00:00Dear friends, I chose this reading about the weed that dies because this calls us to a lot of dying.
00:10If you do not die, if you cannot let go of your ego, then it would be very difficult for us to find life.
00:21Where true gladness is found.
00:24To our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you,
00:28the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. Amen.
00:33Can you be seated for the liturgy of the word.
00:36Liturgy of the word.
00:39We are here from 1983, from August 21, 1983.
00:46And there are a lot of us here.
00:48There, on August 21, 1983, thank you very much for joining us today.
00:54Father Flavie said that he remembered the day that his father encouraged him to go out and see the weed here in Illinois.
01:03That's actually August 31, if I'm not mistaken.
01:06But many of us remember August 21, 1983.
01:10And for me, it was seeing my mother at the door of our house.
01:15Because I was 6 years old.
01:18You know me when I was a kid, I was a bit fat, right Jackie?
01:22So my mom told me, if you mess up at the airport, I won't pick you up, you're too heavy.
01:29So I was the one who was left at home.
01:32And I remember August 21, 1983, they went home.
01:37My father was with Uncle Ninoy in the van where Uncle Ninoy's body was.
01:44So my mother and two brothers went home.
01:47And I have a core memory of his face at the door of our house.
01:53How long his face was, and the feeling that Uncle Ninoy was already dead.
01:59Everyone here, all of us here, has an August 21, 1983 memory.
02:04I hope we don't forget to tell that story to our friends, relatives, children, grandchildren.
02:14Let's not get tired of telling that story, because it's a story that every Filipino should know.
02:21When young people ask me, did Ninoy die because he was killed?
02:28I say, no, that's not the reason why he was a hero.
02:33He was a hero because he chose to go home, he chose to be alone in the country.
02:39He chose a peaceful, peaceful life in America to be alone with us.
02:45At the end of it all, he chose the Philippines.
02:49And I know that all of us here choose the Philippines.
02:54Every day of our lives, until the day we die.
02:58At this time, our President is the son of President Ferdinand Marcos.
03:05What can he say?
03:06I thought about that answer for a long time.
03:09And I thought of what he would say.
03:12Continue my fight.
03:14And that is what we are doing.
03:16We continue Ninoy Aquino's fight.
03:20Thank you very much.
03:22Long live all of us.
03:23Long live our fight.
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