Kaban ni D_BystandeR: HISGOT BAHIN NI SANTO PEDRO
Note:
I came across of a comment in PDI after reading a news item regarding the newly
declared St. Pedro Calungsod when that guy who called himself "123dudley" as his pen name
commented that Calungsod was a "murderer" and seemed to downplay his
remarkable personal attributes that made him a saint.
You
cannot in all honesty call Saint Pedro Calungsod a murderer who became a saint
unless you were inclined to say so with a hidden agenda to discredit his person
which is a grievous slander and a sacrilege. If you go over the phrase which says,
"He struck the suspect named Tumas with a machete and wounded him,"
but neither did it mention to have killed him. And besides, that native was
reported as among a group of those Chamorros, meaning natives of Guam, who
earlier attacked a co-worker of Calungsod named Joseph de Peralta purportedly
to steal his knives who was out in the woods alone looking for branches of a
tree to fashion them into a cross. Granting for the sake of argument he killed
that native just like in "hot
pursuit operation" where a police posse captured and killed the
"target" in the process, there is no crime of murder committed
because the act of killing was "in self-defense and in line of duty."
But
if we go further to other saints' life we will notice that St. Paul, before he
became a saint, was a ruthless man who persecuted the Christians of old. But he
got a miraculous transformation of himself when in one hectic and rigorous
campaign in search of Christians to be added to his long list of victims, he
was struck by a blinding light where God spoke to him and told him how he
viciously persecuted the Christians. It was due to such strange encounter with
God that abruptly he became a "changed" man and was instantly converted
to become one of God's fearless defender of His teachings and ultimately became
a saint. But St. Paul was never called a murderer.
(Bug-os ang pasalamat sa KAHAYAG ngadto sa nagsulat
niining paambit nga si JOHNNY LOVE. Nagtakuban siya sa
pangalan, "D_BystandeR".
Natawo siya sa Sugbo apan anaa na karon manimuyo sa Illinois sa tinipong
nasod sa Amerika. Ang kusog nga koneksyon sa kasayuran pinaagi sa internet
kanunayng naghaling sa iyang kadasig
pagtuki sa mga nagbukalbukal nga hisgutanan dinhi sa atong nataran. Usa
siya ka magsusulat nga gradwado sa kursong komersiyo padulong sa pagka accountant
sa University of San Carlos kaniadtong tuig 1961. Nahimo siyang miyembro sa usa ka hugpong sa
mga batan-ong magsusulat nga gitawag ug STUDENT PRESS. Nahimo usab siyang Associate Editor sa basahon USC-JPIAN sa tuig 1962-63. Magtatampo usab
siya isip magsusulat sa nasudnong magasin,
"Philippines Free Press" ug sa mga nag-unang peryodiko dinhi
sa dakbayan sa Sugbo sa lunhaw pa ang iyang pangedaron. Nahimo siyang mamumuo
sa usa ka pribadong kompaniya sa dakbayan sa Sugbo, ESCANO LINES, sulod sa
napulo ug duha (12) ka tuig dayon niyang
tapon ngadto sa NAPOCOR ug nahimong kawani sa kagamhanan sulod sa bayente dos (22) ka tuig. Niadtong
tunga-tungang bahin sa tuig 2000, nilalin siya ngadto sa tinipong nasod sa
Amerika ug sulod sa napulo (10) ka tuig, nagtrabaho siya sa buhatan sa kagamhanan sa nasod sama sa
UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE (USPS).
Karon sa pangedaron nga 67,
gihuptan gihapon niya ang walay pagkutat nga kadasig ug walay busganan
nga kaikag sa pagpaambit sa iyang nahuptang abilidad ug kabatid sa panulat. Dili niya mapugngan ang kaugalingon sa
pagpaambit sa iyang mga hunahuna labi na kon molambigit kini ug hisgotanan nga
makadani sa iyang mga mata.)
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