Cervantes

The NAMRIA, which is under the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, provides mapmaking services and acts as the government’s central mapping agency.

It started basing its vessels here in 2015 after BRPH Hizon and BRPH Palma were commissioned here on June 1 that year.

Jacalne said the infection among NAMRIA crewmen was traced to a crewman of BRP Ventura who returned for duty on April 5 after some time off in Antipolo City.

Antipolo, along with other areas in the socalled “NCR Plus bubble,” is still under the modified enhanced community quarantine (MECQ) status.

Jacalne said that on April 8, said crewmember underwent a reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test and came out positive, prompting the lockdown of all vessels for quarantine even as the ship crew did not show any Covid19 symptoms.

When one crewmember developed hypertension on April 12, he was brought to a hospital here and RT-PCR testing was required, and a saliva RT-PCR was then approved for the crew.

Jacalne said that subsequent results on April 13 showed that out of the 75 crewmen, 22 were positive. Another positive case came up on April 15 from the two pending results of the April 12 saliva test.

It might be recalled that a crewmember of BRPH Palma became the first Covid-19 case recorded in the Subic Freeport at the onset of the pandemic last year.

Said crewman tested positive on March 29, 2020 after visiting Mindoro on March 6 and falling ill upon his return to Subic three days later.

(Ric Sapnu)

uproar — confusion everywhere. I will renew the world with the sword, with fire and with water, with sudden deaths, and with contagious diseases. I will make new things. The nations will form a sort of tower of Babel; they will reach the point of being unable to understand one another; the peoples will revolt among themselves; they will no longer want kings. All will be humiliated, and peace will come only from Me. And if you hear them say ‘peace’, that will not be true, but apparent. Once I have purged everything, I will place my finger in a surprising way, and I will give the true Peace… "(End of quote.)

Also, the Holy Spirit communicated to mystic Maria Valtorta on the Feast of the Sacred Heart on June 12, 1953 as follows:

"On this same feast three years ago, when the war in Korea was about to break out, I already said how strongly disturbed and troubled is the Divine Justice toward all of Humanity for its way of acting. And I announced to you [Maria], that because of this, terrible chastisements would have descended upon the Earth. The facts: floods, cyclones [hurricanes], earthquakes with victims and disasters everywhere, have confirmed My statement. But today I repeat to you that Divine Justice is at the limit of its tolerance.

"Do not blame what is happening on anything else but the piling up of sins of every kind being committed always more on Earth. [They are] horrible sins against the Faith, the Church, good morals; unnamable vices— compared to which adultery is still a small thing; hatred and desire of death against the Church and the Priesthood;crimes, sacrileges in actions and words— and I could continue en d l essl y.

These things— and nothing else— are the cause of the misfortunes that have happened until now, and also of future [ misfortunes] , always more grievous, which will befall the Earth and Humanity because of the always more grievous faults committed.

".... And pray, and urge prayer, that this corruption of Humanity may cease, if one wants to avoid frightful catastrophes. I am Wisdom and Truth, and I know what is to happen."

But the Holy Spirit also assured Maria Valtorta of God's compassion and mercy to those who would turn to Him in difficult times.

On June 16, 1950, the Holy Spirit told Valtorta: ".... God will be compassionate and merciful with whom He wills. That is, with all those who, in their turn and with good will, want to be "sons of God", having welcomed the Christ with love, and followed and practiced the commandments and instructions of the divine Word.

"God draws good from all things, always. From the Fault of Adam, He drew the good of the Redemption— the measure of the divine Charity which is infinite and most perfect.

"He drew the confirmation of His infinite power, justice and goodness, from the stubbornness of Pharaoh toward the divine orders which Moses, His servant, transmitted to the Egyptian monarch.

Thus, through the plagues that struck Egypt, and through the killing of the first-born, and of the Egyptians in the Red Sea, Pharaoh knew that God is the Lord.

And the People of God also knew it, through those prodigies which confirmed them in their faith in the Only God, in their God.

"From the fault of Israel— the crucifier of His incarnate Word— God drew the blessed certainty of the Resurrection of the flesh and of the eternal Jerusalem, where the spirits of the just ascend, and where later the flesh of the just will be reunited to their spirits, for an eternal life of joy.

"From all, the Most Good draws good things. It is only necessary that man, with his good will, should know how to draw his good from all that God does.

How? By not rebelling, and by not estranging himself from his Heavenly Father, if His hand is heavy and His chalice bitter.

"You are sinners. All of you.

Even the best are imperfect. Jesus was innocent, holy, perfect. And yet the Father loaded upon Him the whole weight of the faults of men, so that it consumed Him on Golgotha.

And He presented to Jesus the bitterest chalice— more bitter than the bitterness of all that is disgusting: from the abandonment of His Father, to the suffering of His Mother; from the betrayal of a friend and apostle, to the cowardice of the other apostles; and from the denial of His Cephas, to the ingratitude of the people. Among men, no one has borne nor will bear the burden, nor will drink the chalice which crushed and embittered the Christ: the Innocent.

"Hence, know how to imitate Him— in His perfect good will, and in His most holy obedience— in order to draw your good from all that God permits to befall you, to test you and to reward you."