CBCP urges Filipinos to join ‘national healing march’ on Edsa
The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) is inviting Filipinos to join the one-kilometer procession on Nov. 5 to start another phase of mourning and prayers for the victims of extrajudicial killings (EJKs).
Filipinos are summoned to the candlelight procession which will start on the historic Edsa Shrine and end at the People Power Monument.
Lingayen-Dagupan Socrates Villegas, CBCP president, encouraged Filipinos to attend the Eucharistic Mass at the Edsa Shrine at 3 p.m., which will also be the launching of the 33-day period of national healing.
“This 33-day period will prepare us to make our act of consecration to the Immaculate Mother. We will call this 33-day period as the time to ‘Start the Healing’,” Villegas said in a statement.
“Within this 33-day period, we are requested to pray the rosary and receive Holy Communion, if possible every day, for the healing of our bleeding nation and for the peace of the souls of all those killed,” he added.
The CBCP announced Nov. 5 as the “Lord Heal our Land Sunday.”
The season of mourning and prayers for the victims of EJKs will also start on Nov. 5 until the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception on Dec. 8.
The CBCP is also appealing to priests who cannot go to EDSA Shrine to hold “Lord Heal our Land Sunday Masses” in their provinces on the same day.
The Catholic Church is still in the middle of its 40-day mourning and prayers, from Sept. 23 to Nov. 1, for the killings of Duterte administration’s war on drugs
The Edsa Shrine was the site of the four-day revolt, which toppled the dictatorship of the late Ferdinand Marcos. Ma. Agatha Nicole T. Fabricante