Photo by CBCP from CBCP News Facbook page - CBCP offers prayers for the newly elected officials
- CBCP President Socrates Villegas promises “vigilant collaboration” with the incoming admin
- The bishops reminded officials of their responsibility to the weakest and most distressed
The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) offered their message to candidates of the recently concluded 2016 national and local elections, assuring the winners of their prayers and consolation to those who did not make it.
“To those who have been voted to office, we assure them of our prayers, principally for wisdom, that they may discern God’s will for his people and courageously do as he bids. God’s hand is to be recognized in the events of history. Credit then your victory, neither to fame nor popularity, but to God,” said CBCP President and Lingayen Archbishop Socrates Villegas in a statement, earlier published by ABS-CBN News.
The Filipino bishops also reminded the newly-elected officials that they have a responsibility to serve and to care for “the weakest and the most distressed,” in particular, children, women, and indigenous people.
Villegas also offered words of consolation to those who did not win in the elections, emphasizing that there are so many other ways to serve the people, beyond clinching the positions they had aspired for.
“To those who did not succeed, you, as persons, as sons and daughters of God, are infinitely so much more than the positions after which you aspired,” he said.
Villegas also promised “vigilant collaboration” with the incoming administration in working for the good of all.
“The greatest promise the Church can offer any government is vigilant collaboration, and that offer we make now. We will urge our people to work with the government for the good of all, and we shall continue to be vigilant so that ever so often we may speak out to teach and to prophesy, to admonish and to correct—for this is our vocation,” he told the Inquirer.
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