The nation continues to thirst

There is a problem with water supply on top of impending food shortage, spiraling prices of prime commodities, rising inflation, worsening crimes and corruption. And our nation is poised to elect actors and boxers again to make national policies and craft laws to address the many "thirsts" our country is suffering from.

- Atty. Josephus B. Jimenez

Last Good Friday, I was assigned by the San Agustin Church to deliver the fifth of the Seven Last Words: ""I Thirst". It went well with the country's oldest stone church full of Catholic faithful. I needed to read the Gospel of St. John again to have a feel of the situation when Jesus cried: "I thirst". And I shared with churchgoers the many "thirsts" our people are suffering from today.

Today's column is dedicated to the more than 80 million Filipinos who belong to the poor sector in a country with so many millionaires. There is a national thirst for social justice.

It was a very hot mid-summer afternoon. The fluid in the body of Jesus was reaching its minimum. According to John 19:28 Jesus pleaded: "I thirst". Jesus was in a pitiful condition, exactly the same conditions as the Philippines today.