Oath Taking Pinoy Style
June 29, 2004
This morning I attended the oath taking of the newly elected provincial officials of Bohol - governor, vice governor, three congressmen and nine board members (they are supposed to be ten but one was killed by an unknown assailant). It was held at the St. Joseph Cathedral after a mass officiated by no less than the Bishop of the Diocese of Tagbilaran, Msgr. Leopoldo S. Tumulak. The setting added solemnity to the occasion, it is also a symbolic act of the church and state unity (there’s this so-called separation of church and state in this country) for the pursuit of Bohol’s progress. It is also a sort of a warning to the officials that the church will be holding them to their promises, since they did their oath figuratively in front of the people and God. All of them have a Bible in their hands but unfortunately, save from one (whose husband had the presence of mind to hold the Bible for her), used their Bibles to prop their copies and not to place their left hand on while swearing to discharge their duties faithfully. They should have been told to memories their oath or just repeat the words of the swearing officers instead of reading from a copy, this way they could have trained their eyes on the people they swear to serve rather than the copy they are holding, that would have been very reassuring!
This morning I attended the oath taking of the newly elected provincial officials of Bohol - governor, vice governor, three congressmen and nine board members (they are supposed to be ten but one was killed by an unknown assailant). It was held at the St. Joseph Cathedral after a mass officiated by no less than the Bishop of the Diocese of Tagbilaran, Msgr. Leopoldo S. Tumulak. The setting added solemnity to the occasion, it is also a symbolic act of the church and state unity (there’s this so-called separation of church and state in this country) for the pursuit of Bohol’s progress. It is also a sort of a warning to the officials that the church will be holding them to their promises, since they did their oath figuratively in front of the people and God. All of them have a Bible in their hands but unfortunately, save from one (whose husband had the presence of mind to hold the Bible for her), used their Bibles to prop their copies and not to place their left hand on while swearing to discharge their duties faithfully. They should have been told to memories their oath or just repeat the words of the swearing officers instead of reading from a copy, this way they could have trained their eyes on the people they swear to serve rather than the copy they are holding, that would have been very reassuring!
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