The late Odette Alcantara, the noted rebel environment advocate, was obsessed with angels. Her home was literally an Angel Museum, with dozens of photos, paintings, sculptures of angels scattered all around from sala to kitchen to dining room, of all sizes and shapes. Here are some true encounters with angels by Odette and others.
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‘True Tales’ Series – Volume 41
September 12, 2023 – Archives tr342
By Bernie V. Lopez, eastwindreplyctr@gmail.com
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In commemoration of the Feast of the Guardian Angels, October 4.
Odette’s close friend and alter ego (let us call her Evelyn) told us this anecdote. They were on their way with some friends to the farm of Dr. Jasmin Acuña in Tanay, Rizal, where Odette was to be buried. In the sudden heavy downpour, as they approached the farm, they were confronted by a landslide with a fallen tree blocking the road. They could not maneuver. They were frantic. Even their 4-wheel drive was useless. Suddenly, a second landslide fell behind them. They were trapped, sandwiched by two landslides. They wanted to run, and leave the vehicle.
Then, a ten-wheeler truck appeared out of nowhere. The driver tied a cable to a fallen tree and moved it out of the way. They were instantly rescued by this mysterious man. Odette asked the driver to follow the truck, wanting to thank the truck driver. But he was gone, poof, vanished into thin air.
Evelyn quoted Odette, “Everything around us is alive with spirits in many forms (referring to angels). They are all around us.” Odette’s angels were always with her.
Once, I was with Odetski on the way to Laguna together with friends to attend an affair. The car was crowded and we had to squeeze Odette on the back seat. Somewhere around Lipa, we got lost in heavy traffic. We asked around but nobody could help us.
Suddenly, out of nowhere, a tall handsome guy dressed in white came up from his vehicle and gave us directions. Odette said, “See, that was my angel on the rescue”. I pooh-poohed Odette’s remark, but it was not until I heard the story about the landslide rescue that I began to believe in Odetski’s angels.
Another anecdote told by Evelyn – Odette and Evelyn attended an affair at Manila Peninsula in Makati. It was 4:45 p.m. and they had to be at Blue Ridge in Quezon City at 5:30 p.m. for a soiree Odette organized. That is crossing the entire city on a rush hour, an almost impossible feat. It took a while before they finally got a taxi. Odette told the driver to step on the gas. Curiously, there was no traffic.
Odette said, “Look behind. If you notice there is traffic, but in front there is none. My angels are at work with their silent wang–wang.” Noting the driver’s tension, Odette asked, “Bakit, natatakot ka ba sa akin?” (Why, are you afraid of me?) The driver asked, “Mam, mangkukulam po ba kayo?” (Are you a witch, ma’am?) Odette simply laughed. They reached her house at 5:20 p.m. The taxi meter read P250 but Odette handed the nervous driver P500. Now, you understand why she was called the Green Witch. Enough of Odette’s occult nature.
Victor, a close friend, told me this story. For him, the existence of angels was theoretical, until one day, he had a direct experience with one. Victor and his wife went to the Glori’s Supermarket near their home in Talayan Village to buy groceries. When they returned to the parking lot, the car would not start. For a whole 20 minutes, they were stranded. They were getting really upset.
All of a sudden, out of nowhere, an ordinary-looking young man appeared, and said, “I will start your car.” Suddenly, the man reached out for the ignition key from the driver’s window, and in one click, the old Fiat started. Victor was shocked. He wanted to thank him, but he vanished into thin air. Victor commented, “I sincerely believe that each of us has an angel, whether we like it or not. The angel is there to protect us and get us out of our dilemmas”.
A friend told me that he could ‘talk’ to his guardian angel, not in words, but in his mind. There you go.
The War Between Jesus and Satan.
One day, at the Mother Ignacia Healing Center, the heavy four-foot statue of St. Michael fell from its garden perch. No storm could have possibly blown down the heavy bronze statue. And there was no storm at that time.
Healer Sr. Raquel Reodica, RVM, said that the incident was an omen of the intensifying war between Jesus and Satan, and that we have to pray to St. Michael, who defeated Satan in a great ancient battle, to send us our guardian angels to protect us from sickness, accidents and the temptations of the devil.
The war between Jesus and Satan, between Good and Evil, between St. Michael and Lucifer, has been going on for the last 2,000 years. It is now intensifying in our age of confusion, conflicts, hatred, greed, and hypocrisy. Our reply should be enlightenment, harmony, forgiveness, sharing, and sincerity.
That is a war is not just in the outside world we live in. It is also a war inside us between good and evil. We need our guardian angel beside us to shoo away the devil who is whispering in our ears.
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