Lola Coring's Devotion
To Our Mother of Perpetual Help...
Lola Coring was a devout Catholic and a pious devotee of Our Mother of Perpetual Help. Despite her tight schedules juggling her career with raising her children most of the time on her own due to the nature of Lolo Jose's job in Mindanao, she would never forget to pray the daily rosary and the yearly novena encouraging her children and later on - us, her grandchildren, to do the same. But more significant than her devotion was the fact that she lived her faith to the very end. Even at times when she was in difficulty herself she never turned down a child or a friend asking for her help, a trait which others saw more as a weakness.
Whether her extraordinary kindness was perceived as a strength or a weakness by the people who knew her was irrelevant to us. All we knew was that Lola Coring sheltered us when we did not have any place to go, fed us even if it meant having to endure hunger pains herself and above all made great sacrifices by sharing a part of her being with us so we would be able to fulfil our respective roles as defined by our gifts from above.