I attended a mass at the Aramco yesterday and noticed that in the reading of the prayer intentions, the priest mentioned the victims of the recent flooding in Manila. I was touched by the generosity of the parish but also questioned why the victims of the South Pacific Tsunami and the Indonesian Earthquake were not mentioned in the prayer intention.
Like Filipinos, the people of the South Pacific (particularly the Islands of Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga) and Indonesia also suffered mass devastation and they also need our prayers and aid. Was Indonesia left out because it’s a Muslim country?
In times of disasters, we’re all equal. Death could come knocking to anybody’s door. Hunger could strike to everyone. I understand that the Filipino’s resources are exhausted. We’re at the point where we could only do so much. However, if we have nothing else to give, we can still pray. And prayer is the only thing that our brothers in Indonesia and the South Pacific are asking. Let’s not be selfish and include them in our prayers.
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