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Find your Prakrti, and purusha, prajna, moksha, niyama, kaivalya, at zeuswriting and free your soul mind and body. The Pope! An amazing visit to the Philippines in January 2015 drew a record six million people in rain-swept Philippine capital on January 18, to celebrate mass, which brings an end to a triumphant finale to an Asian tour in which he championed the plight of the poor.
Filipinos are famous for practicing a passionate brand of Catholicism and they turned out in a celebratory mood that defied the gloomy skies, determined to see the charismatic 78-year-old pope.
The millions singing and cheering, which saw one of the world’s biggest outpourings of papal devotion. Pope Francis made an exhilarating entrance to a Manila bay side park for the mass aboard a “popemobile” that was styled after the nation’s iconic, flamboyant and much-loved “jeepney” minibus.
Dressed in a plastic yellow poncho, he waved and smiled to wildly cheering crowds, stopping repeatedly so he could lean over barriers and kiss babies, before reaching the sea of believers at Rizal Park. The crowd was so large that even the pope was stunned at the size as he looked out from the stage as rain droplets descended.
“I cannot fathom the faith of the simple people,” he said, according to the Archbishop of Manila, Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, who acted as the pontiff’s chaperone. It’s a scene to behold, people as far as the eyes can see with umbrellas and ponchos of every colors standing still in the rain, many are wiping tears from their eyes.
Kristine Bancure, a volunteer rescue worker said “It’s an overwhelming feeling. I felt the hair on my skin standing up.” Perla Ponce, 76, a retired nurse traveled hundreds of kilometers from her home in the southern Philippines, for the mass said she felt “euphoric” “You can’t describe the feeling. It’s just like you have met Jesus Christ himself.”
The Philippines is the foremost Catholic country in Asia. This is itself a special gift of God, a blessing,” he told the vast crowd. But it is also a vacation. Filipinos are called to be outstanding missionaries of the faith.” He also spoke out against “poverty, ignorance and corruption,” a theme he has focused on repeatedly during his five-day visit to the Philippines.
The pope lectured the nation’s politicians to show integrity and end “scandalous social inequalities.” The pope said his main reason for visiting the Philippines was to meet survivors of Super Typhoon Haiyan, the strongest storm ever recorded on land which claimed more than 7,350 lives in November 2013. He flew on Saturday, January 17, from Manila to Leyte island, ground zero for the typhoon. “Long live the pope!” the crowd chanted before mass. ….Appreciates you. …_END_.