BALANGA CITY – Archbishop Socrates “Soc” Villegas, lately Bishop of Balanga, on Friday advised all Filipino nurses to share every minute of their lives with others and be ready to die for them.
“Let your life be the life of your patients and if you do that, you have performed your sworn duty as nurses,” the former outspoken spokesman of the late Jaime Cardinal Sin said.
“Dapat lahat ng narses na naniniwala sa Diyos ay bayani at banal sapagka’t utang na loob ninyo ito sa bansa at sa Diyos na dapat ninyong mahalin,” he told more than 1,000 nurses in attendance at the Louis Restaurant in Balanga City.
Villegas who assumed as bishop of the Diocese of Balanga on May 3, 2004 wanted all Bataenos to be called “bayani at banal.”
He was named archbishop, reportedly the youngest in the country, by the Pope last month and will be formally installed as such in the Diocese of Lingayen-Dagupan in Pangasinan on November 4 this year. He will leave Balanga on November 2.
The new archbishop was guest of honor and speaker with Bataan Gov. Enrique Garcia at the 21st convention of the Pambansang Samahan ng mga Narses sa Pilipinas in Region 3 from Bataan, Bulacan, Pampanga, Tarlac, Nueva Ecija and Zambales. Nurses from Aurora province are still not members of the association.
The nurses’ gathering has for the theme “Bayaning Nurse Noon, Ngayon at Bukas Para sa Kadakilaan, Katapatan at Kabutihan Tungo sa Malusog na Sambayanan.”
The new archbishop regaled his audience with jokes throughout his speech. He even asked the nurses to choose from geometric figures square, triangle, octagon and circle that best represented them.
Many nurses, including most of their officers, chose “circle” while only a handful selected the three other figures that ended with loud laughs from the nurses. Those who chose “circle”, according to Villegas, are people extremely pre-occupied with sex.
Those who like “square” are intellectuals, “triangle” as conservative and “octagon” as undecisive but fond of seeking employment for abroad.
Benjamin Kinney, one of the officers of the Bataan Nurses Association, said some government hospitals are under-staffed because of alleged lack of funds. He said that there are many graduating as nurses but only to find out that there is no available position.
“Let your life be the life of your patients and if you do that, you have performed your sworn duty as nurses,” the former outspoken spokesman of the late Jaime Cardinal Sin said.
“Dapat lahat ng narses na naniniwala sa Diyos ay bayani at banal sapagka’t utang na loob ninyo ito sa bansa at sa Diyos na dapat ninyong mahalin,” he told more than 1,000 nurses in attendance at the Louis Restaurant in Balanga City.
Villegas who assumed as bishop of the Diocese of Balanga on May 3, 2004 wanted all Bataenos to be called “bayani at banal.”
He was named archbishop, reportedly the youngest in the country, by the Pope last month and will be formally installed as such in the Diocese of Lingayen-Dagupan in Pangasinan on November 4 this year. He will leave Balanga on November 2.
The new archbishop was guest of honor and speaker with Bataan Gov. Enrique Garcia at the 21st convention of the Pambansang Samahan ng mga Narses sa Pilipinas in Region 3 from Bataan, Bulacan, Pampanga, Tarlac, Nueva Ecija and Zambales. Nurses from Aurora province are still not members of the association.
The nurses’ gathering has for the theme “Bayaning Nurse Noon, Ngayon at Bukas Para sa Kadakilaan, Katapatan at Kabutihan Tungo sa Malusog na Sambayanan.”
The new archbishop regaled his audience with jokes throughout his speech. He even asked the nurses to choose from geometric figures square, triangle, octagon and circle that best represented them.
Many nurses, including most of their officers, chose “circle” while only a handful selected the three other figures that ended with loud laughs from the nurses. Those who chose “circle”, according to Villegas, are people extremely pre-occupied with sex.
Those who like “square” are intellectuals, “triangle” as conservative and “octagon” as undecisive but fond of seeking employment for abroad.
Benjamin Kinney, one of the officers of the Bataan Nurses Association, said some government hospitals are under-staffed because of alleged lack of funds. He said that there are many graduating as nurses but only to find out that there is no available position.
