My tribute to

Bob Serrano
~ Naomi Corpuz
Tito Bob, you are now in God's loving
embrace. I am shocked until now after learning of your
passing.
We have differences in faith, but unlike other fellow
Catholics, you never condemned me. RH Bill was just
approved in Congress at that time, and as most CFCs, you
were against it. Though you knew I supported it, you and
Tita Ai discussed with me during that breakfast treat in
Greenhills civilly and with an open mind which I will truly
appreciated. Though you were hurrying to buy an iPad
mini for your daughter-in-law as a christmas gift, you took
the time to treat me for breakfast few days before
Christmas to share to me your views on issues concerning
the stances of the Catholic church. Whether I will
reconsider your views or not in the future, I still thank you
for your time and effort for spending that time with me to
share your views on your Catholic faith.
Most of all, I will never forget your "gift of healing". I wrote
about it in my blog entitled, "I Was Slain Today," dated
October 23, 2012. I am now sharing this to others to let
them know how you have touched my life. I dedicate this to
you Tito Bob. Job well-done! Rest now in God's kingdom.
~ Naomi Corpuz


I Was Slain Today
(written on Oct 23, 2012)
Dear Reader,
I am a skeptic. I do not believe in gifts of healing that is why I never took
the effort to meet the famous Fr. Suarez although I already have all the
connections to be able to meet the priest in person. My Doctor Uncle (my dads
older brother) who was once the highest-ranking head of CFC Central America
always serves as host to Fr Suarez everytime the priest is in the United States.
They always initiated to invite me to come and see him but I never took the
effort to do so. I joined to watch a Fr. Suarez Event, once though at the Ultra
a few years back with a ticket given to me for free by my companion Joyce
Perez (my closest SFC friend) but I never really believed that he could heal. I
told myself, Maybe he can heal a selected few? Or a mere coincidence that
they just so happened to get well at the time he touched them? I was a
skeptic. I never really believed.

Today though, a had a total 360 degree
turn. I was slain today. No, I wasnt killed
(Obviously). I was slain by the Holy Spirit
through the gift of healing of Tito Bob Serrano of
29 A.D. with the assistance of his wife Tita
Aileen. Geraldine Pia, my good SFC friend
brought me to their house for I am suffering from
a lingering illness for quite some time now and I
have not been cured. Ngunit ako ay biglang
bumagsak when Tito Bob touched me on the
forehead and prayed with tongues. Was I
already cured this morning when that
happened?
Geraldine Pia shared to me that she has been bringing some friends who
are sick and under situations almost the same as mine and it worked for some
while for others didnt. However she explained that the ultimate healer is
Jesus and it depends on the person on a case-to-case basis if they can be
healed. Tito Bob is merely an instrument.
My opinion is that it is your faith that can save you. As in the Gospel of
Mark 10: 42-56 Jesus was able to save the blind Bartimaeus through his
faith as He said, "Go your way! Your faith has saved you." Bartimaeus who
was at the roadside, blind and begging called the Son of Man when he heard
Jesus was coming. "Many people scolded him and told him to keep quiet, but he
shouted all the louder, Son of David! Have Mercy on me. Not minding
that he was scolded and rebuked by the people surrounding him and
Jesus, He even shouted all the more the Son of David, and he was saved
because of his faith. Coincidentally, this will also be the next Sundays Gospel
this coming weekend. I know this because I always attend a bible sharing
group every tuesday at 7pm in the evening, which is also the same day that I
met Tito Bob and Tita Aileen.
Going back to my experience with Tito Bob and Tita Aileen, I chatted with
the couple, and shared to them my struggles and my past. I was able to share
without any hesitation what I was suffering from and my painful experiences. I
cried a bucket of tears. I am not saying this to sound overdramatic but all I
am suggesting is I had a sharing that I was able to accept what had happened
to me and was able to share it wholeheartedly to the couple.
In connection to my sharings to them on my personal life, I also shared in
passing to Tito Bob and Tita Aileen that I keep a collection of masks in my
room and it came from different places in and out of the country. They asked
me where these originated from, but I cant really know because most of them
where just bought from stores. They shared to me that evil spirits can pass
through such masks, and even antiques (which my family has a huge collection
both in our house in Manila and Ilocos Norte where I grew up). They said it is
not far-fetched that such evil spirits can be a reason for everything that was
causing me pain such as my present illness.
Soon as I got home, I told my mother everything that had happened. I
told her that Tito Bob and Tita Aileen prayed over me with their gifts of tongues
(which I rarely experience), and that I fell. Unbelievable, yes, if I go back in
time that I was a skeptic. But I have no reason now not to believe until I
experienced it myself. I fell and was slain by the Holy Spirit today.
My mom soon started to gather all my masks and cleaned up my
room. She placed all the masks in a box and took a Divine Mercy frame and
hung it on my wall where one of my masks used to hang. When she came back
to my room from a telephone call, the frame was gone until she found it on the
floor with the frames mirror broken into pieces. It could be that my mom was
not able to hang the frame properly, but she told me that there was an evil
spirit that she felt who tried to remove it. She has no evidence but through my
moms instincts and gut-feel she knew it.
We soon called Tito Phil, a CFC leader who has a gift of prayer for
deliverance and told us what to do in the meantime. As told, I again wore my
necklace with the St. Benedict pendant, and my mom and I prayed the rosary
together with the maid.
I am now in my room alone at 1.45am in the morning. It is clean and as
what we call in the vernacular "maaliwalas". Before I started writing this, I
wasnt scared at all being alone in my room and I told the evil spirit, "I dare you
come to me, and I will fight you back."
Though I have yet to witness the changes that will come after my
experience with Tito Bob it is an UNDENIABLE FACT that I was slain. Never
in my life that I fell after being touched by someone with a gift of
healing! What makes it even better in going to the couples house, I was also
slain by the spiritual counseling through the words of wisdom of Tito Bob and
Tita Aileen.
I was slain by the Holy Spirit and I also felt a renewal in spirit like being
born again to a new life and a new start. And yes, like the Holy Spirit, I am
also ready to slay anytime any evil spirit who dares try to conquer me. For it is
only my Healer can conquer me. My Ultimate Healer, Jesus Christ.
Love,
Naomi
Source: http://artistnaomi.tumblr.com/post/34173033059/i-was-slain-today