GULP Alert: I almost fainted seeing this!

A friend from confirmed that this happened.

This happened during the #MillionPeopleMarch at the Luneta.

My friend said and I quote:

"there was a plan to say Mass indeed, and we were looking for some available picnic tables in the perimeter of the park, but they were all occupied.  The priest got tired of looking for a table and just laid the tarp and went to prepare for Mass.  Other priests with them did not join the Mass as concelebrants but helped in the distribution of communion....

Surprisingly, sans the portable altar or table, with the Mass celebrated on the concrete floor of the grandstand, the Mass was "solemn" and no unnecessary movements and noise around that you can even find in an ordinary Sunday Mass inside a church."

I asked him that the "solemnity" is still no excuse not to find a table or a flat surface other than the concrete street to celebrate the Mass.

A priest friend who saw this sent in his comments:

"What's this?  Zen Mass?  Was it necessary to have Mass celebrated at Luneta?  Radyo Veritas celebrated Mass.  Why did the priest not borrow the table used as an altar by Veritas?  Mass is offered on a consecrated altar.  That is the street for crying out loud!  Don't show me photos of priests celebrating on the hood of jeeps because those are war time photos!  The country is not in a state of war!  If there is a need to offer Mass for the intentions of the rally, why not celebrate it in a church or chapel or on a consecrated altar before joining the rally?  This priest really does not have a sense of the sacred!  Why do we even consecrate an altar in the first place???  The Mass is disrespected and we just do whatever we want to do with the Blessed Sacrament!  Lovely fruits of the liturgical reform of Vatican II!"

Well...

Can't blame him.

If the angel of Fatima did this in front of the Blessed Sacrament...

Then  we have this???

We have really lost the sense of the sacred.

You'll never see this thing happen in this form of the Mass.

I am not saying that this abuse is allowed under the current rubrics, but the inaction of our bishops to correct liturgical abuses legitimizes the abuse and makes it the norm rather than an aberration of the law.

But show me a TLM celebrated this way, under the same conditions in peace time, if you can show me one...I'll shut down this blog for a whole month!

Mark your dates! TLM of first Filipino FSSP priest!

TLM for Trinity Sunday

The TLM makes a comeback to Sto. Domingo....permanently!

More TLMs nearest you!  :)

I'll post TLM Mass schedules as soon as I get them.

In Thanksgiving...

You are all invited to the Missa Cantata of the Second Sunday of Lent in Thanksgiving for the Pontificate of Benedict XVI at 2:00 in the afternoon of 24 February 2013 at Holy Family Parish, Roxas District!

Ambrosian Rite!!!

Ecclesia Dei Society of St. Joseph - Una Voce Philippines is inviting everyone for a Traditional Latin Mass according to the AMBROSIAN RITE to be celebrated by Somascan priest, Fr. Molina from Milan, on February 1, 2013 (First Friday) 4PM at the Holy Family Parish Church, Roxas District, Quezon City.

If you want to see an Ambrosian Rite Mass, watch it here.

Mark your calendars!

I hope the ALMS storms Heaven with their prayers for conversion of their University!

RORATE MASS: Mark your calendars!

5 years and counting

It was in Sept. 14, 2005, when the whole world, and I mean the whole world, woke up to find the Traditional Latin Mass is now known as the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite and finally freed from the shackles of either ill-informed or simply paranoid schizophrenic bishops, yes there was a hint of sarcasm in there.  And oh oh oh!  I might forget.  A Benedictine monk who lost his job at Rome throwing a tantrum and liturgically controlling the Archbishops of Manila, yes with an "s", like they are his own marionette. The whole world, even non Roman Catholic and even non-Catholics, reacted to Summorum Pontificum.

Well, if there is nothing wrong with this form of Mass, WHY STILL PREVENT IT FROM BEING CELEBRATED OPENLY?

If you think, just like what the Benedictine monk and his protege keeps on saying, that the Traditional Latin Mass is only asked by the elderly and nostalgic, WHY ARE THE ATTENDEES OF THE TLM MOSTLY THOSE BORN AFTER VATICAN 2?

If you think the uneducated will never ever learn how to "actively participate" in a Mass with an unintelligible language like Latin, then WHY, DEAR BENEDICTINE MONK, DID YOU PRESSURE A LAY GROUP SPONSORING A TELEVISED MASS, AFTER THEY BROADCAST A TLM ON TV?

So to celebrate that time when Pope Benedict XVI in 2005 did the best thing as a PASTOR and not some swivel chair executive who just imagines the Mass he wants in his secluded hermitage down South (yeah because he got kicked out of Mendiola), I received this email for an important Mass on FRIDAY.

Latin Missa Cantata in the Extraordinary Form of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, in the presence of Arma Christi and the Relic of the True Cross, at 8pm on Friday, 14 September 2012 at Holy Family Parish Roxas District, Q.C,; and the 5th anniversary of the implementation of Summorum Pontificum. Everyone's invited!

Another Latin Mass!

From a TPC reader: An important Announcement: TLM in Agoo, La Union

From Laurence.......

"Bro...the community in Agoo will have their inauguration mass for the regular celebration of TLM to be officiated by Msgr Cosalan on Sept 8"

That is for the birthday celebration of the Blessed Virgin Mary!

As I have heard, this group is affiliated with Una Voce Philippines.

Am I right?t

Schedule of Latin Masses in Metro Manila

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And at Holy Family Parish Church in Roxas District, Quezon City every Sunday at 2:00PM.

I heard that the TLM there is getting more attendees and most of them are the YOUTH!

Latin dead language.........Bah!

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By the way, here is a note that came with the schedule.

After a period of recuperation from their illness, the Most Rev. Archbishop Pedro R. Dean, Bishop Emeritus of Palo, Leyte, and Rev. Msgr. Cesar Salomon, Vice Rector of the Shrine of St. Therese of the Child Jesus, will resume celebrating the Traditional Latin
Mass on the month of June, 2012. Let us pray for their continuous recovery and good health.

Archbishop Dean will resume being our priest celebrant for the 1st Saturdays of each month at Christ the King Parish-Greenmeadows, while Msgr. Salomon will share in the rotation of priest celebrants for our Sunday Holy Mass at the Chapel of the St. Therese Columbarium at Villamor Air Base.

Rev. Fr. Dominic Maria Lim, OFM Conv., Rector of St. Maximilian Seminary, is on leave for his annual visit to his family in Canada for the whole month of June. Rev. Fr. Felix Maria Duenas, FI, JCL,, Superior of the FI Mission House in Novaliches, will be taking on the schedule of Fr. Dominic in addition to his regular schedule in June.

Attached is our Traditional Latin Mass Schedule for the month of June.

Please continue to pray for our apostolate on the Traditional Latin Mass -- its continuity in celebration, promotion and propagation.

We continue to receive requests for training on how to celebrate the Traditional Latin Mass among priests in different parts of the country. Let's pray that we're able to accommodate their needs -- even if slowly, but surely!

Schedule of Traditional Latin Masses

Regular Masses at the Holy Family Parish in Roxas District, Quezon City also every Sunday at 2:00PM and at the Baptistry of the Pasig Cathedral every Sunday at 12:30PM.

Mark your calendars

Another TLM schedule

EF Mass Schedule

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The new home of the EF Mass in the Diocese of Cubao

This is the map of the Holy Family Parish Church where Traditional Latin Mass is regularly celebrated!

Weekdays and Saturdays EF Masses are every 8:30 A.M. The regular Sunday Missa Cantata is at 2:00 P.M.

This is also the home of the Societas Ecclesia Dei, Sancti Ioseph - Una Voce Philippines.

Canon Moreau at Holy Family Parish!

TLM Mass Schedules for December

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Regular Daily EF Mass at 8AM and Regular Sunday EF Mass every 2PM is at the Parish of the Lord of the Divine Mercy in Sikatuna Village, Quezon City.

Schedule of Latin Mass

Better late than never.