OFWs: OUR MODERN-DAY HEROES, Called to be Saints

At the onset of LENT, particularly the first Sunday dedicated for Migrants’, March 9,  the Church deemed it good to remember our  modern-day heroes who are sacrificing out there in the foreign shores for family and country. They are the millions of overseas foreign workers who toil and for some, literally slave, to earn to be able to help   their orphaned families here at home.

It is not milk and honey out there in their places of work as some may think. Being away from home and family is the biggest sacrifice they have to bear. This is not to mention the maltreatment that some of them experience in the hands of their exploitative and heartless employers.

They are not only helping their families. Their total foreign currency remittances to the country help keep our national economy healthy. Even during the global economic crisis that other nations went through, the Philippines kept its nose above the water because of the dollar remittances from our OFWs abroad.

Yes, our OFWs go through hardships and sacrifices not only during the traditional Lenten Season but all throughout the year as they work and labor in unfamiliar and at times, hostile environment.

Let us remember them this Lenten Season in our thoughts and prayers.