Legazpi diocese posts prayer for deliverance from inclement weather, natural calamities

The Diocese of Legazpi has issued a prayer for deliverance from inclement weather and other natural calamities was posted by the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines' Episcopal Commission on Social Communications (CBCP-ECSC).

The Oratio Imperata or Obligatory Prayer is a set of prayers which the bishop or local ordinary of the church may publicly pray when a grave need or calamity occurs.

With the diocese that constitutes the entire province of Albay, which is along the path of Typhoon Tisoy, the church officials posted a prayer seeking to be spared from "the threat of calamities, natural or man-made."

The prayer also includes an acknowledgement that "The environment is made to suffer our wrongdoing, and now we reap the harvest of abuse and indifference."

"Global warming is upon us. Typhoons, rains, floods, and drought, volcanic eruptions and other natural calamities occur in increasing number and intensity." — BAP, GMA News