A poem by Bishop Soc Villegas, set to music by Ryan Cayabyab.
Lea Salonga sings “Bayan Ko” at the funeral service for Cory Aquino
Remembering Cory’s EDSA, a documentary featuring Ambibo friend photographer Luis Liwanag.
Photographers in Dipolog, Dapitan and Zanorte pay tribute. View the album on FLICKR
US resident offspring of the Lacaya clan of Zamboanga del Norte bid farewell to Cory at the Hudyaka sa Illinois festival held August 1 at Proesel Park in Lincolnwood, IL.
UPDATE:
Live video and audio streaming links of the funeral of former Philippine President Cory Aquino.
GMA (VIDEO + AUDIO)
http://www.gmanews.tv/index.html
ABS CBN (VIDEO + AUDIO)
http://www.abs-cbn.com/
DZRH (AUDIO)
http://dzrh.tripod.com/
DZRV Radio Veritas (AUDIO + VIDEO ON TEST)
http://www.veritas846.ph/
PINASWATCH (Recorded video)
http://www.youtube.com/user/PINASWATCH2
August 3rd, 2009 at 12:46 pm
deepest sympathy to the aquino’s family
August 3rd, 2009 at 1:06 pm
with our prayers…rest in peace ma’am cory…
August 3rd, 2009 at 2:18 pm
Farewell Tita Cory…..Thank you.
August 3rd, 2009 at 2:28 pm
“ID AK ASII-GAN”. In my rush to attend Cory’s rally in Cebu that February leading to the EDSA Revolution I wore my t-shirt wrong side out. The kid in front of me read it aloud mockingly – “Ah! Ngiga’ng manoy uy! “ID AK ASII-GAN” man!!” Hilarious. Historic. That day I met the lady in yellow for the first and last time. Goodbye Ma’am.
August 3rd, 2009 at 2:31 pm
Finally, Cory and Ninoy will be reunited ” sa kabilang buhay “. Pray on!
August 3rd, 2009 at 2:32 pm
Gracias Tita Cory! You have inspired us till the end. You are the past and the future of the Philippines.
August 3rd, 2009 at 2:33 pm
THANK YOU FORMER PRESIDENT CORY AQUINO..
I envy you for you will be remembered for your greatness
and what you have done for the Filipino people. .
Thank you for giving us freedom…
farewell. .
August 3rd, 2009 at 3:06 pm
God made you an instrument to unify Filipinos all over the world. Like your husband Ninoy who laid the foundation, you too played a big part in Philippine history. Indeed, Ninoy and you are heroes. Me and my family are proud to be part of this era.
Farewell Tita Cory.
August 3rd, 2009 at 3:12 pm
blessed are those who died in the Lord; may they rest from their burdens because their good deeds follow them. Eternal rest grant unto Maam Cory O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon her. Rest in peace Maam . . . .
August 3rd, 2009 at 7:00 pm
Thank you for the freedom you restored!
Farewell President Cory!
August 3rd, 2009 at 7:04 pm
thank you president corazon c. aquuino for inspiring many of us, filipinos. your sacrifices and contributions for the renewal of philippine democracy will always be remembered. we will always be grateful. so long, madam!
August 3rd, 2009 at 9:11 pm
I admired her courage, faith and determination to keep the country’s freedom alive. Citizens and leaders around the world noticed how she loved democracy and stood strong to defend it.
August 3rd, 2009 at 9:56 pm
Sleep well Tita Cory..you are now in good hands…we will miss you so much…thank you for bringing back our lost freedom….Goodbye…..
August 3rd, 2009 at 11:50 pm
Our deepest sympathy to Madamme Cory Aquino. She was a great leader, wife and mother. Also, she’s a good model to all Filipino women.
August 4th, 2009 at 12:47 am
May you rest in peace Madame Cory. We truly appreciate what you’ve done to our country, Merci beaucoup dans tout mon coeur.
August 4th, 2009 at 1:17 am
Our deepest sympathy to Aquino’s family. Rest in peace…. We miss you…
August 4th, 2009 at 1:22 am
Our deepest gratitude to our almighty FATHER for sharing the life of our former president Mrs Cory Aquino. GOD made her an instrument for the quest for freedom… her simplictiy, guts, determination and love inspires not only filipinos but the whole world.
May you rest in peace and reunite in heaven with your beloved ninoy.
August 4th, 2009 at 2:16 am
i was born when she was the president.
she died when i wore yellow shirt at bed…
thank you tita cory..
you are truly a mother of democracy.you fought for the right of every single Filipinos as well as our dignity. She was there for the country, when the Filipino people needs her.. surpassing 7 coup attempts, husband in jail, daughter in crisis.its enough she really deserves to be at peace…
may God Bless you..
August 4th, 2009 at 5:17 am
Your legacy has touch many Filipino’s and the rest of the world. May you rest in peace Mada’m President!
August 4th, 2009 at 5:31 am
Deepest sympathy to the Aquino family. Rest in Peace Ma’am!
August 4th, 2009 at 8:44 am
Our condolences to the family of the late Cory Aquino.WBBM of Chicago played a part of her speech delivered here in the United States when she was President. She was not only admired by us Filipinos but the whole world as well.
August 4th, 2009 at 9:55 am
goodbye to Tita Cory, nobody and i mean nobody said (wrote) it better than this guy…
coz in this part of the world, there’s no better columnist than my idol, Conrado de Quiros of the Philippine Daily Inquirer…
here’s his ode to the late former President Corazon “Cory” Aquino…
this is amust-read…
http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/columns/view/20090803-218473/In-lieu-of-flowers
read on…
Theres The Rub
In lieu of flowers
By Conrado de Quiros
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 00:43:00 08/03/2009
Even as our eyes moisten, we see things more clearly than before.
We commend the soul of Corazon Aquino to heaven, whose ways she believed in with the passion of a convert and whose commands she obeyed with the steadfastness of a soldier. At least as she was able to glimpse them through the prism of human imperfection. Some being less imperfect than others, though, I don’t know that she wasn’t able to glimpse them better than all of us. Surely, if there is a heaven, some people deserve richly to be there. Truly, if there is a heaven, its doors fling wide open for those who tried to bring it closer to earth.
Over the last few months, Cory herself expressed surprise that she had lasted longer on earth than her doctors predicted. She had been given only three months to live after her cancer was diagnosed to have spread over her body, but she went on to live for well over a year. It wasn’t altogether a surprise for those who knew her. It seemed to be a habit that refused to die in her, that refused to die with her. Throughout her life, she defied expectations.
Nobody expected her, an ordinary housewife, to rise to topple someone who, wielding unbridled and inexhaustible power, seemed destined only to last forever. Nobody expected her, an ordinary housewife, to deliver a nation that, torn and bleeding from the cancer that had spread across its every pore, seemed destined only to be grabbed by sundry plotters and would-be saviors. Nobody expected her, an ordinary person, to live a life that, by the warmth and radiance felt by those who came in contact with it, would make that person an extraordinary human being.
But she did.
No one expected her to last this long, least of all herself. How it happened, no one knows, least of all her doctors. Why it happened, no one knows, least of all her detractors. If you believe in God, you can only surmise that she had unfinished business left to do. If you believe in Good, you can only surmise that she was commanded by heaven and earth to exert herself one more time, one last time, to help heal an anguished land.
That is by way of example. That is by way of showing us the reserves of strength and courage we need to summon to battle disease. Whether that is the disease of the body or the disease of the soul. Whether that is the disease of the individual or the disease of the society. The quiet dignity with which she bore her pain can only awe us all. The furious heroism with which she thought of others first before herself can only inspire us all. The unshakeable conviction she held that life goes on after death, whether that is the life that lies beyond, in the bosom of the Divine, or the life that flows in the temple of the secular, in the memory of the race, can only bid us follow in her path.
In her leaving, Cory is more present to us than she has ever been before. In her passing, Cory is more alive to us than she has ever been before.
The people closest to her say her one last wish for us was, as then, to fall down on our knees in prayer. I will do as bid. I will invoke the power of prayer. But I will also go on to invoke what I believe to be the real power behind prayer. That is that true prayer comes from the heart and not from the gall. That is that true prayer is attuned to the will of God or Good, and not to the lure of lust and ambition.
I commend that kind of prayer above all to the one who holds the fate of the nation in her hands, the one who calls herself president. Even if that hope seems misplaced, even if that thought seems desperate, even if the possibility that heaven may yet compel the blind to see the light is remote. Who knows? Maybe the spectacle of the impermanence of things, of the spirit flowering long after the flesh withers, may yet plant sight in the blind, may yet enlighten the unseeing.
It is not a choice in any case, it is a necessity. We beg you, we warn you: Respect the law as Cory did. Obey the law as Cory did. At the end of things, go quietly. At the end of things, go gracefully. That is as much true of life when it ebbs as of power when it ends. Cory showed so as much by the graveness with which she accepted power as by the joy with which she gave it up. Cory showed so as much by the dignity of her entry as by the gracefulness of her exit.
The strength of democracy does not lie in heroes, it does not lie in saviors. The strength of democracy lies in its institutions and its processes. Chief of its institutions is peaceful transition. Chief of its processes is knowing when to cut, and cut cleanly.
I commend that kind of prayer as well to all of us, the people of this country. Cory is not the only one who has lingered at death’s door these past years; we have too. Democracy does too. I commend that we pray for the least among us, for the most oppressed among us, for the most tried among us. I commend that we pray that at the end of things we may be able to conquer the things that murder us, as much inside us as outside of us, as Cory has, by the largeness of her spirit, conquered death itself.
But I commend too that we see the one underlying principle in prayer that those who have truly understood prayer have seen throughout the ages, from Aesop to Mohammed to Jesus Christ: Zeus helps only those who help themselves. Allah helps only those who help themselves. God helps only those who help themselves.
I share the bereavement of those who have broken bread with Cory, who have walked with her through the length of her days. I do not think of this as a parting of ways, only a temporary diverging of paths. We will meet again.
In lieu of flowers, I offer my prayers. In lieu of tears, I offer my remembrance.
August 4th, 2009 at 10:12 am
Cory Aquino is an institution. She’s an extraordinary leader in our extraordinary time and she led our nation with grace, dignity and class non-pareil. To me, no other mortal is more alive in death than her.
August 4th, 2009 at 10:40 am
Farewell Madam Cory, may you rest in peace…
August 4th, 2009 at 11:06 am
Tues, Feb 25, 1986, Fuente Osmena, Cebu – Remembered the day so well when people from all walks of life were out in the streets chanting, dancing and merry-making. Anywhere you look was the color yellow and news headlines ran – MARCOS FLEES, CORY IS PRESIDENT!. Emotions ran high and I was in that sea of humanity chanting CORY! CORY! CORY! while doing the sinulog dance….interrupted by occasional playing of BAYAN KO. The events unfolded as we know today…Had history been different, nay!, i’d rather know history as it is today….NO regrets….after all Cory stood for good governance, truth and justice. CORY, the mother of Philippine democracy, the champion of the masses, the mother of Kris….Selfless even to the last…living and dying by examplet…opting not to have a state funeral, no fanfare, just wanting to be with her beloved Ninoy and that is the true CORY!!! That fateful day was Filipino’s defining moment and I am grateful that I was part of history…..the day after…was my birthday….Who can forget that!
August 5th, 2009 at 2:31 am
we will surely miss her. i use to watch her speech videos on youtube. may she rest in peace.
August 5th, 2009 at 6:56 am
My deepest sympathy to the Aquino family!I was there with my sis tata during the Edsa revolution when Marcos had flew away ,what a memorable moment can be,and the feeling of relief from the dectatorship of Marcos.thank you very much Ma’am Cory!,it was your leadership that made the filipino awaken. thank you!! May you rest in peace!!God Bless you.
August 5th, 2009 at 10:36 pm
The LEGACY that tita Cory left for humanity will never be forgotten. She reunited the Filipinos when we were divided, brought order in time of chaos, and most of all, through her, we were recognized by the whole world by our Peaceful Revolution. She is one of a kind. We pray that she’ll have happiness and love now that she is with Ninoy and the angels. Goodbye Tita Cory and Thanks!
August 5th, 2009 at 10:43 pm
we love you tita cory…
u will always remain and be remember in our hearts
we will continue what u have started…
we thank u for all the things u’ve done for our
country.. especially for all ur sacrifices,
love, and patient to us filipino people…
we will remain as a witness to all the good
things u’ve done and how all filipino people
are grateful to have a president like you..
you will always be the mother of our democrary…
and you show us the real meaning of what
“LOVE for our COUNTRY” really is….
we are so proud of u…
farewell to u madam president…
we love u….
August 6th, 2009 at 5:04 pm
WHEN NINOY WAS BURIED I WEEP IN ANGER. WHEN CORY WAS BURIED I WEEP AND JOINED THE BITTER SWEET OUTPORING OF LOVE FOR THE MOTHER OF POST MARTIAL LAW MOTHER AND PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES.
August 9th, 2009 at 11:59 am
RIP our former first Lady!!! You will be missed! God will take care of you there…
November 18th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
isa sa mga magaling at marangal na presidente si dating pangulong Cory Aquino. sana magkaroon pa ng presidente na katulad niya.