Cancer cure

So far human knowledge and expertise, for all its pretensions have not found a cure to one of the most debilitating illnesses of modern times – cancer.

When struck with cancer many victims react with immeasurable pain and some fall into despair. They know that cancer is a killer, rarely do victims survive and many have brief respites, only to expect with horror the return of the disease.

Resort to prayer and submission to God’s will, to the Catholic faithful, have turned the disease into an opportunity to find peace and even saintliness.

I have written of St. Ezekiel Moreno who was afflicted by cancer and died of it. Despite the excruciating pains he offered his suffering to God. Today he is invoked by cancer victims who might not have been physically cured but certainly spiritually strengthened until their last moment of life.

Here is another documented story of a cancer victim who prayed for help from St. Ezekiel and from her testimony and medical record, she was freed of the illness. The documents were given to me by Fr. Cornelio E. Moral, OAR of the University of Negros Occidental.

These documents were addressed to Bishop Pedro D. Arigo of the Apostolic Vicariate of Puerto Princesa, Palawan, on May 25, 2012.

Erlinda G. David, 68 years old, widow with three children and a resident of Samson Road, Kalookan City, is one of eight siblings. Five of her siblings died of colon cancer, she has the same kind of cancer and two others are still fighting for their lives with the same illness.

In 1999, she was diagnosed with colon cancer and underwent surgery at the University of Santo Tomas Hospital. Three days later she was subjected to chemotherapy which lasted for six months. She thought that her illness had been cured, but ten years later, she had to undergo another surgery on the intestines at the Chinese General Hospital.

She feared she would succumb to cancer like her siblings. Her doctor advised her to undergo another chemotherapy treatment but she refused remembering what she suffered under this treatment.

She decided to put her fate “in the hands of our Lord Jesus”.

In October 2011, she learned of a special pilgrimage organized by the Pious Workers of the Divine Word: Lakbay Maria in Cebu which was to go to Palawan on February 24-27, 2012. It had a theme, “Palawan Experience: In the footsteps of San Ezequiel Moreno, OAR.”

As our readers will recall, I wrote that St. Ezekiel had worked for several years as a missionary in Palawan and this pilgrimage was to visit his parish.

Erlinda thought of the difficulties in travelling but when their coordinator spoke about St. Ezekiel, she took heart and decided to join especially when told that in their itinerary would be the “Balong Pari” (priest’s well) which was dug by the saint and had never been known to have dried up even during droughts when other wells had no more water. St. Ezekiel drew water from this well whenever he went to his parish work and to the nearby town of Arbolan.

When they were there, the pilgrims formed a wide circle near the chapel of St. Ezekiel and they placed Erlinda at the center and prayed for her. While they were praying around her, Erlinda wrote, “I felt being transformed as if my hairs were standing on ends. I was almost crying while my companions prayed.”

That April she underwent another colonoscopy and blood tests to examine once again her intestines. She wrote, “Thanks to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and St. Ezekiel Moreno, OAR the results of my examination turned out NORMAL so my doctor told me to just return the next year for another examination.”

The Endoscopy Report P-12-045 dated April 18, 2012 says the outcome is “successful”. Its description says of the examination that “scope (was) introduced up to 20cm from the anal verge. At this point, the coloenteric anastomosis looks unremarkable. The colonic stump is smooth and pinkish with no polyps noted.”

The doctor’s diagnosis: “Colonic polyposis S/P subtotal collectomy 2009; Normal proctosigmoidoscopy.” Ask your doctor what this means but for Erlinda she believed she was healed.

This report is signed by Dr. Arsenio Co, endoscopist of the Chinese General Hospital and Medical Center.

Another examination conducted the day before by Dr. Ariel M. Vergel de Dios, pathologist, has this finding of the “CEA ARCHITECT – 4.00 of the normal range of 0-5 NG.ML.”

A miracle? For those who have faith no evidence is needed; to those who refuse to believe no evidence is sufficient. One may not agree with Erlinda’s conclusion and her gratitude to the “Blessed Trinity, St. Ezekiel and the Blessed Virgin for the gift given to her.” Skeptics will sneer but that is her faith.*

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