Look who was at South Korea to be with the Pope!

 

Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle together with 50 plus more Asian bishop met the Holy Father for a meeting at the Haemi Martyrs Shrine on August 17, 2014 in Haemi, South Korea.

He later joined the Mass at the World Cup stadium.


 

Sloppy Cardinal

He is the main celebrant, but his concelebrants vest relatively more properly than him.  If he can do this in Milan, why can he not do it in his own native land?

Cardinal Tagle and Altar Style

From the Facebook account of Fr. Garry Villanueva

Seen here is His Eminence, Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle offering Mass on an altar with a Benedictine Style altar arrangement, sans 6 candles. But that will do.

If this can be done if the Cardinal is not opposed to this, why then are the Liturgists of Manila so against it?

Baka kasi hindi sila makita pag sila ang nagmimisa? Or may hinahanap sila sa congregation pag nagmimisa, hindi nila makita pag nasa gitna ng altar si Kristo na nakapako sa Krus.

GOOOOODDD MORNINGGGGGGGG!

I do not see the need for saying 'good morning' and similar greetings when God's real presence in the Eucharist alone suffices.

Read more here: ‘Good morning’ in mass unnecessary - Tagle

Makikinig kaya sa kaniya ang mga pari?

Sana mauna sumunod ang Chancellor mismo ng Manila.

The Cathedral Basilica of Manila OPENS

The opening ceremony of the newly-renovated Cathedral Basilica of Manila will be on April 9, 2014, which is conveniently a holiday, at 2pm.

I am going to see both the newly restored Mother of all Churches in the metropolis, and to find out what kind of ambiance the so called BETTER Cathedral would use for the opening ceremonies.

Am tempted to bring popcorn like what I always do when I watch tear-jerker movies.

Better Manila Cathedral?

Professor Ferdinand Bautista gives us a glimpse of the brighter and bolder Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception.

According to an ABS-CBN online article, the renovated Cathedral is brighter and has 4 ambiance options.

They have turned the seat of the See of Manila into a theater!

And seeing the flat screen televisions in the picture above makes me cringe!

I think I know what will happen next: palayok censers, liturgical dancing, and more performances for the enjoyment of the faithful.

GULP: The color

What liturgical color are the stoles in?

Tell me, please.

PLEASE!

More photos of Cardinal Tagle in Milan's Duomo

More photos from the FB account of a Filipina working at Milan.  I forgot her name but I do not claim ownership of these photos.

 

 Here is another beautiful photo of the cardinal, not because he is wearing traditional vestments but because he is wearing the correct vestments.  See there, the dalmatic thing under the chasuble?  That is the pontifical dalmatic, worn by bishops over the stole and under the chasuble.  A bishop wears this in pontifical Masses which is the proper occasion for the cardinal in this case.  See that he is also wearing a white miter, not a green one, unlike most Filipino bishops when they are here in the Philippines.  Miters don't follow the liturgical color.   It is either gold, white or with semi-precious jewels.

Here is the cardinal seated on the throne of the archbishop.  He was given the permission to sit on the chair.  Here he is being welcomed by the dean (?) of the cathedral chapter who was also a concelebrant of the Mass.  I was told by someone that the Goggle liturgist commented that this was the Ambrosian Mass which is NOT.  Concelebration is not in the Ambrosian

And horror of horrors! Obviously a product of Filipinos in Milan.

Liturgical dancing is NOT liturgical!  It is an abuse!  It is an outrage!

Keep doing this to your children and they would think that the Mass is not a holy act but a social act, nothing different from a school program.

Swan Lake, next!

Cardinal Tagle wears traditional (and correct!) Mass vestments

(See the miter?  It is white which is liturgically correct.  Only HERE in the Philippines can you see a bishop wearing a red miter...........on Chinese New Year...........waving his hands like a conductor.......................during the entrance procession...............SAKIT SA ULO!)


Traditional...because it is the Roman pianeta.

Correct...because he is wearing a pontifical dalmatic.

Why did he wear those?

Was it because he was in Rome?

Nah.

Here is the answer.

BECAUSE FR. GENY DIWA AND FR. GODWIN TATLONGHARI ARE NOT IN CHARGE OF HIS MASS!

And the Jesuit Communications and Bukas Palad Ministry were not controlling his microphone.

(May angal ka Jeffrey Velasco?  The perpetually "professed" altar server na hindi tapos ang MA...)

Sheesh!

Morning rant.


PS:

See how beautiful those chasubles are?  Those kind are locked away in a closet or displayed in museums here in the Philippines.  Why?  Simplicity.  Oh really?  You want to use simple vestments in the worship of Almighty God while you lavish yourself with signature and designer items?

How much are all your belens Fr. Geny?

In the USA March for Life...

TEN THOUSAND people, 550 seminarians, 300 priests, 29 bishops, and 4 cardinals at the March for Life vigil mass...

While in the Philippines............

from the CBCP Website:  Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio G. Cardinal Tagle belts out a song during a fundraising concert at the Meralco Theater, December 12. Dubbed “Patron of the Arts, An Evening with the Cardinal”, the concert showcased the best of Filipino talents who have distinguished themselves through award-winning performances here and abroad. The concert was organized by Jesuit Communications Foundation to raise funds for the ongoing renovation of the Manila Metropolitan Cathedral.

So what's big about December 12, 2012, the night this photo of the cardinal was taken?

Now let the gangs of Katipunan lynch me.

When a lay woman remembers to "make" the sign of the cross when praying...

Watch how the woman invoked the holy name of the Blessed Trinity at the 16:27 mark.





And sadly, a young, famous and charismatic CATHOLIC Cardinal FORGETS to make the sign of the cross or even just mention the holy name of the Blessed Trinity.

Never.

Sad.

Very sad.

Maybe he doesn't want to OFFEND the people of other faiths by making the sign of the cross, no?

Because...when you express your faith, you offend other people?

That's what I heard.

An Evening with the Cardinal

On his 12th year as a bishop, and 2nd year as Archbishop of Manila, a fund-raising concert for the RCAM housing project.

Last year, it was for the Manila Cathedral's restoration.

Attract the tenderness of the Father

“In these times of suffering, never tire of asking why, because you will attract the tenderness of the Father... We cannot explain why things like this happen; there are so many things we cannot explain. When children start to grow up they don’t understand and ask their mums and dads so many questions. Psychologists call it the “why age”, they don’t wait to hear the answer but continue with other questions. Children need to feel their parent’s love and attention in that phase of insecurity they need the eyes and hearts of their parents... In these times of suffering, never tire of asking why, because you will attract the tenderness of the Father and his attention, just as children do when they ask “why”...In these times of suffering prayer is of even more help."

Pope Francis, Address to the Filipino community on the occasion of the blessing of the mural of 

Saint Pedro Calungsod, 21 November 2013

The Holy Father proposes the Rosary and Chaplet of Divine Mercy to end the Year of Faith.

The Holy Father as pharmacist prescribes "Misericordina"!  :)

Why not?

He represents the Wounded Healer here on Earth, doesn't he?

While the Holy Father recommended those, our very own crying cleric and his liturgical minions tried ending the Year of Faith by inviting pagans to invite to a god condemned by our Faith.

Ironic no?

Year of Faith ended with a Concert of Kumbaya.

Anywho....

Most of the liberals who were jumping up for joy for the Pope who I heard a "Spirit of Vatican II" priest say is a "breath of fresh air to two previous pontificates who are extremely restorationist", must be gnashing their teeth right now after Pope Francis, the Spiritual Pharmacist (love that tag) recommended two devotions as great prescriptions for a great and health spiritual life.

This is what was actually given to the pilgrims by the Pope.

Thanks to this blog for the photo.

And here is the close up of the box.



Expect enterprising individuals to be making these boxes in the coming days.


PS:

Oh, speaking of enterprising, did I tell you that an enterprising youth, posing as a tertiary Dominican and as a priest and as a......whatever, sold relic cards, and as an excuse for his ruse, called them "donations".  Donations for what???

Expect something by Wednesday.  ;)

If you read my Facebook posts, you know what I mean.

Misa ng Sambayang Pilipino: An Open Rebellion

I have always blogged against the Misa ng Sambayanang Pilipino (MSP) and have often said that this is an illicit form of the Mass, a Mass that is not even envisioned by the Council, but a Mass that Filipino bishops and liberal theologians and liturgists have tried to shove down our throats, demanding that we shut up and just obey.  What a way to demand obedience when they themselves have openly defied the Church for making us worship with a manner not recognized by the Holy See, with a manner not Catholic.

Yes folks, this is not just an issue of authority.  It is an issue of identity.

Catholics all around the world worship using one form of the Mass before Summorum Pontificum was released, making the Traditional Latin Mass available to those who are attached to it.  And so the Holy Father, Pope emeritus Benedict XVI, defined that there is still one Mass, with two forms, or expressions, the Ordinary Form, or the Missal of Paul VI, and the Extraordinary Form, which is the Missal of Blessed John XXIII.

But Filipino bishops and those tied to the leash of the liturgist the late Dom Anscar Chupungco, osb, and his minions, have continuously forced us to worship in a manner foreign to us, the MSP.

As you will read in the introduction in the Missal for the PCNE's MSP, all evidence points that this Mass did not get the approval of proper authorities.

So supporters would ask "Why would we even ask Imperial Rome for approval? We pray according to the promptings of the Holy Spirit!"

"Oh really?  Promptings?  That is why we need to have guides for the Mass?  Why Rome?  So who do we need to obey?  YOU?  Puhleaze!"

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Scholars at the Maryhill School of Theology [the heretical theology school and they are proud of it] took the first steps towards an inculturated Eucharistic celebration called Misa ng Bayang Pilipino. [Did you see any document of Vatican II calling for an inculturated Mass?  No.  And you won't be surprised by the actions of Fr. Chupungco and his minions why they hate the Traditional Latin Mass or a more reverent celebration, e.g. Ad orientem, of the Novus Ordo.  Why you'd ask?  Because the MSP's utter foolishness and heretical form would fall flat on its face for it's sheer stupidity! If my theories were not true, why do they keep banning the TLM in Manila even though the motu propio Summorum Pontificum is still in force?]

The project was undertaken under the direction of Fr. Anscar Chupungco, OSB. This Filipino adaptation of the rites and texts of the Roman Order of the Mass was presented for approval to the Sacred Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments on August 10, 1976.  [And since then...nada!  The Congregation did not give any approval.  As you will notice, the booklet will not even mention when the permit was given.  Nada!  Nothing!]

The Bishops of the Philippines gave their unanimous consent during their June 1976 meeting.  They began to “research on Filipino values and cultural expressions and on the possibility of incorporating into the Roman Mass those elements which could be pastorally useful and necessary.”  [ Pastorally useful???  You made the Mass like your own jigsaw puzzle??  People are scandalized and you call it pastorally useful??  And still no approval from Rome!]

Through dynamic equivalence, [ah!  the favorite terms of Fr. Chupungco!  What was used in the new Missal was formal equivalence as opposed to dynamic equivalence (DE).  We had DE in the old translation of the Missal that is why we had problems with it.  So, the Holy See decreed that it be changed and that formal equivalence be used in the translation.  So what do you expect?  DE champ Chupungco got all mad!  Duh.] the spiritual and doctrinal wealth of the Roman Order of the Mass are communicated to the Filipino Catholic faithful with the use of language, gestures and symbols culled from the Filipino pattern of thought, speech and behavior....[the wealth of the Roman Order of the Mass?  How can you even speak of Roman when the Mass is anything but Roman?  No wealth to communicate whatsoever!!!]

On December 7, 1979, the Misa ng Bayang Pilipino was celebrated for the first time by Cardinal Sin on the occasion of the International Mission Congress held in Manila.  [They still cannot give a date for the approval, just like Communion in the Hand.  No approval for the Philippines.  Nothing!]

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As you will read in some of the comments in this post and this post, many are SCANDALIZED.

I guess not even the scandal that this "mass" created can even make Cardinal Tagle cry, even though how easily he cries as he admitted.

Happy days are back again in Manila.

Kumbaya!  Strum the guitar, and beat the drums!

We are more Protestant than we are more Catholic!

When we lose our sense of identity as Catholics, when we become too mushy and too accommodating, when we think more like Protestants than Catholics, what do you expect we'll become?

Yes, that's it.

Lose the Faith.

And what a perfect way to cause scandal and make people lose their faiths, no?  At a conference named "Philippine Conference on the New Evangelization".

Those in UST, I am very sorry for you.  I am sure the PR gangs of Katipunan and the minions surrounding the cardinal all bullied you into obedience for this horrendous way of saying the Mass.

Misa ng Samabayang Pilipino, anything but a Mass, anything but Filipino.

SIMPLY SCANDALOUS!  Oh...and idiotic as well.

Let's do an open rebellion of ourselves...

Or the next time you know that the MSP will be celebrated.  Attend!

Then when the entrance procession starts, leave!

The "Mass" has not started and you are not sinning.  If you even participate in this kind of "mass", you'd be sinning more.


PS:  I am pretty sure blood pressures are rising and eyebrows rising.  Hello Professional Chupungcan Altar Servers!

Of course, you'd be disappointed by this post!  You'll lose your position of authority, fame and fortune if we do away with the MSP!

Fr. Chupungco did a lot of harm for the Church.  He did.  Pray for him.

Overheard at the PCNE

The Cardinal talking to those attending the PCNE, most of whom are high school students from Catholic schools in Manila, who have no idea what is going on...

"We have here 6,000 strong missionaries..."

The place has a 5,792 seating capacity......

#Anyare????

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!

Celdran had a great time doing this

For some ego maniac like, Celdran, that hurts.

And then you can see the whining go on.

Actually, when I saw this photo, I was not surprised at all.

Publicity whore will remain publicity whore.

And then he has the audacity to tell a good Catholic how to be actually a good Catholic.

Like a Christian missionary in Mindanao teaching a Muslim how to be a good Muslim.

To wrap up, this was my first impression when I saw the photo.

The blocking of Celdran and the cardinal was impeccable.

And the colors too!

Super like this, plain and simple.

Breaking News: RCAM failed to report this!

Either the same sloppy guys who run the RCAM website are still, well, sloppy...

Or they simply don't care at all!

Anywho, let the lowly blogger name The Pinoy Catholic who goes by the REAL name Pedro Lorenzo Ruiz, share this story to all you dear folks.

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Vatican City, 10 June 2013 (VIS) – The Office of Liturgical Celebrations of the Supreme Pontiff today announced that this coming Saturday, 15 June, at 6:30pm, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, archbishop of Manila, Philippines, will take possession of the title of San Felice da Cantalice a Centocelle in Piazza San Felice da Cantalice, 20.

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This is the same church that Cardinal Tagle went to and celebrated Mass before the latest papal conclave but he hasn't formally taken possession yet of his cardinatial church.

The Latin inscription reads "To God, most good, most great. In Honour of St Felix of Cantalice. Year of Our Lord, 1935"

Deo Optimo Maximo is sometimes abbreviated as D.O.M. and you see this sometimes in old niches and tombs.

That's what DOM stands for...

No not the other one...

GULP Alert: And when you thought the dancing had stopped...

Witnessed by the archbishop who came it a highly praised and expected POPE, who came out a cardinal, as I prayed and expected.

Seems nobody cares what the liturgy really IS.

Ironic to see these youth wear a shirt with THAT print on.

If you want to dance, DO IT OUTSIDE OF MASS!

Do it until you get tired.

Why bother the Mass, which the Church strictly forbids the use of any of these shenanigans?

I'd tell you why.

CAPTURED AUDIENCE.

Because nobody will watch these crappy "production numbers" outside of Mass even if it were held in classy auditoriums or hotel ballrooms, for FREE!