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==[[Sorsogon News]]==
==[[Sorsogon News]]==
'''2 drown in Sorsogon amid rains'''
'''Seek Enlightenment, Bishop Urges President'''
*Source: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/166367/2-drown-in-sorsogon-amid-rains
*Source: http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/355479/seek-enlightenment-bishop-urges-president
*1:46 am | Saturday, March 24th, 2012
*March 27, 2012, 12:48am
:by  Mar Arguelles, Inquirer Southern Luzon
:by  LESLIE ANN G. AQUINO






LEGAZPI CITY—Two people died in separate drowning incidents on Wednesday and Thursday in Sorsogon amid heavy rains in Bicol, the Office of Civil Defense in Bicol said Friday.
Manila, Philippines - President Benigno S. Aquino III has been advised by an official of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) to go on retreat this coming Holy Week for him to be “enlightened.”
Bernardo Alejandro, Bicol OCD director, identified the victims as Jomar Gordolo, 19, of Barangay Obrero in Bulan town, and Aida Fusana, 61, of Barangay San Francisco in Bulusan town.
 
Alejandro said Gordolo was swimming with his friend at around 3:10 p.m. Wednesday at Sabang Beach when he suffered muscle cramps and was carried away by strong sea currents  and drowned.
Sorsogon Bishop Arturo Bastes, member of the CBCP Permanent Council, advised the Chief Executive, following a report that Aquino and his Cabinet’s annual Lenten retreat has been scrapped due to their busy working schedules.
The town’s search and rescue team recovered Gordolo’s body and brought it to the Pantaleon Gutladera Memorial  Hospital in the town on the same day but was pronounced dead on arrival by attending physicians.
 
Fusana drowned while trying to cross a flooded spillway in their village at 7:15 p.m. on Thursday, said Alejandro.
Catholics will mark the start of the observance of Holy Week on April 1, Palm Sunday.
Rains also triggered a landslide at Barangay G. del Pilar in Bulan on Thursday burying in a mudflow a house owned by a village councilman, Alejandro said.
 
No casualty was reported, he said.
Deputy Presidential Spokesperson Abigail Valte said the President and Cabinet members are likely to hold separately their Lenten recollections this year since the Chief Executive is set to travel to Cambodia for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit early this month.
A low pressure area forecast east of Puerto Princesa City in Palawan brought low to moderate rainfall in Albay and Sorsogon over the past four days, according to the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration.
 
“He should take time to be with the Lord especially this Holy Week so that he will get more enlightenment,” said Bastes over Church-run Radyo Veritas yesterday.
 
“They should not only rely on their intelligence or prudence, but as leaders of the nation, they have to ask the guidance of the Holy Spirit to enlighten their minds because it is not easy to govern the Philippines,” he added.
 
Bastes said there is no reason for the President and his Cabinet not to go on retreat since they can do it even after the Holy Week.
 
“If he can't do it during Holy Week, he can do it after Easter, because Easter is also a time for rejoicing as Our Lord has risen. It is also a symbol that our people will be raised from the dead through our leaders who must understand the meaning of the resurrection,“ he said.


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