Requests for house blessing from these settlers in Barangay Taliptip, Bulakan, Bulacan, have thus risen, according to the parish priest serving areas in and around the future site of the country’s largest and most modern international airport.
The development came after SMC’s early completion of new houses and lots for and distribution of financial assistance to the former settlers from Taliptip, most of whom used to live in shanties exposed to the elements, even as the private fish ponds they used to work for had long closed down.
Some 16 new houses were blessed recently in barangays Sta. Ana, Bambang, Tibig, and San Nicolas and other nearby areas in Bulakan town, according to Fr. Ramon Garcia, parish priest of Nuestra Señora de Salambao Mission Parish in Obando.
Garcia, whose parish covers Taliptip, including Sitio Dapdap, Capol, Bunutan, Camansi, Kinse, and Pariahan, admitted that there has been an overwhelming number of requests for house blessing from former Taliptip residents but he has had to limit these due to restrictions brought on by the pandemic.
For the houses he has blessed so far, the priest said his key takeaway from new homeowners is their sense of gratitude.
This story is from the October 22, 2020 edition of The Philippine Star.
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