AFTER personally experiencing the healing powers of magnesium in January 2014, a Filipino became the world’s first certified magnesium-advocate priest.
Dr. Carolyn Dean, the world’s leading magnesium advocate and a medical and naturopathic doctor, confirmed in an e-mail on March 12 that Rev. Fr. Uldarico “Dari” D. Dioquino, priest in charge of home for the aged Kalungan ni Maria in Antipolo, Rizal, is the only Catholic priest with that stature.
“I don’t know of anyone else,” she said. “So, he is likely the only magnesium-advocate priest.”
Father Dari used to complain of back pain and Charley Horse, until he met the country’s leading magnesium advocate, Mary Jean Netario Cruz, a naturopath and certified well-being coach.
On January 29, 2014, Dioquino was visited by Netario Cruz at Kanlungan ni Maria’s former home in Antipolo. Driven by an intense passion to evangelize the mineral’s natural and safe healing power, she took the opportunity to introduce it to the priest.
Kanlungan ni Maria, which relies on the generosity of charitable people and organizations to shelter, clad and feed its residents, was the perfect ground to sow the seeds of magnesium apostolate.
Most of the body pains in seniors are related to magnesium deficiency, Netario Cruz said. The resident seniors complained of muscle cramp, back pain, frozen shoulder, stiff fingers, gout, arthritis and other health conditions.
On the same day, Netario Cruz, who addresses various body pains by transdermal therapy, applied the mineral, in its liquid state, on the painful areas of the seniors.
Dioquino, 59, who spent the last 12 years sleeping in a cramped room in Kanlungan on a poorly furnished wood bench, said he slept in the room that served to store goods and medicine and received the therapy for his back.
The residents reported ease, and Dioquino himself was amazed at the relief he felt.
Dioquino, from Sorsogon, became interested in magnesium and the unfolding wonders it was capable of performing outside the home for the aged. Hew has been in charge of Kanlungan for the past 13 years.
In mid-2014, he created the posion of well-being director in the Kanlungan for Netario Cruz, which she accepted with pleasure. They worked together for the health of residents.
As she consistently and generously shared the richness of her treasure trove of magnesium knowledge, Father Dari gradually became well-versed about this mineral.
Dioquino, who finished Theology at the University of Santo Tomas and became a priest in 1990, learned that the typical Filipino diet is poor in magnesium, and that caffeine, alcohol, stress, strenuous activities, and some pharmaceutical drugs exacerbate the body’s deficiency for this mineral.
“When the body becomes deficient in magnesium, a particular part becomes painful,” he said. “The pain, however, can be addressed by repletion either transdermally or orally.”
Kanlungan ni Maria residents, over 20 elderly men and women in their new home in Antipolo, are well-provided for and taken cared of. Gradually, Dioquino thought about sharing the residents’ bounty, across remote areas, where seniors grimace in pain due to lack of knowledge and poverty.
Together with Netario Cruz and Victoria Baterina-Solis, who is the special project director for Kanlungan, the priest organized a pain-healing team last year.
Last September he rolled out the apostolate in Jalajala, a peninsula town in Rizal, where over 100 less-fortunate seniors were relieved of Charley Horse, stiff fingers, migraine, painful shoulders, chronic arthritis and other body pains.
He pushed across Rizal, conducting free magnesium therapy and giving away free magnesium to the less fortunate, especially the elderly, in the towns of Pililia, Cainta, Malaya and the indigenous community of Dumagats in a mountainous section of Tanay in the following months.
In February this year, Dioquino flew his apostolate to Bohol, where his team conducted free therapy and provided magnesium to 150 seniors.
“With Father Dari’s desire to liberate the sick from pain, he tirelessly reaches far-flung areas,” Baterina-Solis said. “I see very clearly that his desire is deeply ingrained in his heart.”
At present, about 1,000 people, most of them poor, have received free magnesium therapy. In this way, Dioquino has brought the church closer to the people.
“He walks the talk of the church,” Netario Cruz said. “He resuscitates the dying faith among Christians.”
The mineral, by which Dean, who is based in the US, addresses anxiety and panic attack among executives and athletes, is to Dioquino a gift to address pain as the divine power to heal is to God.
“Christ has the divine power to heal afflictions,” he said. “I, who possess no divine power, but do the apostolate to wipe men of banes as He expects me to do, invoke the natural power of this mineral to help my sick brethren.”
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