I AM ADOPTED – SIS. DONNA TARUN – 7AM TAGALOG SERVICE

1. I AM ADOPTED

2. I AM ADOPTED

3. AKO’Y INARING ANAK

4. EFESO 5:1–21
1 Dahil kayo’y mga anak na minamahal
ng Diyos,tularan ninyo Siya.
2 Mamuhay kayong puno ng pag-ibig tulad
ni Cristo; dahil sa Kanyang pag-ibig sa
atin, inialay Niya ang Kanyang buhay
bilang mabangong alay at handog sa
Diyos.

5. 3 Kayo’y mga hinirang ng Diyos, kaya’t
hindi dapat mabanggit man lamang na
kayo’y nakikiapid o gumagawa ng
anumang uri ng kahalayan o pag-iimbot.
4 Huwag din kayong gagamit ng anumang
malaswa o walang kabuluhang pananalita
at pagbibirong di nararapat, sa halip
magpasalamat kayo sa Diyos.
EPHESIANS 5:1–21

6. 5 Alam na ninyong walang bahagi sa kaharian
ni Cristo at ng Diyos ang taong nakikiapid,
mahalay, o sakim sapagkat ang kasakiman ay
isang uri ng pagsamba sa diyus-diyosan.
6 Huwag kayong padaya kaninuman sa
pamamagitan ng mga pangangatuwirang
walang kabuluhan, sapagkat dahil nga sa mga
ito, ang Diyos ay napopoot sa mga suwail.
EPHESIANS 5:1–21

7. 7 Kaya’t huwag na kayong makikisama sa
kanila.
8 Dati, kayo’y nasa kadiliman, ngunit ngayo’y
nasa kaliwanagan na, sapagkat kayo’y nasa
Panginoon. Mamuhay kayo ngayon nang
nararapat sa mga taong nasa liwanag.
9 Sapagkat pawang mabuti, matuwid at totoo
ang ginagawa ng namumuhay sa liwanag.
EPHESIANS 5:1–21

8. 10 Pag-aralan ninyo kung ano ang kalugud-
lugod sa Panginoon.
11 Huwag na kayong makikisama sa mga
taong gumagawa ng mga bagay na walang
ibinubungang kabutihan. Sa halip ay ibunyag
ninyo ang mga iyon.
12 Kahiya-hiyang mabanggit man lamang ang
mga bagay na iyon na ginagawa nila ng lihim.
EPHESIANS 5:1–21

9. 13 Ang lahat ng nalalantad sa liwanag ay
nakikilala talaga kung ano mga iyon,
14 at nalalantad ang lahat dahil sa
liwanag, kaya’t sinasabi, “Gumising ka,
ikaw na natutulog, bumangon ka mula sa
libingan, at liliwanagin ka ni Cristo.”
EPHESIANS 5:1–21

10. 15 Kaya’t mag-ingat kayo kung paano kayo
namumuhay. Mamuhay kayong tulad ng
matatalino at di tulad ng mga mangmang.
16Samantalahin niyo ang bawat
pagkakataon na kayo’y makagawa ng
mabuti sapagkat punung-puno ng
kasamaan ang daigdig ngayon.
EPHESIANS 5:1–21

11. 17 Huwag kayong maging hangal .
Unawain ninyo kung ano ang kalooban ng
Panginoon.
18 Huwag kayong maglalasing, sapagkat
mauuwi iyan sa magulong pamumuhay. Sa
halip ay dapat kayong mapuspos ng
Espiritu.
19 Mag-awitan kayo ng mga salmo, mga
himno, at mga awiting espiritwal;
EPHESIANS 5:1–21

12. buong puso kayong umawit at magpuri sa
Panginoon.
20 Lagi kayong magpasalamat sa Diyos na
ating Ama dahil sa lahat ng bagay, sa
pangalan ng ating Paninoong Jesu-Cristo.
21 Pasakop kayo sa isa’t isa bilang tanda
ng inyong paggalang kay Cristo.
EPHESIANS 5:1–21

13. BILANG ISANG
MANANAMPALATAYA,
TAYO AY INAASAHANG
MAMUHAY NG AYON
SA LIWANAG.

14. PAMUMUHAY SA LIWANAG
Tularan ang Diyos.
 Mamuhay ng puno ng pag-ibig.
 Pag-aralan kung ano ang
nakalulugod sa Diyos.
 Mamuhay ng matalino, hindi
mangmang.

15. PAMUMUHAY SA LIWANAG
Samantalahin ang paggawa ng mabuti.
Puspos ng Banal na Espiritu.
Buong pusong umawit at magpuri sa
Panginoon.
Laging magpasalamat sa Diyos.
Magpasakop sa isa’t isa tanda ng
paggalang kay Cristo.

16. 1. INARING ANAK
NG DIYOS AMA
Ang Diyos ay ating
Ama at tayo’y
kabahagi ng Kanyang
kaharian at
sambahayan.

17. 2. INARING ANAK
NA MAY BAGONG
PAGKAKILANLAN
Dati’y sa
kadiliman, ngayon
ay sa
kaliwanagan na.

18. 3. INARING ANAK
SA PAMAMAGITAN
NI JESU-CRISTO,
ANG PANGANAY
Tayo’y ginawang
kabahagi sa lahat
ng pagmamay-ari ni
Jesu-Cristo.

19. 4. INARING ANAK
UPANG SUMAMBA
Ang pagsamba ay
bunga ng pagkilos ng
Banal na Espiritu na
Siyang kasiguraduhan
ng ating pagkalipat sa
kaliwanagan.

20. MAY BAHAGI KA SA KAHARIAN AT SAMBAHAYAN
NG DIYOS:
PANANALANGIN
PAGBIBIGAY
PAGLILINGKOD

21. The Rohingya and the Port of Last Resort

22. We know our place in the world. We are the port
of last resort, and have little to offer the
Rohingya beyond a separate peace. Yet I write
this with pride, in the hope that there will
always be a cluster of islands southwest of the
Pacific, where no ship in need is called
unwanted.

23. THE UNWANTED. A Rohingya migrant eats food
dropped by a Thai army helicopter after he
jumped to collect the supplies at sea from a boat
drifting in Thai waters off the southern island of
Koh Lipe in the Andaman sea on May 14, 2015.
Photo by Christophe Archambault / AFP

24. They said there were knives and ropes. They said
there were riots over scraps. They said they were
stabbed and beaten, and that there were days
when their throats were so parched they drank
their own urine. Some of them were hanged,
others thrown overboard.

25. There was a risk of mass casualties, said aid
groups. Drifting boats were turning into floating
coffins. Ship decks were little more than a
confusion of shoulders, ribs, and bony
elbows. Rohingya refugees waved signs as navies
towed rickety boats out to sea. The crisis had
become a game of human Ping-Pong, with lives
in play as countries took turns slamming the
paddle.
There was a standoff, until early last week, when
news broke that the Philippines had offered
shelter to 3,000 boat people.

26. “The Philippines,” wrote The Telegraph, “has
offered refuge to the thousands of migrants who
have been stranded for months on boats after
being repeatedly rejected and towed back to sea
by Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia.”

27. Justice Secretary Leila de Lima announced that
refugees “cannot always be expected to obtain
travel documents particularly where the agent of
persecution is the state.” The United Nations
High Commission on Refugees saluted the
country’s "strong humanitarian tradition.” Post
after repost streamed down timelines, prefaced
with messages shared by aid workers and
international protection officers and the
occasional old friend from Australia.

28. There are some truths I know. The drowning
season will begin in June. The bribes will appear
before the campaigns roll. The malls will fill in
the sweaty noon, the clowns will dance with the
corrupt, and the ports will open for refugees,
wherever they are from.

29. The people nobody wanted
They are the Muslims of Northern Rakhine state, more
than a million strong, born in Myanmar with family
going back generations. They call themselves the
Rohingya.
Myanmar denies them even their name. They have,
instead, been called Bengalis, identified by Myanmar as
natives of a Bangladesh that disclaims them, marked as
foreigners and illegal immigrants, subject to abuse and
deportation.

30. The Rohingya have been called the most persecuted in
the world, a Muslim minority whose mosques were
burned by nationalists seeking "to protect Buddhism.”
Most have been denied citizenship and evicted from
their homes. Although they have been discriminated for
decades, ethnic violence came to a head in 2012 when
thousands of Arakan men, “armed with machetes,
swords, homemade guns, Molotov cocktails, and other
weapons descended upon and attacked Muslim
villages,” torching villages and killing residents.

31. It was, as Human Rights Watch called it, “a coordinated
campaign to forcibly relocate or remove the state’s
Muslims.”
An estimated 140,000 fled into refugee camps, where
conditions are difficult and food is scarce. Although they
have not been permitted to leave, The Economist
reported that in the first three months of 2015, 25,000
Rohingya, including those living on the borders of
Bangladesh, bought their way into boats in an attempt
to reach friendlier shores. At least 300 have died. Some
of those boats drifted into the waters of Indonesia,
Malaysia and Thailand – and forced the crisis that is
now testing the convictions of the international
community.

32. One boat in particular, abandoned by captain
and crew, packed with swollen-eyed passengers,
drifted into Thailand waters after an interception
off Langkawi and Penang islands by Malaysian
authorities. Passengers said they had been at sea
for over three months. The ship, said The New
York Times, “flew a tattered black flag on a
bamboo mast,” with the words, “We are
Myanmar Rohingya.”

33. The Thai navy repaired their engine, gave them
provisions, and pronounced them ready to
travel.
Thailand's Lt. Cmdr. Veerapong Nakprasit said
the navy had trained the passengers “to navigate
on their own,” adding that it was “so they can
reach their dream destination.”
For the Rohingya, the dream has
become anywhere but home.

34. In pursuit of the dream
In 2014, according to the UNHCR, 9 Rohingya
migrants were allowed into the Philippines "to be free
from fear that they're going to be sold again.“
"They were allowed to come into the Philippines while
their processing took place, and regained a few kilos,
regained their health, regained some dignity, and
proceeded onwards to reach their resettlement
countries," said Bernard Kerblat, country representative
of the UNHCR.

35. The Philippines was a temporary home, where
the Rohingya stayed 5 months “to recover.”
"What was needed at that time,” said Kerblat, “is
to find a sovereign state ready to accept them
even for a short time."

36. This is the Republic of the Philippines, pearl of
the orient, cradle of the brave, ringed by fire and
drowned by storm, where the disaster season
begins in July, lasts until Christmas, then staggers
into a rehabilitation period that ends when the
next typhoon decimates another province

37. Welcome to the last country outside the Vatican
without divorce, the third most dangerous
country for journalists, whose airport was
celebrated for rising to fourth worst instead of
first, whose road traffic maintains its place as the
ninth worst in the world. This is where a doctor
can be jailed for removing a fetus to save a
mother's life, where most live under the poverty
line, and where it is possible, if you know where
to go, to buy unmarked abortifacients in the
back alleys leading to the Church of the Black
Nazarene.

38. And yet, according to the UN, it is also the
country that in 2012 became “the first country in
the Asia-Pacific region to establish a procedure
to protect both refugees and stateless people."
Of the many and varied ways we define
ourselves, we are also a people who will open
our ports to the very desperate.

39. It is not the first time. On September 8, 1937, a
steamship named Gneisenaucarrying German
Jews escaping the Holocaust arrived in Manila, and was
given official welcome by the Quezon government.
World War II did not just bring in more Jews, but also
Chinese refugees and residents of the British colony of
Hong Kong. The Philippines remained open to refugees
until December 8, 1941 – the day the Japanese arrived
with their bayonets and burned cities to the ground.
"We would not be alive today if not for the Philippines,”
said 84-year-old Lotte Hershfield. “We would've been
destroyed in the crematorium."

40. In 1949, the International Refugee Organization
made an appeal to the international community
for safe refuge on behalf of thousands of White
Russians whose lives were endangered by civil
war after the Bolshevik Revolution. Only one
country offered protection – the Philippines,
whose government granted temporary shelter to
an estimated 6,000 Russians in the former naval
base of Tubabao Island in Guiuan, Eastern Samar.

41. In 1975, the mounting massacres by the Khmer
Rouge in Cambodia as well as threats from
Vietnam’s new communist government sent
thousands of refugees into exile. Many were
provided with food, shelter and education by the
Philippine Refugee Processing Center.
In the 20 years the center was in service,
over 400,000 Indochina refugees passed through
its doors.

42. 'We will take him home'
I write this in an attempt to understand, if only
for myself, what seems to be a national impulse
in a country that can barely support its own. It is
a compulsion we have rarely questioned, but is
now thrown into sharp relief by the crisis in the
Andaman Sea.

43. There is no easy explanation. It may be little
more than the practicality of living in an
archipelago with porous borders. Or it could be
another inheritance from the American
occupation, much the same as free speech,
secular governance and a great and abiding love
for imported spam.

44. And yet it’s difficult to believe all this is nothing
more than a result of habit and circumstance. It
is the same impulse that has a barber who lost
his shop in a typhoon offering jobs to the two
barbers who lost their homes. It is an impulse
that lives in the aftermath of disaster – the
widow and her children surviving on looted
goods dropped off by tattooed men, the
father wrapping the corpse of his neighbor’s
daughter just after he lost his wife, the displaced
mother insisting on feeding journalists out of her
meager store.

45. In 2012, after Typhoon Pablo ripped through
Compostela Valley, I was sent to New Bataan to
cover the survivors. It was 5 days after the storm,
and the evacuation center smelled of sweat and
corpses. I remember a woman in her late fifties,
a grandmother who had travelled 8 hours by
jeep with her miner husband. They had come for
their daughter, and were told she was dead.
Their two grandchildren had survived.

46. They were all going home, she said, to the house
near the mines where the children would be
raised as their own.
Her husband walked in, trailing a 9-year-old boy.
The boy was an orphan, said the miner, and had
been snatched by a neighbor from the
flashfloods in time to see his parents and older
brother drown.
If no one claimed the boy, said the old man, they
would bring him home.

47. The port of last resort
Today, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand have
committed to the rescue of what may be
thousands of refugees still at sea. Indonesia and
Malaysia have already offered temporary refuge.
A number of countries, including the United
States, have promised resettlement assistance.

48. “It may be conceivable,” said the UNHCR’s
Kerblat, “that the reiteration of the government
of the Philippines to uphold their commitment to
asylum may have contributed to encourage
other member states to positively reconsider
their position.” HRW Deputy Director for
Asia Phelim Kine offered the same thought,
calling the Philippines’ initial offer of asylum
“leadership by example.”

49. I’d like to believe the Philippines had some
influence in the sudden reversal of positions, but
I'm also well aware it could have just as well
been a function of timing and
circumstance. Aceh’s fishermen were rescuing
boat people even before Indonesia officially
allowed the Rohingya to disembark. Thailand
and Malaysia, before their crackdown on
refugees, have themselves given shelter to tens
of thousands of Rohingya refugees.

50. The truth is that we’re not all that different. It is only
that we took a stand, at a time when everyone else
had decided they had done enough.
I suspect it is at these moments when we are at our
best, when we realize there is no one left to stand
but us. I don’t believe there's any irony in a Catholic
country welcoming Rohingya migrants, in much the
same way as there was no surprise when Jews and
Protestants sailed into our ports. Our Muslim
south is just as vehement in their demand we offer
aid, promising land and protection to the Rohingya.

51. This is not about religion, as much as it is about
memory and necessity and pride. We know what
it is to live as underdogs. We have fought losing
wars, have marched unarmed and singing
towards a tyrant’s loaded cannons, and still
stood cheering as our pound-for-pound national
hero lost what may be recorded as the most
monotonous boxing match in sports history.

52. Many of us recognize the reckless courage it took for
the Rohingya to smuggle their children into tilting
boats. It is the same sacrifice we’ve seen in millions
of our own, who have risked abuse overseas for the
sake of future and family. We know what it is to beg.
We've stood at the receiving end of charity and
contempt. Maybe this is why so many of us will look
past political cost and practical consideration to the
reality of bone and muscle and beating heart.
I don't have the answers. All I know is that if the cost
of generosity is high, the price of our refusal will be
much higher still.

53. The crisis is not over, but the Rohingya are now
welcome in the countries they sought.
Thousands have been rescued and are now
under the care of Malaysia and Indonesia. The
Philippines, many miles distant, will have little
need to prepare its coasts. The Rohingya's
imagined future has never been this country – a
nation big on dreams and short on reality, torn
by conflict, wracked by disaster, whose own
people look to the distance for greener pastures.

54. We know what we are. We are the port of last
resort, and have little to offer beyond a separate
peace. Yet I write this with pride, in the hope
that there will always be a cluster of islands
southwest of the Pacific, where no ship in need
is called unwanted.

55. There are many days – when the thousands
stand sweating at midmorning waiting for trains
that do not come, when another toddler dies of
piss-poor conditions in Zamboanga, when a
chinless senator howls about the Muslim
scourge, when another scandal and another
charge and another whistle-blower takes over
the headlines – when there is cause to be
ashamed of who we are.

56. It is not today. Today, it is a grand
and marvelous thing to be born a
Filipino. – Rappler.com

57. I AM ADOPTED