“Just Like Rizal” Advocacy Goes Online

“Just Like Rizal” has been launched through the “Asalto kay Pepe” celebration at the Manila Yacht Club June 16 at 6 p.m. the eve of his 151st birthday.

This online advocacy dubbed “Just Like Rizal” forms part of the Knights of Rizal’s program for 2012-2014 under the theme “Buhayin si Rizal sa Bawat Filipino.”

The Order of the Knights of Rizal is tapping the social media to intensify its efforts to propagate the national hero’s teachings, especially among the youth.

Order of the Knights of Rizal supreme commander Reghis Romero II believes that if the country’s national hero were living among today’s Filipinos, he would have been an active blogger writing his poetry and sentiments about today’s society and posting these in cyberspace.

Commander Reghis Romero II said, “Do you know that if Rizal were alive today, I am 100 percent sure that he would have been the number 1 blogger. Just look at the volumes of his letters to his friends, his family and his articles in La Solidaridad. He almost had something to write every day.”

“You have taken to the electronic media as a source of your social interactive life, giving a new dimension to our quest. You represent the young, energetic, ever curious, and dynamic generation whose interest and hopefully love of our country and admiration of Dr. Jose Rizal would bring our quest to a new level of accomplishment”, Romero said to the guests - media, bloggers and young students.

“You have taken to the electronic media as a source of your social interactive life, giving a new dimension to our quest. You represent the young, energetic, ever curious, and dynamic generation whose interest and hopefully love of our country and admiration of Dr. Jose Rizal would bring our quest to a new level of accomplishment”, Romero said to the guests - media, bloggers and young students.

As Rizal once said, the youth is “bella esperanza de la Patria mia” or “fair hope of my fatherland.” He has a firm conviction that the youth can do great things in molding the country’s future. And he is right, the Filipino youth are the partners of the society, their idealism, their burning passion and their commitment in serving their fellow men are the armors that they will going to employ in order to realize the nation’s aspirations that would truly effect change in the lives of every people living in the society.

Happy Birthday cake for Jose Rizal

The new members of The Order of the Knights of Jose Rizal

 Sen. Joey Lina

Order of the Knights of Rizal supreme commander Reghis Romero II with the bloggers 

Also guests are the young students, "the youth are the hope of the country"

To mark Rizal’s 151st birth anniversary, the Knights of Rizal launched two topics on Rizal on Twitter – #asaltoparakaypepe and #buhayinsiRizalsabawatPilipino.

The topics on Twitter, according to Romero, are in tune with the values espoused by Rizal such as love of country, being industrious, and honesty.