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       After a long dry spell, I am truly happy that it's been raining for the past few days! The dry spell has brought a host of problems such as the low water levels at dams, power outages due to the reduced generating capacity of hydroelectric plants, cutback in the amount of water supplied to farms in Central Luzon and households in Metro Manila, and a series of fires in the metropolis. Eight municipalities of the province of La Union were declared under a state of calamity sometime last week and just recently, Ilocos Norte, Isabela and Cagayan were also placed under a state of calamity. On August 1, Manila Archbishop Gaudencio Cardinal Rosales yesterday urged the public to pray for rain to avert the crisis a protracted drought would bring.Rosales has issued an Oratio Imperata Ad Petendam Pluviam or Obligatory Prayer to Request for Rain and Intercessory Prayers for Rain to be prayed in all masses in the Archdiocese of Manila that started in August 3, a First Friday, which is the day devoted to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.In a circular to all parish priests, shrine rectors, chaplains and school directors, the Cardinal said that the crisis of lack of rain in what is already the rainy season calls for divine intervention. The Catholic dictionary says that an oratio imperata is “an ordered prayer for a special intention besides the ones prescribed by ritual that the Pope or the bishop of a diocese may require to be said at Mass.” Not for anything else but I sincerely hope that the rain lasts for a few more days to quench the thirst of the entire country especially the northern part of Luzon.
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