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“There is no money in public service. The only thing there is an opportunity to show that we are serving and loving the Lord and country,” he said during a gathering of the Jesus is Lord members at the Expo Pilipino’s amphitheater on Sunday.”
Highlighted in neon pink were those initial paragraphs of a computer-printed Inquirer.net piece headlined “Panlilio to return to priesthood in 2010” by Tonette Orejas “first posted 23:47:00 12/02/2008.”
So? I asked my seminary elder Don Luisito who showed me the copy over espresso at La Nilad in SM City Pampanga.
Your compadre is returning to the priesthood in 2010 because he did not find money in public service.
You’re implying there’s money in the priesthood.
He himself said it. If there’s no money, why is he returning?
To serve God and his people.
But did he not himself say he moved to a higher vocation, of serving the people when he joined politics, to the chagrin of his superiors and fellow priests?
Yes, but…
Here, read the lines again, “The only thing there,” meaning in politics, “is an opportunity to show that we are serving and loving the Lord and country.” So, if in his being governor he is already in the service of God and people, why would he still return to the priesthood to do the same thing.
Search me. Maybe, it’s his way of getting rid of Atty. Vivian Dabu without hurting her feelings. Of course, he would not need Dabu at the convento as he needs her now at the capitol or at the Clark staff house.
You’re not a baldy, stop being funny.
Corn aside, you’re missing the point Don Luisito. My compadre is just being true to his promise in the 2007 elections. Here, read: “I hold on to what I said then that I would only serve one term. I shall dispose myself to God, prepare our lay leaders to take on the challenge of public governance.”
Yeah, right, Panlilio is just keeping his election campaign promise as he kept his ordination vow of obedience when he defied the pleas and appeals of his bishop for him not to run in the elections. For all your criticism of your compadre, you’re still a firm believer in him, failing to see his true colors.
I am not color blind!
Yes, you are. You don’t see his being two-tone.
Now, now, that’s not only politically incorrect, that’s downright discrimination.
Bolang! (Fool!) I speak not of his epidermis but of his character. Panlilio is a study in dichotomy…
Careful with the words now, your classmate Ronnie Tiotuico who reads this column regularly will again crucify me in our materboni@yahoogroups.com as always sending him to the dictionary for the meaning of high-farting words used here.
Let Doc be. Dichotomy is intrinsic in Panlilio. He seems to be two-persons in-one…
You’re courting blasphemy there, one more and you make Panlilio a Trinitarian deity.
Bolang! No attempt at apotheosis there, maybe psychosis. Panlilio’s penchant for denying later what he himself said earlier is symptomatic of this. No, not really psychosis but the dichotomy in him. He said he would just be good for one term when he ran. Then, in his first 100 days in office, he said he would keep his options open for re-election or even running for higher office. From there, everything that has so far transpired around Panlilio fits snuggly into an I-said-it-then-I-deny-it-now matrix.
You’re being harsh to the governor.
No, I am stating a fact. So why do you think Panlilio can’t effect unity in Pampanga?
Why?
Panlilio is divided against himself. As the Good Book says, “a house divided against itself cannot stand,” so how can he?
But Panlilio is propped by Dabu.
Bolang!
