God has never failed to fulfill any of His promises

By Maria Lourdes Sereno

There are many things God is doing in our country. This is a time for quiet reflection, repentance and return to His ways. God has never failed to fulfill any of His promises.

If we would but quiet down, open our hearts and see that He has been faithfully telling us how Filipinos must live with each other, then we can see how gentle He has been to us all these decades.

Now we have felt that our hearts have been increasingly made tender and kind these past few months, have we not? Now we have been feeling more compassion for those who have not had the freedom from basics that we have had. Now we are starting to listen more. This is the work of God. While we mourn for what could have been, we feel that there is still burning within us the embers of hope. That is a very precious thing on which to build our country, but this time, on better foundations.

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Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno is living proof that true courage is forged through adversity.

Sereno rose from humble beginnings to become the country’s first female Chief Justice in 2012. She attended public elementary and secondary school, then pursued higher education through scholarships. She graduated valedictorian from the UP College of Law in 1984, and holds a Masters of Law degree, specializing in law and economics and international trade law, from the University of Michigan.

She was a law professor at the UP for nearly 20 years. The World Trade Organization recognized her stellar credentials with her 1998 appointment as Counsellor of their Appellate Body in Geneva, Switzerland. She was also involved in successful international litigation as co-counsel for the Republic and was AIM’s Executive Director for their Policy Center.

With her modernizing outlook and firm belief in the power of technology, she co-founded a corporation that developed the first annotated electronic research system in Philippine Law. Her tenure as Chief Justice is marked by far-reaching reforms, including eCourts, automated hearings, case decongestion, continuous trials, and expanded small claims courts. At the heart of her reform program is the strong conviction that justice and the law’s protection should be accessible and responsive to the most vulnerable Filipinos. Because she was a staunch defender of judicial independence, Sereno was subjected to intense persecution.

Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno is now a major voice for people-centered change in Philippine society. She believes this change is part of God’s desire for this country, that every Filipino is precious in God’s sight, bawat isa mahalaga, and that each citizen and every community has a role in building up this nation. She is an advocate for faithfulness to the vision of a “just and humane society” in the Philippine Constitution, and integrity and accountability in governance.

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God has never failed to fulfill any of His promises

There are many things God is doing in our country. This is a time for quiet reflection, repentance and return to His ways. God has never failed to fulfill any of His promises.

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