Look who celebrated Mass ad orientem

This is Most Reverend Colin Bagaforo, auxiliary bishop of Cotabato, celebrating the Mass ad orientem / ad Deum at the Santa Maria della Grazie in San Giovanni Rotondo.

Sense of the Sacred.

GULP Alert: There are a lot of wrong things here

When priests treat the Holy Mass like this, how would you expect the ordinary layman, the ordinary guy in the pew who has had no education or catechism at all, to respect the Mass?

Is this your perfect way of promoting the sense of holiness dear Reverend Fathers?

The Academy Awards have more formalities than the Mass which is the "source and summit" of Christian Life.

Whenever you have priests acting this way, don't expect people to know the word "holy", "respect", "formal".

Who wants to be a millionaire???

NO.  This ain't the show.

This is actually the "sanctuary" and altar for the Philippine Conference on the New Evangelization  at the UST

How you can even convince lukewarm Catholics to spread the Gospel with a set-up that looks more like a game show than a Catholic sanctuary is beyond me.

As I said before...

P.C.N.E. is F.L.O.P.

We have lost the sense of the sacred.

Sadly...........tragically.

SO.............do you want to phone a friend?

"Hello, I have just witnessed a grave liturgical abuse committed...."

"RCAM did what???"

From the PCNE: A troubling photo

NO, not the cheering for the caracol.

Can you see how happy the gang is for the illegal Misa ng Sambayanang Pilipino?

A rite or "expression" or version of the Mass NOT APPROVED or NOT RECOGNIZED by the Holy See, a prerequisite before it can be celebrated?

The Chupungcan Mass is ILLEGAL.

Then why are they celebrating it even though there is no recognitio from Rome?

But when it comes to the approved Extraordinary Form of the Mass aka Traditional Latin Mass, the Archdiocese of Manila is NOTORIOUSLY against it, all for the stupid reason of....well, just read it here.  And read how it was analyzed and decimated.

Can you spot it?

Post it here, not in the FB page of TPC.

Clue:  Have we really lost respect for the sacred?

Oh, my beloved archdiocese?

What has happened to you?

You are led by liturgical experts who are so over their heads!

Chupungcans!

BRAZEN THEFT OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT!!!

Nah. His name is not Robby Okol.

Here is the transcript of the video

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It was a brazen, and blasphemous crime. A Catholic community in northern New Mexico is beside itself after a man burst into the adoration chapel at Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church, and stole something very precious to them.

The priest at Sacred Heart told News 13 this is the highest form of desecration he's seen. He made a plea to the burglar Tuesday afternoon before police arrested the suspect.

It's meant for prayer, a place of peace, open 24/7. So, when a man walked into the adoration chapel at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Española on Monday afternoon, the two people in there praying couldn't believe what he did.

"There is something so precious to us as Catholics that he has taken, and that is the Eucharist," explained Father Vitus Ezeiruaku, of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church.

The suspect police later identified as Isaac Morfin, made a b-line for the monstrance, which holds the Eucharist, then ran out the door, dropping part of it in the parking lot.

"We believe that Jesus is holy and entire in humanity and divinity, present in the holy Eucharist," explained Father Ezeiruaku. "So it means everything to us."

Detective  Solomon Romero of the Española Police Department said, ""We do believe that this individual may have been inside the chapel the day before, maybe looking at it or coming up with some sort of plan."

One worshiper followed the suspect around the corner, but the suspect got away.

Parishioners have had a hard time dealing with the crime.

"It is not just the Catholic Church alone, but this entire community, not just the parish alone, but the entire community, who see this as a place of refuge," explained Father Ezeiruaku.

"It's a small community, it's predominantly Catholic, it's extremely upsetting," added Detective Romero.

On Tuesday afternoon, police conducted a search warrant, and arrested 39-year-old Morfin for burglary and larceny.

"What he did is more than what he thinks, because he has touched the center of our belief, the center of our worship," said Ezeiruaku.

Before the arrest, the priest made a plea to the burglar.

"If he can find it in his heart to consider this community in pain and bring back what he has taken, I believe God's mercy follows him, and he will know the peace of God that he gives to those who say, Lord I am sorry."

Española police told News 13 late Tuesday afternoon the stolen monstrance and the Eucharist were recovered at Morfin's home. The monstrance suffered minor damage.
   
It's still unclear what the motive was for stealing it. Online court records show Morfin has a criminal record dating back more than a decade. The church had mass at 4 p.m. and a mass of atonement at 5:30 Tuesday. [That is done after a desecration had been done.  Before the liturgical revolt, public penance and atonement was REALLLY an act of penance and atonement for the entire parish.  But now.  Well....kumbaya!]

The Eucharist will be put back and the adoration chapel is still open.

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See the wisdom why there were communion rails before?

And even though Vatican II did not mandate the destruction or removal of altar rails, they were removed for no apparent reason at all!  All in the name of modernity and the alleged spirit of Vatican II!

Again...contributing to the loss of the sense of the sacred.

I hope the church does something drastic to prevent this theft, life putting the monstrance behind iron grates or glass doors, etc.  This has been done here in some adoration chapels in the Philippines.

If this guy is a Catholic, then he must make to face a church tribunal for his crime.

But......will the OTHER guy who took home the Eucharist be disciplined by the Church?

Still waiting.

The Blessed Sacrament: if we only knew the great treasure we have

A new book by my favorite bishop on the Eucharist emphasizes the need to be aware of the great mystery and treasure we have right in front of us, in the tabernacle.  If we only knew, then we would behave properly.


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Vatican City, Oct 8, 2013 / 04:39 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Bishop Athanasius Schneider has recently published his second book on Eucharistic devotion in the hopes that it will foster greater reverence for the sacrament amongst the faithful of his diocese.

“It is necessary to give a good catechism on what the Eucharist is because we have to be aware of it. Jesus said to the Samaritan woman 'if you knew the gift of God,'” the bishop said in a Sept. 27 interview with CNA.  [I believe this to be so.  I can see why people have lost the awe and reverence to the Eucharist because of our pastors dismal failure to catechize the laity after the "new Pentecost" promised by the Council. Not!]

Bishop Schneider, whose most recent book “Corpus Christi - Holy Communion and the Renewal of the Church” was published earlier this year, is the auxiliary bishop of Kazakhstan in Central Asia – a country whose religious population is roughly seventy percent Muslim, and thirty percent Christian.

During the interview, the bishop expressed the great need to be more reverent in the way that the Eucharist is treated, explaining that the aim of both of his books is to increase respect of the Sacrament, especially amongst the faithful in his diocese.

Bishop Schneider distributing Holy Communion...the BEST WAY! (Photo courtesy of Orbis Catholicus Secundus)

“If people only knew the greatness of the Eucharist. We have to stress its greatness in  homilies and in catechism,” he said.  [if priests only knew the great work they do...]

“When I recognize all the richness and deepness and divinity of the Eucharist of the Lamb of God, before whom the angels prostrate themselves in heaven – as we read in the Apocalypse – then I also have this spontaneous, natural desire to prostrate myself when I receive Him.”  [FTW!!!!  But with that we instead do this...click here.]

The bishop voiced his perspective that the Eucharist ought to be received in the mouth only, explaining that the tradition of receiving the Host in one’s hand “never existed in the Church,” and was “was invented by Calvinists in the seventeenth century,” but was not present in the first centuries.  [Communion in the hand is an invention as a statement of disbelief and therefore of disrespect!]

“There was communion received in the hand but in a totally different manner and I explain this in my second book (Corpus Christi).”

Referencing the lack of true devotion present in the attitudes of many in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament, Bishop Schneider urged that “only when we try to cure this wound of the Eucharist, only then we will have a real and stable renewal of the Church. A springtime.”


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The "super-dogma" Sacrosanctum Concilium called the Eucharist the "summit and source of christian life".

If that is so, then why we still have liturgical nonsense happening every Sunday and every Fiesta?

Why we still have the circus every Sunday live on TV?

I think we should all watch this.



Take note.

At the 13:56 mark, the great bishop called them "infidels".

So much for ecumenical mushy kumbaya politically correct language, no?

Ha!

And so since we are aware of the Sense of the Sacred, we have this at our Sunday Mass, regularly.

Hit it Fr. Mario!






Check out the batallion of EMHCs.

And the regular Sunday Tambourine Dancers.

Classy!

WE HAVE LOST RESPECT FOR THE HOLY OF HOLIES!

In the name of freedom...

And I guess some priests would even call this the primacy of conscience, no?

Read this disturbing article where a Swedish court allows public masturbation, with caveat though...as long as you are not directing "it" towards others!

So what's next?

Public sex since the two people doing it are not directing it towards other people?

This is what happens when we lose the sense of civility of what is sacred.

When what we care about is just our own rights!

What is happening to the world?

Pray and fast!

The message of our Lady of Fatima rings more importantly now more than ever!

When you treat the altar like this

This is not just any place.

This is the Holy of Holies.

This is the "table" where relics of the saints, especially martyrs are "buried"

This is the "table" where Calvary is made present again.

And this is the place where this priest decides to say "thank you" by performing a song for his parishioners.

No connection to the Mass whatsoever, but he just decides to use the Altar, like it were any kind of surface.

He used the sanctuary, like it were his own stage.

How do you expect people to respect the church, to genuflect when entering or leaving the church, to sit silently when waiting for the Mass to start, when you have priests, priest of our Lord Jesus Christ, acting as if there is nothing special, nothing holy about the place.

Did Christ treat the Temple like this during His days on earth?

If you are so itching to do that thank you song number, Fr. Zabala, why not do it in a stage outside your parish church?  Why do it in the sanctuary, and on the altar????

Why???  WHY???

Baclaran Church CCP scandal part 2

And if blood pressures were raised with a photograph...

Wait till you watch this!

I had to suffer so much!



Here is the thing.

Nobody goes to the CCP anymore, so the CCP went to the people.

Cool.

They chose a holy place to do a secular act.

Not cool.

The National Shrine is reserved for religious matters, not secular ones.

Remember, this is the same CCP that hosted an exhibit of trash, pasted together, and called art, desecrated images of the Lord and our Lady and called freedom of expression.

Whoever is the Redemptorist who willingly collaborated in this one should get disciplined!

This is outrageous and causes serious scandal among the faithful!

Nobody, not even the ordained, care about what is sacred space and what is not!

We have lost the concept and idea and feeling for the SACRED.

No wonder even some priests don't get why the Church is against contraception and homosexual unions.

No wonder they silently promote it.

No wonder.

When you don't treat the church as a sacred place...

And when you think you just can do whatever you want, whenever you want it, just to get attention

That is what this joker did.

And that is the concept of a Flash Mob.

As they say in publicity and PR circles..."Any publicity is GOOD publicity."

And that is what they only cared for.

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MANILA – Months after surprising passengers at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport, members of the Cultural Center of the Philippines staged another flash mob performance, this time inside the iconic Baclaran Church.  [And for what?!]

Headed by the Philippine Madrigal Singers, more than 300 choir members sang and danced to Ryan Cayabyab’s “Hibang sa Awit” after the Wednesday noon mass inside the church.  [People were still praying....and they went HIBANG, which means MAD.  Boy, if I were there!]

CCP artistic director Chris Millado said the performance, which he referred to as a “random act of culture,” is aimed at making “art matter to every Filipino.”  [First of all, a flash mob is not random.  It is a planned publicity stunt.  Second, disrupting people while they are still praying is not a sign of someone "cultured".  Third, doing this cheap act in a sacred place is not for someone CULTURED!]

The flash mob also marked CCP’s 44th anniversary.  [They just showed people how to be cheap.  The leader of the Madz died and they went with this.  Just so you know how we missed her so much.]

“In the wake of yet another scandal that has ravaged the nation, artists once again persist in picking up the shreds of our dignity and sing with hopefulness that all Filipinos finally get the graceful lives they deserve,” Millado said in a statement, referring to the multi-billion peso pork barrel scam involving non-government organizations and lawmakers.  [This is neither graceful nor what we deserve.  The national shrine is not the place to do this stupid thing!  If you want to pick up the shreds of our dignity and sing with hopefulness, go to the Senate or to the House of Thieves in Batasan.  Go to the slum of Payatas and sing there!  Not in the CHURCH!  That damn write up just came from the books of "How to write a bad press statement for a BAD publicity stunt". ]

In October last year, members of the CCP and the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra performed “William Tell Overture,” a “Sound of Music” medley, and “Kay Ganda ng Ating Musika” at the airport. [But why a church?!]

“Gusto naming imulat sa mga Filipino ang importansiya ng cultural music. Aminin natin na masyado na tayong inclined sa pop music,” CCP president Raul Sunico told ABS-CBN News in a previous interview.
[Cultural music??? In a church???  If I can get my hands on that Redemptorist!!!]

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Would you think they'd do the same let's say in a court of law, or in the halls of parliament, or even in Malacanang?

Let's try doing it in their own homes, huh?

Of course, they'd get mad, the government officials and those who own their homes.

It's an invasion of privacy!  A SACRED thing for these people, but not the HOUSE OF GOD!

We have lost THE SENSE OF THE SACRED and that is why we just do whatever we want whenever we want it just to get the attention.

Right, Celdran?

And this time, we had a Redemptorist priest to join them in this nonsense!

DO IT OUTSIDE THE CHURCH FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!!!