www.byzcath.org Forums Faith & Christian Life Prayer Corazon Aquino, 1933-2009

Our former Philippine President, Corazon Aquino, has died.

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1914125,00.html

The whole world knows her for People Power. In addition, Cory Aquino was a devout Catholic who personally led the consecration of our country to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary on December 8, 1987, who never hid her sincere devotion to Our Lord Jesus and to Holy Mary, and who steadfastly defended the role of Christian principles of human life and morality in the formulation of laws. It is partly due to her that our country has an explicitly pro-life and pro-marriage Constitution.

May Jesus the Lover of Mankind have mercy on the soul of His servant Corazon Aquino. Eternal Memory, Eternal Memory, Eternal Memory!

President Aquino was truly a leader who stood up when her country needed courage, strength, and wisdom. May she be remembered by all the people throughout the world.

May the Lord welcome her into His kingdom.

Amen!
Stephanos I

AMEN!

...Here we would like to say a little about a special rosary she has had since the year 1986 when the People Power “revolution” (EDSA UNO) brought her to the presidency in an historic and unique way, -with “People Power as Prayer Power.”

In September of 1986, Jaime Cardinal Sin and then-Ambassador to the Vatican Mr. Howard Dee organized at Fatima in Portugal an International Theological Symposium on “the Alliance of the Hearts of Jesus and Mary,” with a number of outstanding European theologians participating. But the Cardinal took a day’s time-out during the meetings, to visit Sr. Lucia dos Santos, “the last seer of Fatima” at her Carmelite convent in Coimbra. –The Holy See (Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger’s office, in particular) had granted the privilege of the visit. Cardinal Sin went with Fr. Socrates Villegas. Sister Lucia, a member of the Carmelite community in Coimbra, was really happy to talk with the Cardinal. She had been told of the “People Power” events, and she assured the Cardinal that she and the other Sisters had prayed—prayed much—for our people’s peaceful liberation from the dictatorship. She seemed to be well informed about EDSA UNO.

Then Sr. Lucia did something the Cardinal did not expect. She took out a rosary which (she said) she herself made, bead by bead. She wanted Cardinal Sin to give it as her personal gift to Mrs. Aquino, and she said—somewhat surprisingly—“Tell her to take good care of it.” It was a promise of Our Lady’s blessing on President Cory during her presidency and beyond.

Let me now cite Mrs. Aquino herself: “Sister Lucia sent me this rosary which she herself made, with the message that I would be supported and protected in my presidency. She added, however, that more suffering would come my way. I now know that it was a prophetic message, as I had to fight back seven coup attempts to save my administration from power-grabbers in uniform. With Our Lady’s protection, I stood my ground and never left Malacañang, even when it was being attacked.”

We know that President Cory saw the seven coup attempts through, and finished her term, handing over the post to her duly elected successor, General Fidel Ramos, in 1992. The six years of her governance she constantly entrusted to the protection of Our Lady of Fatima, to Our Lady’s Immaculate Heart...
http://www.mariansolidarity.com/2009/05/13/sister-lucia-of-fatima-her-rosary-and-mrs-cory-aquino/

Eternal memory.

May she rest in peace!

Amado
(Was still there during EDSA I!)

Eternal Memory!

I remember her praying the "Hail Mary" when she was either elected to the presidency or the day she took office (sometime during the "People's Power Revolution" in the late 1980s. Wow!