Manila, Philippines, Feb 27, 2010 / 17:11 pm
Facing high temperatures and a lack of rain, Filipinos have increased their prayers that God resolve their country’s water crisis. The Archbishop of Manila has written a prayer to ask for rain that is to be inserted in to the daily and Sunday Prayers of the Faithful at Mass.
Archbishop Gaudencio Cardinal Rosales’ action was a prayerful response to government authorities’ warning that the country is facing drought and water shortages because of the El Niño climate phenomenon.
“Our relief will come from nature. And so we implore the Master of all creation, God, our Father, at whose command the winds and the seas obey, to send us rain and ease drought,” Cardinal Rosales commented, according to the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP).
“Let us together storm heavens with our supplication, that God’s mercy be upon us and send us the rain we need,” he added.