If you wake up and see our leaders and politicians in sackcloth and their bodies covered by ash, then the effect would be: Php.1= $1 and that the Philippines will be the envy of the world. Who am I kidding? It may be Ash Wednesday today but such scenario will just be a dream. If this becomes a reality, where will we get all the ashes?

Seriously,

For Catholics all over the world, March 1, 2006 is Ash Wednesday. It is the 1st day of Lent. It's a day of penitence to clean the soul before the Holy Week. As a tradition, churchgoers are marked on the forehead with a cross of ashes as a sign of penitence and mortality.

We need this right now. To humble ourselves and be repentant. Stop the self-righteousness, stop the finger-pointing, stop the hidden agendas, stop destabilization, stop the bickering, end the state of emergency, end the hate.

Repent. Sincerely.

And we all work for a better Philippines.