Cardinal Sin is dead

[tempest]

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To: Cardinal Sin. . .

Candle in the Wind

Goodbye RPs light
May you ever grow in our hearts.
You were the grace that placed itself
Where lives were torn apart.
You called out to our country,
And you whispered to those in pain.
Now you belong to heaven,
And the stars spell out your name.

And it seems to me you lived your life
Like a candle in the wind:
Never fading with the sunset
When the rain set in.
And your footsteps will always fall here,
Along RP'ss greenest hills;
Your candle's burned out long before
Your legend ever will.

Loveliness we've lost;
These empty days without your smile.
This torch we'll always carry
For our nation's golden child.
And even though we try,
The truth brings us to tears;
All our words cannot express
The joy you brought us through the years.

Goodbye RP's Light,
From a country lost without your soul,
Who'll miss the wings of your compassion
More than you'll ever know.

Goodbye cardinal Sin, we will sorely miss you.

[MrBiddle]

hala sure na muadto siya sa Heaven?

I mean what if wala niya na confess iyahang mga mortal sin? if naa makasa ning tawhana bisan ginagmay lang.
bitaw, sure na na Heaven ni siya padung?

buotan siya noh? murag Pope John Pauls

[arnoldsa]

hala sure na muadto siya sa Heaven?

I mean what if wala niya na confess iyahang mga mortal sin? if naa makasa ning tawhana bisan ginagmay lang.
bitaw, sure na na Heaven ni siya padung?

buotan siya noh? murag Pope John Pauls

yup only God knows...

[HoundedbyHeaven]

hala sure na muadto siya sa Heaven? I mean what if wala niya na confess iyahang mga mortal sin? if naa makasa ning tawhana bisan ginagmay lang. bitaw, sure na na Heaven ni siya padung? buotan siya noh? murag Pope John Pauls

Only God has the power to be absolutely certain who will join Him in Heaven, who will join Him later in Heaven and who will not. One unrepented sin can send a soul to Hell. The entire Church Militant on Earth can say, through faith, that this soul is in heaven if he or she is declared "Venerable".

[kyuusai]

hala sure na muadto siya sa Heaven? I mean what if wala niya na confess iyahang mga mortal sin? if naa makasa ning tawhana bisan ginagmay lang. bitaw, sure na na Heaven ni siya padung? buotan siya noh? murag Pope John Pauls

Only God has the power to be absolutely certain who will join Him in Heaven, who will join Him later in Heaven and who will not. One unrepented sin can send a soul to Hell. The entire Church Militant on Earth can say, through faith, that this soul is in heaven if he or she is declared "Venerable".

your right houndedbyheaven....

[giver_bert]

it is worthwhile to live and fight courageously for sacred ideals.. Cardinal Sin had lived up to this..

*sigh.. it was just months ago when i got the chance to have a picture taking with him..

[JoRed]

Personal Homage To Cardinal Sin
Prof. Jose Ma. Sison
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
Chief Political Consultant
June 22, 2005



The Filipino people will always cherish the outstanding role of Cardinal Sin in criticizing the human rights violations under the Marcos fascist dictatorship and in ultimately acting to help end this reign of terror and greed.


I never met Cardinal Sin personally. I was not able to visit him after I was released from military detention in 1986. But I knew him as a good priest and moral leader through close friends and relatives.


He began to take up the cause of the victims of human rights violations after Luis Jalandoni, Coni Ledesma and friends in the Christians for National Liberation arranged families of said victims and other people to plead for his active support and assistance in 1974.


He was close to my uncle, the late Archbishop of Nueva Segovia Juan Sison. They were often together on trips to Rome. After my arrest in 1977, Archbishop Sison sent my mother to him to request Cardinal Sin to intercede with Marcos to stop the tortures being applied on me.


When my mother asked him to officiate at the silver wedding anniversary of my brother Dr. Ramon C. Sison and his wife Rosario in 1984, Cardinal Sin suggested that he would like to baptize my son Jasm who had been born in the army prison hospital in Fort Bonifacio in 1981.


The Free Jose Maria Sison Committee decided to make the baptism a meaningful event of the united front. Friends of mine like Senator Lorenzo M.Tanada, my lawyers Juan T. David and Joker Arroyo and other prominent opponents of the fascist regime stood as godfathers of my son.


There was a time when Cardinal Sin encouraged Julie though my mother to visit him and discuss the situation of political prisoners. He was fond of trading jokes. Thus, a number of times Julie and I devised some jokes that we thought he would like to hear. In fact, he enjoyed them and asked to borrow some of them.


He was serious as a priest and once he proposed that he would seek my immediate freedom if I declared that I was not a communist. But he was not offended when I stood my own ground. Indeed, he was moved by the principle of the free conscience and the spirit of ecumenism.


I kept in touch with him even when we had obvious differences after the Aquino regime became consolidated. But later on, he would surprise the public a number of times during the regimes of Ramos and Estrada when he would declare that he communicated with me on some public issues and keeping mass actions peaceful in order to dispel military psywar that violence would erupt in the protest actions of the patriotic and progressive mass organizations.


Whenever mutual friends visited him, he conveyed to me warm greetings and encouragement to me as chief political consultant of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines in peace negotiations with the Government of the Republic of the Philippines. He often offered help to keep the peace negotiations going whenever there were obstacles.


The Filipino people will always remember and draw inspiration from the service and good works of Cardinal Sin. ###

[horhe1286]

Just this morning, His Eminence returned to his Creator. Just like Pope John Paul II, we will missy a man who made an impact in our society. We will never have a Cardinal like him. He stood for the truth, fought a dictatorial regime, and is instrumental in restoring democracy in our country.

To Cardinal Sin, you ran a good race. You fight a good fight. God Bless You Cardinal, and comngratulations for a job well done.

We will miss you.

-how sad-
-may time najud to niya-

[d`monyita]

what the....? resurrecting threads?
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