Press Release
August 3, 2009

THANK YOU FOR THE GIFT OF HER LIFE
(Prayer in honor of the late President Cory Aquino offered by Senator Nene Pimentel at the opening session on August 3, 2009)

Dear Lord: What can we say in prayer to you today, our first session since the demise on August 1 of our beloved former President Cory Aquino? Our hearts are filled with the pangs of pain.

Our tongues are tied by the thongs of sorrow.

Our minds are weighed down by the misery of loss.

We beg of you, dear God, to replace those all - too human sentiments of sadness with the grace as a people to thank you for the gift of her life:

  • That led to the revival of democracy in our country when hope was all but gone.

  • That showed that courage does not necessarily consist alone of brandishing armalites at the enemies of the State but of faithfully standing up for the rights and the liberties of the oppressed.

  • That manifested an irrefutable rectitude in public and private service in the midst of so much sleaze in government and so much filth outside of it.

  • That demonstrated a resolute detachment from the enticements of power even as other less principled high officials ever hover above the centers of power as queen bees do inside honeycombs.

And

  • Finally for inspiring us to live our lives based upon the tripod virtues of faith, hope and love: faith in the Filipino, hope in God, and love for our people to give meaning to public service and substance to private work.

All this we ask in the name of Jesus, the Redeemer.

Amen.

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