19/09/2025
๐๐๐๐ข๐๐ข๐๐ฅ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ญ๐๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ญ ๐จ๐ ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ ๐ง๐๐ฌ๐ข๐๐ง ๐๐ฎ๐๐ฅ๐ข๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐จ๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐ซ๐๐ง๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ญ๐ ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐
๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ฉ๐ข๐ง๐จ ๐ง๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฐ๐ง๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฉ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง
People branded as resilient risks being resilenced โ fed into the constant cycle of being mummed by systemic greed and injustice. The Agnesian Publication firmly stands with the Filipino people who refuse to be praised with the empty badge of resilience, but to be a breed whose survival means active resistance against the corrupt forces that dare plunder its nation.
In the past three years alone, โฑ1.2 trillion has been poured into flood control projects nationwide โ money meant to safeguard lives and protect communities. In the Bicol Region, 866 projects were funded with a staggering โฑ49.61 billion in contract costs. Yet year after year, floods still ravage homes, displace families, and claim lives.
For the past two decades, across four presidential terms, the same powerful contractors have controlled the largest public works projects, turning vital infrastructure into a lucrative monopoly. Recent investigations expose how some government officials demand 30% kickbacks from these contracts, bleeding public funds dry before a single drop of cement is poured. Worse, reports reveal a trail of โghostโ projects, substandard structures, and overpriced contracts across the country โ monuments not of protection, but of plunder. Each unfinished wall, each collapsing d**e, each vanished peso represents lives put at risk and a nation betrayed.
This is false stewardship โ a hollow claim of duty where no harvest is seen, where projects meant to safeguard lives turn into empty blueprints, and where โprogressโ becomes a tool to fatten the powerful while exposing the powerless to danger. This is not mere mismanagement but a desecration of Godโs mandate to care for creation and His people. Every peso plundered rips bread from the mouths of the hungry, every phantom project strips a roof from the homeless, and every careless approval becomes a death warrant when the next storm arrives.
As St. Agnes Academy, Inc. celebrates the Season of Creation this month of Stewardship, it calls the Agnesian community to embody St. Benedictโs teaching of Ora et Labora โ to let prayer ignite action and work become a force for justice. This teaching moves us beyond passive faith, urging us to rise against greed, corruption, and neglect, which poison creation and endanger lives. The Agnesian Publication echoes this enduring call to demand leaders who remain faithful to their duty as stewards of the nation and to their people.
Alongside church and civil society leaders at the frontlines, we support the Church Leaders Council for National Transformationโs Trillion Peso March on September 21โand every effort to confront injustice and demand accountability for the P1.2 trillion unlawfully pocketed funds of the people over the past three years.
We call on every Albayano to join the movement on September 21, starting 9:00 AM with a Holy Mass at the Redemptorist Chapel in Gogon, Legazpi City, followed by a Solidarity and Peace Walk to Kalayaan Park until 1:00 PM.
As a testament to true discipleship this Diocesan Year of Stewardship, we bear witness to a faith felt in streets that cry for justice. As we bear the cross of a wounded nation, we persist beneath its weight โ walking with civil society and the universal Church to actively denounce corruption as both a grave sin against God and mankind.