Doggedly searching for the crux of the biscuit.
Please Monsignor, keep it down or else everybody will want one.
A man of the cloth and his family got the shock of their lives Monday morning after finding a four-month-old fetus hidden in a basket of fruits. Monsignor Gerry Santos had just celebrated Mass at the Quiapo Church in Manila around 9 a.m. when he received a basket of fruits from an unknown donor. [...] Santos said the aborted baby's hand and feet were already formed. He said a rosary was also placed inside the cheese spread bottle, which was hidden in a pile of apple and bananas.
He said his family wasn't able to continue eating lunch after the shocking discovery. His parents were "very disturbed" and "traumatized" by the experience. After recovering from the trauma, the prelate said his family immediately brought back the fetus to Quiapo Church, "and then I blessed the aborted fetus."
The fetus was then brought to the La Loma cemetery where it was provided a proper burial.
Also notable is this quote from the priest:
After the mass, pinauwi sa akin ng mother butler. I brought the fruits to my parents' home because it was our regular lunch and my parents' house helper showed it to me. It was inside a bottle of Cheez Wiz.
Pinauwi sa akin ng mother butler, indeed.
Weird story. Wonder if it was actually aborted, or a miscarriage/stillbirth?
(My best friend has just lost a 4 month old fetus. Funeral next Wednesday.)
Posted by: asilon at July 23, 2008 02:56 PMI am pretty sure that had to be a miscarriage/preterm birth not an abortion unless procedures are different in Manila for second trimester abortions than are standard in the US.
I wonder if it was sadly a family that couldn't afford a funeral.
Posted by: Penelope at July 23, 2008 03:08 PMI feel like I'm missing something...
pinauwi sa akin ng?
Posted by: Karyn at July 23, 2008 06:43 PMSorry, my handy Tagalog translator didn't know "pinauwi", but here's a helpful phrase should you find yourself held captive by rebels on Mindanau: "Sungk- itin natin ang mga hinog na prutas." - Let's get the ripe fruit from the tree by means of a pole.
Yeah, wtf is 'inauwi sa akin ng mother butler'?
Manilla and the Philippines is seriously psycically BENT. An American "Protectorate" since the early 1900''s, the colony has lived in abject, subjugating poverty since the early 1900's with the added bonus of military occupation and the coerced service (both ancillary and sexual) from that forced obligation. The people, as a whole, are seriously sociologically stressed and misguided (see, Michelle Malkin.
Even if America was to reform and justly provide places like the Philippines and Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia psychiatric and physical medical care, it would take generations to approach healing the wounds inflicted.
Then there's Iraq.....
I'm thinking the sender of the fruit basket was giving the Monsignoir a message...
Perhaps a reminder of a sultry Manila evening spent licking CheezWhiz off of each other's bodies before consummating their lust... er... Christ's love in the usual way.
Just sayin'...
Posted by: Ibetterbeanonymousforthisone at July 24, 2008 01:26 PMThe people, as a whole, are seriously sociologically stressed and misguided (see, Michelle Malkin.
OMG, would my Filipino friends give you a good smack for that one.
I kind of agree with anon: the priest may well have been the father. And surely the fetus was a miscarriage, not an aborted fetus.
Posted by: bitchphd at July 24, 2008 04:10 PMAlso notable is this quote from the priest:
After the mass, pinauwi sa akin ng mother butler. I brought the fruits to my parents' home because it was our regular lunch and my parents' house helper showed it to me. It was inside a bottle of Cheez Wiz.
So it was Wiz Wit', then? Clearly a Philadelphian fetus.
Posted by: ajay at July 25, 2008 12:40 PMAccording to this: http://www.freshplaza.com/news_detail.asp?id=25054, the full quote is: "Walang offertory pero may alay doon nakalagay sa table and then after the mass pinauwi sa akin ng Mother Butler (The Mass has no offertory but the fruit basket was on the table and the Mother Butler organization gave it to me)," Santos said.
Posted by: HemlockEcho at July 29, 2008 06:44 PMWhy are you people so strange? We know that you are aliens and we are going to tell everybody. Stop spreading cheese wiz on people and weird shit like that. Ok bye.
Posted by: naudiekarina at October 18, 2008 11:30 PM