EDSA People Power Revolution

As All Souls Day approaches on November 2, Bishop Ruperto Santos of Antipolo Diocese has reminded Filipinos to honor and pray for their departed loved ones, emphasizing that the faithful should refrain from disturbing the dead and instead focus on offering prayers for their souls.

“EDSA was not a victory for one party and the defeat of another. It was not a triumph of one family vanquishing another. It was as the fulfillment of a promise, a particular instance of a triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary,” Bishop Dennis said.

Radio Veritas Asia was wiser to keep for posterity the Cardinal’s call to action and other broadcast tapes of the 1986 People Power Revolution in its archives.

Catholics observe October as the month of the Holy Rosary. October 7 is the Feast of Our Lady of Victory, now known as the “Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary. Saints and popes have recommended the praying of the "Holy Rosary as the weapon of our time,” as Saint Padre Pio has put it, in times of personal or family struggles, or national emergencies.