tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89185980451686021392024-02-28T04:49:01.089+08:00The Pinoy CatholicThe blog of a group of Filipino Catholics and their frank commentary on anything that affects their lives as a citizen of the Philippines and as a Roman Catholics.Pedro Lorenzo Ruizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06817125203522413704noreply@blogger.comBlogger3305125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8918598045168602139.post-18049764089155492692016-09-28T13:07:00.001+08:002016-09-28T13:07:31.730+08:00Hymn to St. Lorenzo Ruiz<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Below are the lyrics to the beautiful hymn composed by the Filipino Jesuits to honor the first Filipino saint, St. Lorenzo Ruiz, whose feast day we celebrate today.<br />
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We love this hymn, but sadly there is a line here that is plainly wrong.<br />
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Can you identify which line it is and tell us why it is wrong?<br />
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Sanlibo man aking buhay<br />
Bawat isa’y iaalay<br />
Sa Diyos, sa bayan kong mahal<br />
Sasanggalang iyong dangal.<br />
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Isugo mo kahit saan<br />
Hamakin man ako’t saktan<br />
dalangain ko’y maging tapat<br />
Pag ibig mo’y sasapat<br />
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CHORUS<br />
Sanlibo man aking buhay<br />
Sanlibo ring iaalay<br />
Sanlibo kong kamatayan<br />
Sa palad Mo ilalaan<br />
Sanlibo man aking buhay<br />
Bawa’t isa’y iaalay<br />
Sa Diyos at bayan kong mahal<br />
Sasanggal inyong dangal<br />
Isugo Mo kahit saan<br />
Hamakin man ako’t saktan
dalagin ko’y maging tapat<br />
Pag ibig mo ay sasapat<br />
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Repeat CHORUS 2xPedro Lorenzo Ruizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06817125203522413704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8918598045168602139.post-65147463511476274922016-07-20T15:15:00.002+08:002016-07-20T15:15:10.227+08:00We are back in Facebook!Please like and share our new FB page!<br />
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https://www.facebook.com/The-Pinoy-Catholic-NewPedro Lorenzo Ruizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06817125203522413704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8918598045168602139.post-51781884925043818192016-07-19T18:14:00.002+08:002016-07-19T18:14:44.688+08:00I'M BACK!!!Did you miss me?<br />
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I need to recuperate. That's why.<br />
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Expect these things to come up in the following days.<br />
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<li>PCNE and Misa ng Sambayanang Pilipino</li>
<li>Ad orientem worship</li>
<li>Mediatrix of Lipa</li>
<li>More of the sexual predator aka Vice Postulator</li>
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Pedro Lorenzo Ruizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06817125203522413704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8918598045168602139.post-23296463255095660822016-03-29T21:00:00.003+08:002016-03-29T21:00:50.591+08:00The relic hunter is a pedophile and a sexual predatorI will not be using a Facebook anymore after the relic hunter and book writer was exposed of his modus operandi of luring young men as altar servers or followers of his "relic" ministry.<br />
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I have verified information of the number of young men he has sexually abused in the Diocese of Cubao, in the school and parish. I have verified information of what he did while he was in the USA, asking relics from different postulators since, according to him, the Servant of God is his "model and inspiration" which are all a ruse to build up his massive collection of relics.<br />
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Speaking of relics, lay people are not granted the privilege to own first class relics!<br /><br />
NEVER!<br />
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Only priests and religious are given this privilege and ONLY a bishop can write to the postulator of a saint to request a first class relic.<br />
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So, it confirms our long held suspicion that this relic collected stole diocesan letterheads and faked the signature of the bishop in order to get the relics he has. OR the relics he possesses are either stolen or FAKE as shared to us be reliable sources inside the Dioceses where he had been. Couple of priests and workers of the Chancery have relayed this story to us.<br />
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So, beware of this RELIC HUNTER - SEXUAL PREDATOR!<br />
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He is a disgrace to the Church!<br />
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Stay away from him and never be fooled by his other name - BLESSED IVAN.<br />
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<br />Pedro Lorenzo Ruizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06817125203522413704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8918598045168602139.post-36487545693040158502016-03-08T14:37:00.001+08:002016-03-08T14:37:04.482+08:00My Facebook account attacked by a homosexual predator in the Church!We have criticized Islam, Protestants, Modernists and contraceptive/abortion advocates but NEVER has our Facebook account been deactivated only until I gathered evidence and started questioning this high profile <b>RELIC THIEF</b> who is confirmed to have sexually abused young men altar servers who are serving at the Cathedral of his former diocese.<br />
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We will not be silenced Mr. Vice Postulator!'<br />
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You have met your match!<br />
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You can keep talking about being the <b>Vice Postulator of Blessed Ivan</b>. You can keep selling your <b>book about relics</b>. But the fact remains that you have been jumping from one seminary after another. You have faked the signature of bishops and illegally used the Chancery letterheads to secure for yourself first class relics.<br />
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And you cannot deny the fact the you are psychologically unfit to become an ordained minister of the Church because your carnal desires for young men is insatiable!<br />
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You are the FILTH of the Church which Pope Benedict spoke about!<br />
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You will be brought to justice for using the Church and the Sacred Liturgy as your window of opportunity to take advantage of young men!<br />
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Let the bishops, priests, religious and laity be warned against this individual!<br />
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PS: To our Facebook followers, while we work on recovering our Facebook account, you can send your messages via our email account thepinoycatholic@gmail.comPedro Lorenzo Ruizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06817125203522413704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8918598045168602139.post-14320250729017513092016-03-07T21:59:00.000+08:002016-03-07T21:59:01.544+08:00More Chinese New Year nonsense of some CatholicsLike what my friend asked "Is there a liturgical feast for the Chinese New Year?"<br />
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Hey Look!<br /><br />
It's favorite liturgical abuser! Bishop Leopoldo Jaucian, SVD!<br />
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If there are some native Filipinos (Lumads) who are as filthy rich as Henry Sy and his family, you can bet that these clerics will have no problem burning incense and praising the pagan gods of the natives!<br />
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PS: These pictures were shared by concerned parishioners of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel in New Manila, Quezon City. These people and I mean PEOPLE, are already concerned with the liturgical abuses going on in the national shrine. I thought they had a PROFESSIONAL MASTER OF CEREMONIES in that Shrine? Or maybe he is too busy being a "channel of blessing" to other people or as I call it "being open minded" to go into the networking business. Sources told me that this guy goes around wearing a clerical collar, even if he is NOT a cleric! Well, LIBRE ang MANGARAP like those guys who make a LIVING on RELICS. Guess who!<br />
<br />Pedro Lorenzo Ruizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06817125203522413704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8918598045168602139.post-73613295859158248862016-03-07T21:42:00.001+08:002016-03-07T21:42:13.670+08:00Spotted during the International Eucharistic CongressDo you see it?<br />
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Speaking of the IEC, I will dissect what those liturgical heresiacs (heretic hierarchs) like Manabat and Fr. Mark Francis have been saying.<br />
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And I also heard that a Cardinal-wanna-be made a statement in support of Misa ng Bayang Pilipino, trying to sound so mabango to the Francis-led Vatican.Pedro Lorenzo Ruizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06817125203522413704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8918598045168602139.post-81689581464412258082016-02-28T11:23:00.001+08:002016-02-28T11:23:34.520+08:00The relativism of Sta. Cruz ChurchI have already posted about this <a href="http://thepinoycatholic.blogspot.com/2014/02/gulp-alert-catholic-church-greets-mass.html" target="_blank">yearly abuse of Sta. Cruz Church</a>, an abuse meant to accommodate the pagan feast of the Chinese New Year.<br />
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Now I can say that this is not a liturgical abuse but a clear manifestation of the relativism of the priests of the Sta. Cruz Church.<br />
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What is relativism?<br />
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St. John Paul II discussed it in Evangelium Vitae:<br />
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Freedom negates and destroys itself, and becomes a factor leading to the destruction of others, when it no longer recognizes and respects its essential link with the truth. <b>When freedom, out of a desire to emancipate itself from all forms of tradition and authority, shuts out even the most obvious evidence of an objective and universal truth</b>, which is the foundation of personal and social life, then the person ends up by no longer taking as the sole and indisputable point of reference for his own choices the truth about good and evil, but only his subjective and changeable opinion or, indeed, his selfish interest and whim.</blockquote>
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Pope Benedict XVI also referenced relativism in his homily prior to the 2005 conclave that elected him pope:<br />
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How many winds of doctrine we have known in recent decades, how many ideological currents, how many ways of thinking. The small boat of thought of many Christians has often been tossed about by these waves – thrown from one extreme to the other: from Marxism to liberalism, even to libertinism; from collectivism to radical individualism; from atheism to a vague religious mysticism; from agnosticism to syncretism, and so forth. Every day new sects are created and what Saint Paul says about human trickery comes true, with cunning which tries to draw those into error (cf Ephesians 4, 14). Having a clear Faith, based on the Creed of the Church, is often labeled today as a fundamentalism. Whereas, relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and "swept along by every wind of teaching", looks like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards. <b>We are moving towards a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.</b> However, we have a different goal: the Son of God, true man. He is the measure of true humanism. Being an "Adult" means having a faith which does not follow the waves of today's fashions or the latest novelties. A faith which is deeply rooted in friendship with Christ is adult and mature. It is this friendship which opens us up to all that is good and gives us the knowledge to judge true from false, and deceit from truth.
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From these we can draw that relativism is based on the following:<br />
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1. There is no objective and revealed truth.<br />2. Truth is based on one's experience.<br />3. One's ego makes the judge of all things. This ego is mistakenly or maliciously called as "conscience"</blockquote>
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This ego centric approach to revealed truth as handed down by the Church becomes so relative, a mere lay person or priest becomes the arbiter of what is good and bad for the Faith even though things such as paganism and geomancy become ways of "being a welcoming Church".<br />
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This is how the Blessed Sacrament Fathers of Sta, Cruz Church have acted these past celebrations of Chinese New Year.<br />
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You will see in the photos below.<br />
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Huge Chinese New Year banners opposite the Year of Mercy banners</div>
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And for the coup de grace, Good Luck signs all around the church.</div>
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I have already discussed this STUPIDITY in this previous post. Click this <a href="http://thepinoycatholic.blogspot.com/2014/02/gulp-alert-catholic-church-greets-mass.html" target="_blank">link</a>.</div>
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I have heard about how accommodating the SSS Fathers as long as the price is...</div>
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"Mr. Bob Barker finish my sentence"!!!</div>
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A friend priest once told me "TPC, you think these priests would toy with these things if money was not involved?"</div>
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Imagine what they will choose when shown so much fame, power and money... </div>
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<br />Pedro Lorenzo Ruizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06817125203522413704noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8918598045168602139.post-55685616390048073292016-02-21T21:25:00.000+08:002016-02-21T21:25:22.609+08:00The hypocrisy of a liturgistI received a very disturbing news about a parish whose monstrance containing the Blessed Sacrament got robbed on the eve of the parisH fiesta.<br />
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After learning of the theft, the parish priest who is a liturgist of the SchoOl of Chupungco, decided to hush hush the theft and went aLong with the parish fiesta. And he did celebrate the fiesta, going to from one house to another, partYing in the parish ground as if nothing sacrilegious happened.<br />
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This hypocrite oF a liturgist And a scandal of a priest did not even bother to stop whatever festivities they had in the parish in order to call for an Act of Reparation. Keep in Mind, he must call for an act of reparation as soon as the theft was dIscovered. He did not even bother to announce what happened to the Blessed Sacrament during the whoLe Sunday! He just had to partY and get on with the fiesta celebration.<br />
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Guess which Diocese?<br />
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On the city over the hills.<br />
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Which parish?<br />
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Where the family whose father is a carpenter is.<br />
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Which District?<br />
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Ask Mar Roxas.<br />
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Shameful! You are a disgrace! And to think you brag about being one of the liturgists during the papal visit!<br />
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Shame on you!<br />
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If you can't be a good priest, then be a good layman!<br />
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Leave the priesthood you shameless cleric!<br />
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You'd put more emphasis on the fiesta than on the sacrilege that has happened to the Blessed Sacrament!<br />
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SHAME ON YOU!!!<br />
<br />Pedro Lorenzo Ruizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06817125203522413704noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8918598045168602139.post-78998325846022759542016-01-19T15:58:00.000+08:002016-01-19T15:58:10.785+08:00Board Meeting Mass Anyone?If you feel tired or just too formal, why not sit it out for the Mass?<br />
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Here's from a newest member of the GULP:<br /><br />
<i>(Kapanata Community 6th Local House Chapter and Community Mass...</i><br />
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<i>Special thanks to ______________ and family for the beautiful accomodation and delicious lunch... — in Caloocan)</i><br />
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The priest is OFM.<br />
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Those in attendance are seminarians.<br />
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If this is how we train our seminarians, don't expect to get priests who are respectful of the Mass which Vatican II declared as the "source and summit of our Faith".<br />
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How to stop these men from doing this abuse?<br />
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If you catch them doing it, take a picture, send to TPC.<br />
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Second, don't support them financially until they celebrate the Mass reverently.<br />
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Pray for them too.<br />
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Sometimes, or most of the time, some clerics will think twice if they lose the support.<br />
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<i><br /></i>Pedro Lorenzo Ruizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06817125203522413704noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8918598045168602139.post-66173354649035435012016-01-19T12:15:00.000+08:002016-01-19T12:15:36.499+08:00Hoverboards, Charismatics and Liturgical AbuseAt least 10 years of seminary formation.<br />
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One decade!<br />
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That is how long a man spends inside the seminary before he is ordained to the priesthood.<br />
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You might be surprised to know that in all those years that a man is trained in the seminary, not a single day is dedicated to train them to respect the liturgical norms of the Church.<br />
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Truth of the matter is that these seminaries and theology schools don't even read the General Instructions of the Roman Missal. Instead, they bombard the poor seminarians with liturgical wackology from Chupungco and the San Beda Gang of Liturgical Hooligans subjecting the poor students to a liturgical mind conditioning sessions as if they are under a liturgical water treatment torture.<br />
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Inculturation? Check.<br />
Creativities? Check.<br />
Wanton disregard for liturgical patrimony? Check.<br />
Do-it-yourself liturgy? Check.<br />
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These are the people who always claim "Vatican II reformed this!" but would not even tell you that Gregorian Chant was mandated by Vatican II! EMHCs was never mandated by Vatican II.<br />
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"Oh TPC. You're being too legalistic!"<br />
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Oh really, now?<br />
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So when do we follow the rule and when do we disregard it?<br />
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Whose law are we going to follow?<br />
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Chupungco and his gang of liturgical hooligans?<br />
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Is it really about the law or is it about who we really worship at Mass?<br />
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When the Holy Mass becomes a personal play thing for the liturgist (a woman who just doesn't know what doctorate she wants in her life...hello there San Beda!) and for a priest who wants to desperately become a bishop he begged to be transferred to a shrine near the seat of civil power (hello there inside the lamp!), thing is you would rather have Willie Revillame, Vice Ganda and Joey de Leon whip up a smorgasboard of an worship service masked as an entertainment program (or vice versa) and it will rake in the ratings and big bucks! More entertaining and you folks at home get to bring home the cash! *ka ching!*<br />
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So we get the adoring fans of these priests, thinking that "Hey! Mass isn't boring with this guy around!" Thanks to our world class liturgists who spend more time destroying the liturgical reforms of the popes and creating their own brand of the Mass (hello Misa ng Sambayanang Pilipino!), rather than catechizing the laity about what the Mass really is.<br />
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So these fanatics whip out their cellphones and proudly video their hunk of a priest gliding down the aisle of the church in a sassy hoverboard, thinking "Hey! This guy's great!" (You can hear her admire how great the priest was in using the hoverboard while singing.)<br /><br />
And...boom! You get the priest suspended (and still whining and bitching that what he did is ok.)<br />
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PS: The Diocese of San Pablo is a bed rock of liturgical abusers. Remember this <a href="http://thepinoycatholic.blogspot.com/2014/05/gulp-alert-youth-know-how-to-dress-for.html" target="_blank">YES Camp</a>? That priest there acting ala Willie R is the Diocesan Youth Minister. Swag!<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">If the exception becomes the rule, then by all means, pose all your pictures in Facebook and Instagram and we'll be collecting them here in The Pinoy Catholic as long as we want!</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">If you think that what you are doing is right and acceptable by Church law, then go and videotape yourself like that priest in Megamall who can't stop orating and watching tambourine dancers every Sunday!</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Go ahead! And share what you have to offer in liturgical creativity to the whole world!</span></b><br />
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As I have said before, again and again, and after the Synod of Bishops on the Family...imagine the Second Vatican Council happening during this era, when all the technology is at our disposal, things would have turned differently.<br />
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I am afraid that these liturgical hooligans wouldn't dare document their adventures. They know it's wrong and they know they will find their day in court.<br />
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Kudos and more prayers to <b>Bishop Buenaventura Famadico</b> of San Pablo for immediately addressing the issue of liturgical abuse in his diocese.<br />
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In hindsight, do you think people will give a hoot if the priest did not ride a hoverboard?<br />
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Was it because that gadget is too expensive and people are up in arms against a cleric using that? Maybe he borrowed it?<br />
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Was it really about the gadget or is it a sign that people are now thinking about what the Mass really is.<br />
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If you think it is another specialty course you can get from Bukidnon, San Beda and Rome that you can just experiment with, just look at this picture and go party!<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8918598045168602139.post-31089124044342281992015-12-20T19:33:00.000+08:002015-12-20T19:33:00.477+08:00When even bishops do not know what to wear PART 2<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Guess what is wrong with this pictures?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Kahit na may <b>"LITURGIST" </b>nang katabi, <b>MALI</b> pa din. Partida, bata pa yan ni Jennifer.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Read more <a href="http://www.ucanews.com/news/manila-starts-beatification-process-of-us-jesuit/74737" target="_blank">here</a></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8918598045168602139.post-49550678707481687132015-12-12T10:49:00.000+08:002015-12-12T10:49:00.079+08:00MBP at UST CS<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What has happened to the Pontifical Interdiocesan UST Central Seminary, allowing a <span style="font-size: large;"><b>PAGAN</b> </span>Mass in its hallowed halls.</span><div>
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Thanks to our advanced technology, a group of scientists scanned the skull of St. Nicholas of Bari/Myra<br />
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But the myth about Santa Claus started with the real life of this holy man who gave a poor man the money for the dowry of his daughters.</div>
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He threw a punch at the heretic Arius himself during one of the sessions of the Council of Nicea! Nice...</div>
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Notice the crooked nose? It is often called a boxer's nose because an injury like that is common among boxers. Speculations about as to how the saint got it, but one thing is for sure. We know how the saint looks like.</div>
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It seems our contemporary artists have an idea of how the saint looks like. Take this picture of the saint's statue from his basilica in Bari I found in the Internet. This same statue is used in a procession held every year in his honor commemorating the translation of his relics to the town.</div>
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Pedro Lorenzo Ruizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06817125203522413704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8918598045168602139.post-22104142836620710082015-12-09T23:14:00.002+08:002015-12-09T23:14:44.647+08:00When Catholic leaders have no sense of what "holy" isROME, December 8, 2015 <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/sacrilege-catholic-leaders-react-to-vaticans-climate-change-light-show" target="_blank">(LifeSiteNews</a>) – Howling, grunting, and roaring animals, along with images of overcrowded city centers, depictions of pollution, and negative portrayals of industrialization, appeared on the facade of St. Peter’s Basilica this evening during a much hyped “climate change” light show.<br />
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The show was the <b>finale of the opening celebration for the Year of Mercy</b> <span style="color: red;">[It was part of the day's official program???] </span>declared by Pope Francis. The event was watched by tens of thousands in St. Peter’s Square along with estimated millions worldwide through online streaming. <br />
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The multi-million dollar show <span style="color: red;">[Where are those people who say "The money could have been used to feed the poor!"?]</span> titled "Fiat Lux: Illuminating Our Common Home" was <b>created and funded by climate-change partisans and population-control advocates</b> with the goal to “educate and inspire change around the climate crisis across generations, cultures, languages, religions and class.”<br />
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Along with images of the world and its endangered animals, including lions, birds, apes, and whales, appeared <b>New Age symbolism associated with ancient pagan deities</b>. <br />
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The show also took place on the most important Marian feast day for Catholics, the Immaculate Conception, where Catholics celebrate Mary being conceived in the womb of her mother Anne without the stain of original sin. <span style="color: red;">[No light show for this one.]</span><br />
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Many pro-family leaders from around the world say they are flabbergasted that the pope would allow St. Peter’s to be used as a backdrop for promoting the controversial and contentious “climate change” agenda. <span style="color: red;">[In fairness to the pope, he may not know the details about this one, like the rest of what is going on in the Church. He rarely reads or watches the news. He relies on what his closest advisers tell him.]</span><br />
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"I am sorry that the facade of St. Peter's has been turned into a propaganda stage for the scientific fraud known as <b>‘Catastrophic Man-Caused Global Warming</b>,’” Steven Mosher, president of the Population Research Institute, told LifeSiteNews. [<span style="color: red;">Because scientific evidence is now against these climate change zealots. So they now turn on humans for the blame, pointing to overpopulation as the cause as we are rodents or locusts infesting the planet. Yes, they do not see themselves as such, only those who are not with them, so they advocate eugenics. And stupid clergymen join the bandwagon.]</span><br />
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"<b>I am sick at the thought that this most sacred space — St. Peter's Basilica — will be the backdrop for the further dissemination of this fraud, whose ultimate goal is to impose a ‘Carbon Tax’ on the developed countries. This tax will not only cripple global economic growth and undermine democracy, its proceeds will be used to fund even more population control programs in the developing world</b>," he said.<br />
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The Vatican’s spokesperson for the event, Archbishop Rino Fisichella, the president of the Pontifical Council for the New Evangelization, called the event “unique…for its genre and for the fact that it is being displayed for the first time on such a significant backdrop.” <span style="color: red;">[I can see him jumping for joy like a little school girl who got her Barbie doll for Christmas.]</span><br />
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“These illuminations will present images inspired of Mercy, of humanity, of the natural world, and of climate changes,” he said. <span style="color: red;">[Did you see "MERCY" shown on the screen? All you see are animals. Watching it on Discovery or Animal Planet is much better. Such a waste of money and more than that, they desecrated the Basilica. But they don't care.] </span><br />
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Fisichella said that the light show on the Vatican is meant to link Pope Francis’ environment encyclical Laudato si’ with the United Nations Climate Change Conference (Cop21) currently underway in Paris. The Vatican has shown strong support for the conference. Having the show conclude the opening Year of Mercy celebrations also links the pope’s message about “mercy” to fighting “climate change.” <span style="color: red;">[Hard sell. How can it be linked when we should be talking about Responsibility and Justice when dealing with caring for the environment.]</span><br />
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Robert Royal, president of the Washington-based Faith and Reason Institute and a prominent Catholic commentator, called it “seriously wrong” to have a “radical environmental message” projected onto St. Peter’s.<br />
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“<b>This is the kind of thing ideological politicians do, like President Obama’s rainbow projection onto the White House after the Supreme Court approved gay ‘marriage.’ The White House is the people’s house, all the American people’s. St. Peter’s is even far more universal than that</b>.” [Whoever recommended this to the pope just opened the floodgates of these kinds of ideologies., except anything Catholic!]<br />
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“Projecting onto it a radical environmental message — and one that has no chance of actually resulting in an international agreement, given the unreality of the approach — seems to make the Church just one more international NGO, something Pope Francis has explicitly warned it should not be,” he told LifeSiteNews.<br />
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Voice of the Family co-founder John Smeaton said that contrary to popular perception, the <b>“environmental agenda” is tied to an anti-human agenda</b>.<br />
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“<b>The environmental movement commonly regards population growth as a threat. Developing nations are being flooded with contraceptives and subjected to pressure to legalise abortion. Given that contraception and environmentalism so often go hand-in-hand, it is deeply troubling that current Vatican authorities have so strongly endorsed the environmental agenda without taking an equally strong stance on the abortion and contraception agenda which lies behind it</b>.” <span style="color: red;">[Because those who are against abortion are so "obsessed" so anti-abortion advocates will never ever get this kind of reception.]</span><br />
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“<b>If the Vatican issued similarly strong and high-profile calls to world governments to end abortion, many lives could be saved. The St. Peter’s light show is a clear demonstration of the tragic truth that this papacy has the wrong priorities</b>,” he told LifeSiteNews.<span style="color: red;"> [I won't get my hopes high.]</span><br />
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The event, billed as “contemporary public art,” was sponsored by organizations named after Greek and Roman pagan gods that push the climate change agenda and by an organization that directly funds abortions in developing countries. <span style="color: red;">[I wouldn't mind the naming after the gods but I do mind that these groups are abortion champions!]</span><br />
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The main financial backer behind the event is the US-led World Bank Group via its Connect4Climate initiative. <b>The World Bank, created in 1945 to rebuild a war-torn Europe, has a long history of relentlessly funding abortion and contraception programs in developing nations under the banner of “ending extreme poverty” and “boosting shared prosperity.” Pro-life leaders have denounced the programs time and again as thinly veiled population control programs aimed at reducing populations considered by Western elites to be undesirable</b>.<br />
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Other partners include Vulcan Inc., a private company based out of Seattle, Washington, that “strives to create a new kind of future” by “upend[ing] conventional thinking.” The company was deliberately named after the Roman god Vulcan, the deity of destructive fire, whose earliest known shrine existed in Rome at the foot of the Capitoline Hill, close by the Vatican.<br />
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Another partner is Okeanos, an environmentalist foundation with the purpose of raising awareness “concerning the various threats our oceans are facing.” The foundation rails against what it calls the “sins against climate.” The foundation is named after the Greek and Roman Titan god “Okeanos” who was held to be the divine personification of the sea whose fish in one hand and serpent in the other signify bounty and prophecy.<br />
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Obscura Digital, the San Francisco-based organization putting on the actual show, has its name derived from the Latin root meaning “dark.” The company specializes in creating “immersive experiences that will change the way you think about the world around you” using holographic projections, 3D animation, and dynamic visualization.<br />
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The organization has in the past worked on climate change projects with the UN to show the “effect of human enterprise on the environment” and to issue a “call for global solutions.”<br />
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St. Peter’s ‘climate change’ light show and its prototype held in New York last August are bizarrely connected to pagan occultism.<br />
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<b>The shows director Travis Threlkel, founder and creative director of Obscura, said in an August interview when discussing the New York version of the show that was projected onto the Empire State Building, that pagan deities were specifically incorporated into the presentation. He said the show included the greek pagan goddess Gaia, a Greek Mother Earth who has been appropriated by worshipers of nature, along with Aya, a Babylonian mother goddess associated with the rising sun and with sexual love.</b><br />
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It was at the New York show’s end that startling images of the faces of various pagan goddesses were projected onto the building. Predominantly displayed was an image of Kali, the Hindu goddess of death and destruction. Kali, who was depicted with a long blood red tongue and whose name means “the black one,” promised wealth to those who satiated her lust for blood by human sacrifice. Daily human sacrifices of young children were offered on her altars in India until 200 years ago. She has since been culturally appropriated by New Age spirituality as a kind of Mother Earth goddess. <br />
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“Android” Andrew Jones, the artist behind the image, said at that time that he wanted to depict Mother Earth in her “fiercest form” to draw attention to what might happen if people ignored the implications of climate change.<br />
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The Vatican show included artwork and computer-generated designs by Jones, but it is unknown at this time what artwork was featured. <span style="color: red;">[Not sure if these are pagan]</span><br />
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Jones, one of the world’s foremost digital painters and projection artists, specializes in portraying terrifying images of Greek, Roman and Eastern pagan deities. He said in an interview last month that he turns to these gods and goddesses by means of “psychedelic substances” (mind altering drugs) so that he can portray them accurately. He said the “deities” are “actively involved” in guiding his hand as he makes the work. <span style="color: red;">[These "deities" are called a manifestation of the devil as attested to by exorcists. Dabbling with these pagan religions opens you up to attacks and possessions of the devil.]</span><br />
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“These [drugs] are tools that <b>grant portals and access into different realms t</b>hat I still haven’t fully been able to grasp or say that I have uncovered all of their meanings. … They have evolved my ability to … discover new and interesting combinations of energy and matter. <b>Some have … shown me greater nightmares than I could ever depict or wish to imagine ever again</b>.” <span style="color: red;">[Told you.]</span><br />
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“These spirits and the deities that [the images] represent [in India, Greece, etc.] are actively involved, enrolled, and contributing to humans reinventing the visual vernacular of these beings as time and technology evolves,” he said.<br />
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Jones said that good art connects the viewer to something “mystical.” <b>He said in a 2010 video interview that a good reaction to his art happens when people “throw up, or urinate themselves, or [release] any sort of bodily excrement</b>.” [<span style="color: red;">That is not what happens to you when you experience the true God.]</span><br />
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While it remains unclear at this point if any of Jones’ pagan images whole or in part made their way onto St. Peter’s, various symbols belonging to deities mentioned by the show’s director Threlkel did. For instance, Aya’s symbol of the rising sun appeared at least on three occasions throughout the show, most prominently at the beginning when a giant sun was depicted rising upon St. Peter’s.<br />
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Catholic commentator Fr. John Zuhlsdorf wrote on his blog that the event was “irreverent” and even a form of “sacrilege.”<br />
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“<b>St. Peter’s is, without question, a sacred place and object (a very large one, too!). It is, without question, dedicated by the Church to sacred purposes. The use of this sacred building and place (where St. Peter was martyred and buried, a pilgrimage place, etc. etc. etc.) as a projection screen for mere secular purposes is irreverent treatment,</b>” he wrote.<br />
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Fr. Zuhlsdorf quoted the Catholic Dictionary which defines sacrilege as the “irreverent treatment of sacred things, persons or places, i.e., those dedicated by God or the Church to sacred purposes. It is a sin against the virtue of religion, of its nature grave, but admitting smallness of matter.”<br />
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“This has gone beyond ridiculous,” he said.<br />
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The priest said the image of the lion projected on to St. Peter's made him think of a passage from St. Peter's first letter: "Be sober and watch: because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about seeking whom he may devour. Whom resist ye, strong in faith: knowing that the same affliction befalls, your brethren who are in the world" (1 Peter 5:8). <span style="color: red;">[The same passage written on the base of the obelisk of St. Peter's square]</span><br />
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I can hear Archbishop Rino Fisichella say "Desecration?! What is that? We should be merciful!"<br />
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For people who think that this is creating mountains out of molehills, they do not even think of the implications of this event. Saying it succinctly, it's like the Communion in the Hand indult or should I say rebellion.<br />
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The Holy See didn't even consider projecting a show about the persecution of Christians or even of the destruction of another natural resource of the world: Human Babies being murdered every single day.<br />
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One of the principal teachings of Freemasonry is that it is the light that illuminates the world, brings people in darkness, whom it identifies as people of religion, to the light of reason and knowledge via Freemasonry.<br />
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Now you have the biggest Catholic Basilica in the world in complete darkness, illuminated by the ideology of climate change that still grasps for scientific evidence other than an award winning PowerPoint presentation.<br />
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If we can have dance shows and even parties held inside a church dedicated for the worship of the one true God, then how can we even find fault in using the facade of the world's most recognized Catholic house of worship as a projector screen by groups using the destruction of nature as a veiled campaign to push for more contraception and abortion?<br />
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This is sacrilegious!<br />
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If you can't find anything wrong in this one, then you have no sense what is holy anymore.<br />
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<br />Pedro Lorenzo Ruizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06817125203522413704noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8918598045168602139.post-47075299420378508552015-12-09T11:08:00.001+08:002015-12-09T11:08:35.059+08:00Quezon City Catholics should unite to UNSEAT Cong. Winnie CasteloAside from supporting the death law, RH Law, here is what Winnie Castelo, acting ala Santa Claus is giving away to employees of the House of Representatives.<br />
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DO NOT VOTE WINNIE CASTELO IN 2016!!!</div>
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TPC READERS IN QUEZON CITY! SPREAD THE WORD!!!</div>
Pedro Lorenzo Ruizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06817125203522413704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8918598045168602139.post-27749665421648939832015-11-26T22:23:00.002+08:002015-11-26T22:25:08.138+08:00What's up with these "crucifixes"?From my first blog post about those <a href="http://thepinoycatholic.blogspot.com/2013/12/a-crucifix-in-japan.html" target="_blank">ugly crucifixes in Japan</a>, come this other ugly one.<br />
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They do not even show the bitter passion of our Lord?<br />
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How can they even be considered a crucifix or a representation of the Passion of the Lord?<br />
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They look cartoonish!<br />
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They look like a doodle of a 2nd grader in one of his notes, done because of his boredom in class!<br />
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It might have probably come from the same "artist" who gave us the twisted wire crucifix. Probably.<br />
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What you have here folks is the continuing saga of the Japanese Catholics to have a decent looking crucifix in their churches and chapels.<br />
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62. Assuredly it is a wise and most laudable thing to return in spirit and affection to the sources of the sacred liturgy. For research in this field of study, by tracing it back to its origins, contributes valuable assistance towards a more thorough and careful investigation of the significance of feast-days, and of the meaning of the texts and sacred ceremonies employed on their occasion. <span style="color: red;">[Here the brilliant theologian-liturgist-diplomat Pope explains that the purpose of liturgical research is for the understanding of the texts and feast days and NOT how the Chupungcan liturgists have been doing it, telling us go back to how it was done in the catacombs!]</span> But it is neither wise nor laudable <b>to reduce everything to antiquity</b> by every possible device. Thus, to cite some instances, one would be straying from the straight path were he to wish the altar restored to its <b>primitive tableform</b>; <span style="color: red;">[No thanks to Vatican 2!]</span> were he<b> to want black excluded as a color for the liturgical vestments</b>; <span style="color: red;">[the GIRM does not exclude it yet liturgists frown upon it like a demon-possessed human seeing the crucifix!]</span> <b>were he to forbid the use of sacred images and statues in Churches</b>; <span style="color: red;">[do seminaries and retreat houses look like this? Oh, I remember! That Pyramid in Katipunan! And it was reportedly designed by the dean Filipino theologians!]</span> <b>were he to order the crucifix so designed that the divine Redeemer’s body shows no trace of His cruel sufferings</b>; and lastly were he to disdain and reject polyphonic music or singing in parts, even where it conforms to regulations issued by the Holy See. <span style="color: red;">[Thank the inculturated songs of Chupungco - Diwa - Francisco!]</span></blockquote>
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We have these images to remind us what happened.<br />
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Will the Passion of the Christ movie by Mel Gibson generated that much attention from both critics and moviegoers alike if it were less gory and violent? Will it evoke the emotion that a real crucifixion would have if it were less bloody?<br />
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How will you ever see the wounds brought about by our sins in this kind of crucifix?<br />
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How will you ever see how the Lord suffered if His Face is represented this way?<br />
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These kind of rubbish, childish art doesn't and should never ever have a place in our houses of worship, nor in any Catholic homes for that matter!<br />
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In fact, this kind of art belongs to those who do not want to see, reflect and be touched by the bitter Passion of the Savior!<br />
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<br />Pedro Lorenzo Ruizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06817125203522413704noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8918598045168602139.post-72023148983505261482015-11-24T12:46:00.000+08:002015-11-24T12:46:09.265+08:00Blame Fr. Diwa and other proponents of Communion in the Hand!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is a screengrab of the "performance artist's" (ring a bell? Yup. Carlita Celdran the tour gay of Intramuros.) Instagram account proudly showing his "art" in the form of the not-so-politically correct way of sending his message. He claims to have collected "242 pieces of consecrated hosts" which he used to place on the concrete pavement to spell "pederasty". You can read more about this <a href="http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/sacrilege-in-spain-over-200-consecrated-hosts-stolen-desecrated-for-art-exhibit-15364/" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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For the uninformed, Pederasty is the homosexual activity between a man and a pubescent or adolescent boy, or in today's language, before the age of consent. This became prominent in the 6th century especially in Athenian Greece. It was evidently a jab against the Catholic Church and the sex abuse scandal. It was evidently implying that there is a culture of pederasty in the Church.<br />
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To dissect this event we can look at it at both ways.<br />
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The Celdranite says that he was able to collect the hosts by attending Mass. If we put that in numbers, he would have at least attended every single Mass every day for a whole year to accomplish that. How would the hosts not deteriorated?<br />
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If he attended Mass 4 times in a day, it would have taken him at least 60 days to accomplish that collection. If that were the case, does this guy even have a real job? Or he does<br />
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Or it could be that these hosts are not actually consecrated and are just used for publicity.<br />
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Well, the "artist", the organizers and the City Council of Pamplona who allowed this to happen got the publicity they got as lawsuits left and right are filed against them.<br />
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Which now begs the question...<br />
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<b>Will this "collection" ever happen if Communion were distributed on the tongue?</b><br />
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News of host desecration, hosts being found under pews and on the floors of churches and chapels continue to abound.<br />
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And we have liturgists who flaunt their degrees and certificates in Liturgy but do not do anything against liturgical abuse?<br />
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I'd blame them for this!<br /><br />
I'd blame them for the continuing lost of the sens of the sacred of the people!<br />
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I'd blame them over and over again!<br />
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PS: And we have seminarians being trained this way!<br />
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If we have future priests like this, God save your Church!<br />
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<br />Pedro Lorenzo Ruizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06817125203522413704noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8918598045168602139.post-4855430981950455742015-10-16T11:01:00.003+08:002015-10-16T11:01:56.637+08:00Two popes speaking out against clapping inside a Catholic church<br />
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“I am very glad to have come here. <b>But if I must express a wish, it is that in church you not shout out, that you not clap your hands, and that you not greet even the Pope, because ‘templum Dei, templum Dei.</b>’ (‘The temple of God is the temple of God.’)<br />
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Now, if you are pleased to be in this beautiful church, you must know that the Pope is also pleased to see his children. But as soon as he sees his good children, he certainly does not clap his hands in their faces. And the one who stands before you is the Successor of St. Peter.” (St. John XXIII)</blockquote>
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In case you forgot, St. John XXIII was the pope who called that overly hyped Vatican Council II.<br />
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<br />Pedro Lorenzo Ruizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06817125203522413704noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8918598045168602139.post-47818679054340901822015-10-16T10:46:00.001+08:002015-10-16T10:46:41.501+08:00Something interesting seen in the Manila CathedralSee it?<br />
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This is a RARE sighting.<br />
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<br />Pedro Lorenzo Ruizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06817125203522413704noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8918598045168602139.post-3803403385033069212015-10-16T10:44:00.001+08:002015-10-16T10:44:37.360+08:00What every faithful Catholic MUST doOr what every baptized and CONFIRMED Catholics MUST do.<br />
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We have forgotten the grace the Sacrament of Confirmation confects upon our soul!<br />
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So when a priest forces you to commit a sin, CALL HIM OUT!<br />
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When a bishop teaches something not taught by Jesus Christ, ignore his teachings and point out his errors!<br />
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There are so many of our youth who are ill informed of what "alter Christus" means.<br />
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Some say we cannot and must not correct a priest because he is another Christ. How can you see Christ in a person who is FOUL MOUTHED, SLANDERER and ORIGINATOR OF MALICE, and CONTEMPT?<br />
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In other words, he is the CATHOLIC VERSION OF ELISEO SORIANO. Everything in Eliseo Soriano, just that he is Catholic.<br />
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Martin Luther was a priest. If you were alive during his time, you wouldn't dare correct him just because he is a priest?Pedro Lorenzo Ruizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06817125203522413704noreply@blogger.com0