Thursday, August 27, 2009

EL STO. ROSARIO – ESPERANZA DE PAZ

Por Ronquillo C. Tolentino

Para un hombre que tiene fe in Dios, para una; nacion que aborrece la amenaza de una guerra mundial, la esperanza de paz no esta del todo perdida. Pero para los que no tienen ideales y valores morales, para las naciones que abogan por argumentos al baculo, caos y amenazas, esta esperanza esta casi fuera de su alcance. La perversion de la moral y de la razon socava material y espiritualmente al hombre, a la sociedad, a la nacion. A pesar de la vileza y fealdad de estos principios hay todavia muchas naciones que se adhieren a allos,
La amenaza constant de la Guerra mundial y la ola ascendiente del crimen
Pueden ser detenidas por una sarte de perlas – el Santo Rosario. Este es un medio oficaz para obtener la paz y armonia entre los hombres. Es la sustancia de la Redencion, la influencia saludable que ha salyado a muchas naciones en el pasado y que aun puede ser ancora de salvacion para muchas mas.

La oracion constant del Santo Rosario, la practica de las lecciones y de las virtudes que ensena desharan el odio, la verganza, la duda, la sospecha y la desesperacion, que son las raices de los males que afligen al hombre. En su lugar Habra seguridad y felicidad de vida. Y una vez mas reinaran la fe, la esperanza, la caridad, y su fruto, la paz en los corazones del hombre.

*ATTY. RONQUILLO CONANAN TOLENTINO is a lawyer-journalist. “Kel” as he is fondly called by friends, associates and acquaintances in the province of Aklan is an elective member of the provincial legislative body (Sangguniang Panlalawigan) of Aklan. With the said body, he chairs the highest committee: laws, rules and ordinances. He also chairs the provincial committee on education, culture, science and technology. He had been former president of the Aklan Jaycees, Aklan Press & Radio Club, United Way, of Aklan Integrated Bar of the Philippines – Aklan Chapter and Aklan College Alumni Association. He chairs the Aklan Council of the Boy Scouts of the Philippines, Citizens Drugwatch Foundation, Inc., Aklan Chapter and the Ben Hur Z. Mobo Move Aklan Forward Foundation, Inc. He is vice – chair of the Philippine National Red Cross –Aklan Chapter. Kel heads his own law firm – the Tolentino Law Office – and is columnist of various newspapers in Aklan and the Western Visayas region. He once headed the association of community journalists for Western Visayas and had served as national director for three consecutive terms of the Federation of Provincial Press Clubs of the Philippines. He had been editor – in – chief, editorial and legal consultant of various publications. Kel, at 57, together with author-publisher-journalist, Roman A. dela Cruz, are the remaining members of Aklan historians under the aegis of the Aklan History Society with the deceased Dr. Beato A. dela Cruz, Jose Jacinto Parco, Aklan first governor and lawyer Jose Raz Meñez, Kalibo mayor and judge Ludovico O. Peralta, Col. Emiliano Y. Fernandez and Dr. Federico R. Meñez. He was the society’s youngest member when it was formed in 1981. At the request of the late Mayolo Gonzales Torres. Kel’s work on a brief history of Aklan was published in the 1986 issue of the Ati-Atihan Review. This Spanish article saw print in the 1963 summer issue of the Aklan Collegian. This was reprinted in various regional newspapers.

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