FRANCISCO S. TATAD
FRANCISCO S. TATAD

I WAS in Cebu on Sunday, celebrating with a couple of hundred other guests the 50th wedding anniversary of Dodong and Diane Limchua, servant leaders of the “Oasis of Love” Catholic community in the Visayas and Mindanao, when I first heard of the massacre of Ozamiz City Mayor Reyaldo Parojinog Sr. and 14 others in the hands of the Misamis Occidental police. The solemnity of the Holy Eucharist and the renewal of marriage vows at the San Pedro Calungsod chapel, with Archbishops Jose Palma of Cebu, Romulo de la Cruz of Zamboanga, John Du of Palo, and several other archbishops, bishops and priests from the Visayas and Mindanao concelebrating, and Monsignor John Thomas Limchua, the couple’s favorite nephew who is the First Secretary to the Papal Nuncio in Cairo, delivering a moving homily on faithfulness, prevented any hint of the story from casting a shadow on the celebration.

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