LITANIES AGAINST MICHAEL LINGA, THE PRIEST WHO IMPRISONED GOD IN THE ALMIGHTY'S HOUSE IN ISABELA

      Members of the Basic Ecclesiastical Community in Oscariz village has given me a copy of a one-page letter dated March 23, 2011 and addressed to Rev. Fr. Constante Dannug, Provincial Superior of the La Salette Fathers, the superior of Fr. Michael P. Linga, who closed the church of Oscariz, Ramon, Isabela last May 25. 

Attached to the letter are two long-sized coupon bonds detailing the community's grievances against the priest and signed by at least 80 persons. 

One grievance was a statement made by Fr. Linga, probably in his early 30s, during a meeting with BEC members, when he said, " It would be better to close the church, convert it into a basketball court and rent it out."

What? Wreck the building of the church?

I recently talked to Estrella Arellano, a fellow mannurat of San Mateo town, the mother of the priest who preceded Linga as Ramon parish priest. She has met the priest a number of times in the past. "Nagbalbaliwen," she said, referring to Fr. Linga, after reading the Dannug letter.

One incident that should have been included was that of the marriage of a young couple at the church in Ramon. The bride came late, but Fr. Linga proceeded with the ceremony--the groom alone marched in the aisle. The bride was crying when she arrived and it took some prodding from her relatives to join her future husband in the tying of the marriage knot.

Fr. Michael has a huge deposit in one of the banks in Santiago, according to reliable sources. Where did he get the money? The 50 percent collections from the Catholic chapel at the NIA building in Aguinaldo village near the Magat High Dam and the 50 percent from the nearby Ambatali chapel?

Incidentally, Jun Yee who has resigned as BEC president told this writer that Bishop Joseph Nacua of the Diocese of Ilagan was biased for Linga. The priest succeeded in obtaining the imprimatur of the bishop as reflected in the pastoral letter that was posted at the gates of the Oscariz Catholic church explaining the circumstances behind its closure.

Postscript:

In that year, Fr. Linga was transferred to an obscure parish in Pangasinan.