and protection for each child in the womb of expectant mothers. May they receive from their mothers proper nourishment, love and acceptance as you will every child to be welcomed in this world. By the power of your Holy Spirit, enlighten mothers who are planning to have abortion. Many of them are just being pressured into doing it by people around them. Your Son Jesus Christ, O Lord, reminded us whatever we do to the least of our brothers and sisters, we do it unto you. Please help these confused mothers find support and care especially from their own families and relatives. Send them concerned friends and individuals who will counsel and dissuade them against committing a grave sin. We pray for the conversion of abortionists that they may stop killing the helpless unborn and turn to you for forgiveness. Inspire us always to defend life from its very beginning when it is conceived in the mother's womb until the time when you take it back to yourself. AMEN."

Source: Moments with God, pages 147-149

THE REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH BILL IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL by Atty. Marwil Llasos

THE REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH BILL IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL

Mary said "Yes" to Life: Our Lady of Guadalupe, Mother of Life, pray for the defeat of the RH Bill

The Reproductive Health Bill is Unconstitutional

            The Reproductive Health Bill (House Bill No. 4244) in its entirety is unconstitutional because its very premise is at war with the philosophy embodying the 1987 Constitution, dubbed as the Pro-Life Constitution.

            The RH Bill proponents hail it as a solution to poverty in our country. They insist that the RH Bill will spare children, especially those who are unwanted, from a life of poverty. The RH Bill will save mothers from emotional trauma brought about by child bearing. These arguments are not new. They were already discussed and voted on the floor of the 1986 Constitutional Commission. The result is the present Article II, Section 12 of the 1987 Philippine Constitution:

“Section 12. The State recognizes the sanctity of family life and shall protect and strengthen the family as a basic autonomous social institution. It shall equally protect the life of the mother and the life of the unborn from conception. The natural and primary right and duty of parents in the rearing of the youth for civic efficiency and the development of moral character shall receive the support of the Government.”

Constitutionalist Rev. Fr. Joaquin G. Bernas, S.J., in his annotation on the 1987 Philippine Constitution, expresses the sense of Article II, Section 12 that it “denies that the life of the unborn may be sacrificed merely to save the mother from emotional suffering or to spare the child from a life of poverty.”[1] The commonsensical and constitutional solution to the problem was stated by Fr. Bernas, thus: “The emotional trauma of a mother as well as the welfare of the child after birth can be attended through other means such as availing of the resources of welfare agencies.”[2]

Atty. Marwil N. Llasos reads "The 1987 Constitution of the Republic of the Philippines: A Commentary" by constitutionalist and member of the 1986 Constitutional Commission Rev. Fr. Joaquin G. Bernas, S.J.

What does Article II, Section 12 seek to achieve? Fr. Bernas answers that the provision was intended “primarily to prevent the state from adopting the doctrine in the United States Supreme Court decision of Roe v. Wade which liberalized abortion at the discretion of the mother any time during the first six months when it can be done without danger to the mother.”[3]

            Clearly, the provision constitutionally outlaws abortion. There’s no chance that abortion can ever be legal in this country as long as the 1987 Philippine Constitution stands.

Abortifacients kill human life!

But what about the RH Bill? Does it promote or facilitate abortion? The answer is a categorical Yes. While the RH Bill purports to recognize abortion as illegal and punishable by law [Sec. 3 (9)], it however mandates “[a]ll accredited health facilities [to] provide a full range of modern family planning methods” [Sec. 7]. Thus, the RH Bill is inconsistent as best, duplicitous and hypocritical at worst.

Atty. Marwil N. Llasos defends life and the Constitution under the gaze of Our Lady of Guadalupe, patroness of the unborn and patroness of the Philippines

While the RH Bill recognizes abortion as illegal, it nevertheless allows the use of the “full range of modern family planning methods.” The RH Bill does not specify or list what these methods are; hence, they could include the IUD (intra-uterine device), the morning-after pills,[4] and even manual vacuum aspirators[5] – all of which are known abortifacients!

Copper IUDs prevent fertilized eggs from implanting in the uterus.[6] Hormonal IUDs slow down the growth of the uterine lining thereby making it inhospitable for fertilized eggs.[7]

Prayer Power Rally Against the RH Bill on August 4, 2012 (1:00-7:00 P.M.)

Morning-after pills, otherwise known as Plan B pills, is described as “the backup plan for times when your birth control method has failed, has been forgotten, or you weren’t on any form of birth control, and you don’t want to get pregnant. Whether you’ve missed a few pills, the condom broke or slipped off, or you forgot to insert your diaphragm.”[8] The Plan B pill can be taken up to 72 hours after “unprotected sex.” But what happens within 72 hours? Is it possible that the sperm has already fertilized the egg? Yes. And what does Plan B do in that eventuality? “If the egg is already fertilized, it prevents the egg from attaching to the uterus” (implantation).[9]

Contraceptives promoted by the RH Bill

Manual vacuum aspirators cannot hide its pretense as a mere contraceptive. It is in fact an instrument of death – an early abortion machine.[10] Is this among the “full range of modern family planning methods” (Sec. 7) or the “full range of methods, facilities, services and supplies” (Sec. 4) sanctioned in the RH Bill? The Bill is deceptively and fearfully silent.

Plan B Pills prevents the fertilized egg from attaching to the uterus thus killing it

The above examples of contraceptives within the RH Bill package prevent the implantation of the fertilized ovum in the uterus. Where does the Constitution come in in this regard? The 1987 Philippine Constitution categorically, unmistakably and unequivocably commands the State to protect the unborn “from conception.” Fr. Joaquin Bernas comments that “[t]he unborn’s entitlement to protection begins “from conception,” that is, from the moment of conception.”[11] What is the Constitutional intent? Fr. Bernas expresses it: “The intention is to protect life from its beginning, and the assumption is that human life begins at conception and that conception takes place at fertilization.”[12] It is crystal clear that the constitutional definition of conception is fertilization, not implantation. Human life begins at fertilization; thus the fertilized ovum has human life and the State has the constitutional obligation to protect that life.

Instruments of death: Ipas machine vacuum aspirator

Fr. Bernas concludes that Article II, Section 13 of the 1987 Philippine Constitution “reflects the view that, in dealing with the protection of life, it is necessary to take the safer approach.”[13] The RH Bill militates against this constitutional mandate.

On August 7, 2012, when the members of the House of Representatives make a crucial decision on the RH Bill, they must be reminded of their oath “to uphold and defend the Constitution.” To vote in favor of this unconstitutional bill is a betrayal of their sacred oath and of the trust of the sovereign Filipino people.

The 1987 Philippine Constitution is a legacy of EDSA and CORY. We will go back to EDSA to remind the President to honor that legacy. It is the legacy of his mother that we want to preserve.

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[1] Rev. Fr. Joaquin G. Bernas, S.J., The 1987 Constitution of the Republic of the Philippines: A Commentary (Quezon City: Rex Bookstore, 2003) pp. 84-85.

[2] Ibid.

[3] Ibid.

[4] http://theplanbpill.com.

[5] http://contraception.about.com/od/unplannedpregnancy/p/MachineVacuum.htm.

[6] http://www.emedicinehealth.com/birth_control_intrauterine_devices_iuds/page2_em.htm#how_an_iud_works.

[7] http://www.emedicinehealth.com/birth_control_intrauterine_devices_iuds/page2_em.htm#how_an_iud_works.

[8] http://theplanbpill.com.

[9] http://theplanbpill.com.

[10] http://contraception.about.com/od/unplannedpregnancy/p/MachineVacuum.htm.

[11] Ibid.

[12] Ibid.

[13] Ibid.

"I came so that yo might have LIFE, and have it more ABUNDANTLY" (Jn. 10:10)

SUPPORT THE PRAYER POWER AGAINST RH BILL

Minorya sa Kamara, umatras na sa pagsuporta sa RH Bill

DZMM RADYO PATROL SAIS TRENTA 

Iniatras na ng minorya sa Kamara ang pagsuporta sa kontrobersyal na Reproductive Health (RH) Bill.

Ayon kay House Minority Leader Quezon Representative Danilo Suarez, walo na sa 28 miyembro ng minority bloc ang tuluyang tumalikod sa pagsuporta sa panukalang batas.

Binanggit din nito na nanindigan lamang ang monority bloc noon bilang suporta sa dati nilang lider na si Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman.

Dagdag pa ng kongresista, nagdesisyon ang kanilang hanay na unti-unti nang talikuran ang RH Bill matapos ang kanilang regular na pagpupulong ngayong araw.

Inaasahan ni Suarez na susunod na ang ibang miyembro ng minorya sa pagtalikod sa panukalang batas na sinuportahan naman ni Pangulong Noynoy Aquino sa kanyang State of the Nation Address (SONA). Report from Jon Ibañez, Radyo Patrol 35

                                                                                                            

GMA NETWORK/GMANEWS

ANDREO CALONZO, GMA News July 30, 2012 6:39pm

Six co-authors of the controversial reproductive health (RH) bill have expressed the intention to withdraw their support for the measure’s passage, the leader of the House opposition said Monday.

House Minority Leader Danilo Suarez said he and five other opposition lawmakers no longer wish to be co-authors of the RH bill a week before the lower chamber is set to put the measure to a crucial vote.
“Nagsabi sila sa meeting kaninang umaga na they are withdrawing support… We will just not vote, abstain during the voting,” he said in a phone interview.

Suarez declined to comment on whether the Catholic Church’s opposition to the RH bill affected some of his colleagues' stand on the measure.

The five other opposition House members who chose to withdraw their support for the RH bill were:

- Camarines Norte Rep. Elmer Panotes,

- Lanao del Sur Rep. Mohammad Hussein Pangandaman,

- AA-KASOSYO party-list Rep. Nasser Pangandaman,

- ALE party-list Rep. Catalina Bagasina, and

- Siquijor Rep. Orlando Fua.

None of the lawmakers was immediately available to explain their decision to withdraw support for the bill.

‘Thorough discussion’

The RH bill, formally known as House Bill 4244, has been undergoing debates at the House for more than a year now.

The measure, which as been identified by President Benigno Aquino III as a priority legislation, endorses the use of both natural and artificial modes of family planning.

The bill is being opposed by the Roman Catholic Church, which promotes only natural family planning methods.

Last week, the House leadership decided to put it to a vote on August 7 whether to continue plenary debates on the measure or not.

Suarez said that members of the minority believe that interpellations on the RH bill should continue.

“We think we should have a thorough discussion. Hindi naman ito bagay na puwedeng agad-agad ipasa. This is an issue of human rights,” he said. - BM, GMA News

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 ALLELUIA!

PATULOY TAYONG MANALANGIN MGA KAPATID!  NASA ATIN ANG POONG MAYKAPAL! GOD BLESS US ALL. JUNK RH BILL!

Statement of CBCP president Archbishop Jose S. Palma D.D. on RH Bill

 Statement of CBCP president Archbishop Jose S. Palma D.D. on RH Bill

Every birth is a gift from God; every new life, a blessing; every birth a cause for rejoicing and praising God who creates new life only out of love.

Our country’s positive birth rate and a population composed of mostly young people are the main players that fuel the economy. A fact that even the government itself acknowledges as it is determined to feed, educate and keep the young people healthy.

And rightly so, for even our Constitution acknowledges that human resource is a primary social and economic force.

Earlier this year, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas reported that the hard earned salaries of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) that were sent to their families for the first 11 months last year amounted to $18.3 billion, which is a 7.3 percent increase in the same period in 2010.

Filipino men and women who endure the travails of working on foreign soil play a significant role in propping up our economy.

The country’s robust population is a big boost to our economy, according to former US President Bill Clinton, local and international financial institutions and the public sector.

It is therefore quite disturbing when the country is told that having too many school children is a burden to the national budget.

Can we have enough of schooled, skilled, diligent and highly driven young people who are a driving force of economic progress?

The draconian population control policy of the Reproductive Health (RH) Bill would only curtail our economic growth. The problem of countries with former robust economies is the lack of young workers for their industries and inadequate support for their aging population.

The issue on maternal deaths is a serious concern. The solution does not lie in suppressing births as provided in the RH Bill.

Providing proper and adequate maternal care could be done without passing the RH bill, but by strengthening and improving access to existing medical services.

There is an ill portent for the nation when government does not look at its own population as a source of grace and blessing.

There is a grave reason to worry when government would rather suppress population through an RH bill instead of confronting the real causes of poverty.

+ JOSE S. PALMA, DD

Archbishop of Cebu

President, Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines

30 July 2012

CATHOLIC CHURCH ON MILITANT MODE AND PRAYERS AGAINST RH BILL!

ORATIO IMPERATA AGAINST THE PASSAGE OF RH BILL
AFCC is part of the "Alliance of FB Page and Group Administrators against RH Bill" We are also on 'militant mode' like our allies. We all pray and keep vigil together.
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“God, our loving Father, Creator and lover of all life,
You fashioned in your own image and likeness1 every human person.

We thank you for this gift and the freedom to appreciate it.
Grants us intense eagerness to recognize your image in every person so that respect for all human life becomes our way of life.

Give us also the strength and courage to defend and protect the right of all to live as you ordained, from conception to natural death.

We pray for your divine healing, comfort and peace for all affected by past abortions.

Grant them strength and the consolation of your presence.
Help us serve actively in alleviating the sufferings and troubles of all women with pregnancy problems.
Let your Spirit enlighten the minds and open the hearts
of those who do not yet fully respect all human life according to your will.

We pray for all our leaders and legislators who must deliberate assiduously on this critical present issue.
May they be guided by the grace of the Holy Spirit
to act responsibly for the good and well-being of all.
May their competence be always steered by humility and fear of the Lord. Mary, our loving Mother, to you we entrust the cause of life.

Grant that all who believe in your Son may proclaim the Gospel of Life with honesty and love to the people of our time.
We make our prayer through our Lord Jesus Christ your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, God, forever and ever. Amen.

Our Lady of Guadalupe, pray for us.
Saint Rosa of Lima, pray for us.
Saint Lorenzo Ruiz, pray for us."

NOTE:
The prayer was endorsed by the CBCP Permanent Council to the different arch/dioceses all over the country.

HELP AND SUPPORT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. PLACE "NO TO REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH BILL" PHOTO ON YOUR PRIMARY AND COVER PHOTO. PRAY FOR THE FORCES OF PRO-LIFE. PRAY SO THAT RH BILL WILL NOT BECOME A LAW. GOD BLESS US ALL!

FELIX MANALO, SINASAMBA NG INC

 

 

 

Maririnig ninyo ang sinabi ni Bro. Ryan Mejillano (CFD-Davao)  sa kanyang pagbasa ng PASUGO ng mga Iglesia ni Cristo patungkol sa sambahin at luwalhatiin si Manalo.(between 19:12-19:40)

"Nung isilang ang sinugo, nag simula siyang nag i-isa, na batbat sa pag sasara, si kapatid na Manalo, pangalan nya'y luwalatihin at sambahin." -Pasugo, May 1996, poem by Daniel Lapid Sr.