Seven-time Palanca winner Floy Quintos’ swansong “Grace” is based on the true story of the Discalced Carmelites of the reported apparitions in Lipa, Batangas that captivated the country and the international press in the late 1940s.
The star-studded play"Grace" is helmed by"Ang Huling El Bimbo" and"Buruguduystunstugudunstuy" musicals director Dexter M. Santos and is about the controversial Lipa apparitions. It runs until June 16 in PMCS Blackbox Theater, Circuit Makati.MANILA, Philippines —
The choice for the banished Mother Prioress Cecilia of Jesus , accused of sexual abuse and reduced to a kitchen maid, is to write a forced recantation under threat of damnation and excommunication from the church that meant everything to her. Could the penalty had been less foul if she were a man — a priest or a bishop, or a foreigner, and not a Filipina nun?
Yet in a span of two years, the uncontrolled crowd reached half a million and Lipa is drying the coffers of other dioceses, attracting devotees from New York and beyond, that Rome must act. The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith hands a swift verdict out from the papal nuncio Monsignor Egidio Vagnozzi who never stepped foot in Lipa, that the happenings have “no supernatural origin.” The rationalist dismissed Filipinos as quacks who love spectacles.
The Lady also identified herself as “Mediatrix of All Grace,” which as Msgr. Vagnozzi explains with Italian diacritic, presents a theological conundrum since Christ is the only Mediator, unless Teresing heard it incorrectly that it should be in the plural “graces” in reference to interceded prayers. Keithley-Castro, mother or actor Diego Castro, was awarded with the Philippine Legion of Honor for her coverage of the 1986 People Power Revolution.
When another Lipa Bishop Ramon Arguelles authorized a reinvestigation and declared in 2015 that the apparitions are supernatural and “worthy of belief,” the Vatican reiterated its decision. Until recently, the Archdiocese of Lipa’s Commission on Research and Documentation’s “Miracles of the Rose Petals” continued to gather affidavits of inexplicable cures, including from surgeons and physicians.
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