A full life of helping people in their legal and health needs is not all that God must have planned because in their rich life came the mission of building churches in the couples for Christ.
Their marriage is a model that only a few couples can even hope in their unselfish lives. They have never seen each other as apart but more as a package.
Late last year, amidst a life of serving couples in North Luzon and contributing to the Gawad Kalinga's project in Benguet among others, Ed was diagnosed with a rare kind of cancer of the blood. This cancer was affecting his bones as well.
In those days of pain and weakness, Ed says that he never asked why he had to contract the disease when he dutifully listened to God's prodding.
He said during the Good Friday service as a witness to the Seven Last Words, "The Lord said, 'I am giving because I love you and want you to come back to me'."
I would have been angry with my situation, if I were him, because it seemed like I was working for an insatiable God.
A God who still remained displeased with me when I had driven my van around the Northern tip of Luzon with other couples as my wife and I brought other couples to put up the Couples for Christ chapters in Tuguegarao and Ilocos.
The van reached the places that God sent it to without much question but with loads of faith and devotion.
But Ed and Lita see the challenge of the cancer to be a call for reconciliation. He said all of us will be committing all our spirit to ask for forgiveness to reconcile with our Lord. This reconciliation is important for us to decide what we want to do with our lives.
Last June 14, the Quiano's van became a prize at the raffle to raise the initial funds for the Divine Mercy Church in Atab, Marcos Highway. The winner must be happy because for P10, they got God's van.
The amount raised would begin the works for the parish church that the Quiano's have helped build together with 12 other couples from the Atab and Green Valley area.
The community has grown to some 500 from the three adjacent barangays. These barangays are what the Catholic Church calls the Basic Ecclesial Communities.
Into remission, Ed has responded well to the chemotherapy and infusions to build up his blood cell production.
Last November, he was not able to move around much. Today, he has new energy to put more work into serving the Parish of Divine Mercy build its church at the site of the Northern Luzon School for the Blind at Atab.
A text message reads, "The finest part of a good person's life is the little unknown acts of kindness and love. We obtain happiness not because we do great things but because we do small things with great love."
