Snarky, idiotic, anti-clerical post from the former Chairman of the National Historical Institute

Ambeth Ocampo was the former chairman of the National Historical Institute and the National Commission for the Culture and the Arts.  He is a historian and an academician.

But this kind of a clear and obvious anti-clerical comment on his Facebook account just shows his real colors.

Maybe next time, he'll recommend those going to the vin d'honneur at Malacanang to dress in their shorts and bikinis!

Can he even show any proof that the Church even wanted all women to wear veils and men to wear tunics like those in sacred images.

Does wearing the write dress for the right occasion a medieval thing nowadays?

Does decency and propriety not in the books of the National Commission for CULTURE and the Arts?


PS:  He must be thinking of the cosplayers and adult perpetually obsessed to serve as Altar Boys/MC for eternity guys.

No.  Catholic bishops and priests and even the laity just want to return decency and propriety when dressing for the church.

Can he even make that same stupid sanrky remark agains the Mormons and the Iglesia ni Cristo version ni Manalo?

He wouldn't dare get a visit from the private armies of Manalo, no?

GULP Alert: Was it of utmost urgency to celebrate the Holy Mass here?

And on that bird cage, or whatever?

I have this nasty vision of seeing the Bee Gees as the choir...

And John Travolta doing some liturgical dance.

That is Christoph Cardinal Schonborn of Vienna.

Ain't he such a peach for traditionalist Catholics?

And...what are those on top of the, uhm..."altar"?

Anybody know where this was held?

Holy Week in a 1 minute video

Post by Catholics Know The Answer.

Why the INC hates the cross?

Almost all Christian denominations, save for the Mormon Church, which the INCM (Iglesia ni Cristo ni Manalo) has copied in doctrine and practice, use the cross as the symbol the church...

Makes you wonder what is in the cross that the INCM is afraid of.

This meme found in an FB group captures it EXCELLENTLY.

Kudos to the one who designed this!

Was that INC Walk for Yolanda really for typhoon victims?

A true story of NEU student on WWW experience. Another twisted Idea of INC...

Is it for YOLANDA victims really or for the FAME??? Why an attempt to GENUINENESS World of Record?

Here is here story:

"I just want to share the experience I had yesterday at WWW (World Wide Walk), you may post this. But please, don't include my name. I just want everyone to be aware I know about INC. I'm not saying this to defame them, but I just want to be transparent to others. It's something I realized and been thinking of since yesterday after I got home from WWW. I'm a student from NEU. Yes, I walked yesterday. But, it's not because I want to be part of the WWW. Of course, I want to help the Yolanda victims in any way that I can. So, I talked to my INC classmate to buy me a shirt. If all of the proceeds of the WWW event, buying a P100 shirt is enough. But in our NSTP class, it's compulsory to attend. Because they're giving merits to those who attend. It's unfair, indeed. If the purpose of the event is to help the Yolanda victims, then why do they require us---students, to go to the event. In fact, there is tarpaulin in the event that says "an attempt to Guiness World Records", why would they put it there? Why not "an attempt to feed 100k families or whatever". I've been hurt of what I saw on the news feed. She was asked about the picture of the WWW event, then she said, "opo sa Iglesia po". It's just that they are thanking all of the INC, what about the non-INC who participated and just want to help the typhoon victims? They aren't being recognized. I know that if ever the non-INCs will not participate, they might still the Guiness. But, I think they should not only thank the INC, but also thank all those who participated."

Para sa PERA at DANGAL, Bakit?


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Why am I not surprised?

A "church" founded on lies, will survive on lies and will crumble when TRUTH comes back at them.

You may have the Guinness record every time you want it INC.

You may not have our souls!

Dalai Lama photographed praying in front of Sacred Heart icon

"He is converting!"

Woo hoo!!

Yehey!!!

Or is he?

I don't want to be a party-pooper here but here is the thing, ok?

The Dalai Lama is BUDDHIST.

Buddhists believe in reincarnation.

The Dalai Lama believes and so his followers, that he is the reincarnation of Gautama Buddha.

AND!.............that good people like Jesus Christ are manifestations or reincarnations of the same Buddha.

Call it the AVATAR.

Get it?

He is respecting his past life.

I gotta see the Dalai Lama bend over the baptistry of the Sistine Chapel and the pope pours water on his head...

Then!

I CAN JUMP FOR JOY...

And post it on my Facebook account.

So?  What now?

WILL YOU STILL MAKE POSTS IMPLYING THE DALAI LAMA IS CONVERTING?

Hey!  It's your Facebook account.  You have freedom!....to be laughed at.

Nah.

Haiyan-damaged INC chapel

Anyare?



They kept bragging that they were invulnerable to disasters because their spaceships are protected by God and that they are the chosen religion, ergo, they are invulnerable.

Anyare? (in English.........Wha happen'?"

This I am sure.

"Donation" asking will double..........BIG TIME.

Poor members...

The Catholic Church does not threaten members with excommunication for not giving money to the Church.

This I am sure.


PS:  Thanks to Donya Ina Mo for the photo.

When an atheist tries to be smart against an exorcist

This is a classic discourse and I asked Fr. Zerrudo's permission to share this.

Thanks to my nephew RJ for the screencap.  :)

Atheists like this smart-aleck guy think everything is like the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus.

But when they are confronted with the grim reality that they too will die, and they too will have to face something in the other side, a reality that their brains never ever comprehended, spooks them to, well, DEATH.  (pun intended).

And when they got confronted with the reality that atheists like them are actually under the influence of their "imaginary" hero the Devil, they get stumped!

Next time you debate an atheist, tell them that even if they do not believe in the Devil, the Devil believes in them, in fact, they own him!

Pray for these misguided atheists.

They think that reasoning with logic and science, their own gods, makes them cool.  And that fighting the Catholic Church is cooler.

Kudos to Fr. Jojo Zerrudo for sharing his experience.

He stared the Devil in the eye, so he knows what he is talking about.

PS:  That atheist student who hates the Catholic Church studies in a Catholic university.  Ironic?  No.  I'd like to call it idiotic for someone who worship Knowledge and Freethinking.

The INC kept on bragging after Typhoon Yolanda/Haiyan

And look at their chapel.

Destroyed as well by the super typhoon.

So much for the "indestructible" claim huh?

And the INC said they were spared from the earthquake...

A shoutout to Ric Anthony Reyes for the photos of the cracked chapels, ala GULP style.  :)


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Because they are the "true" religion, as they reasoned.

Weh?

Cracks in the Manalo Starship Enterprise are obvious.

One of the rocket ships lost its antenna.  Guess the "true religion" insurance policy failed, no?

And my favorite one of all...

Crash landed even before it could leave Planet Earth.

"Houston we have a problem"
"Kapatid, nasa Commonwealth ang homebase!"

PS:  This is no joke.  INC ministers preach that come Judgment Day, salvation will be in their chapels and these chapels with the "saved"  INC members will be transported to heaven during the Rapture.

Yup.  Seriously.

It's in their own Bible....unpublished.

The INC is a religion of the insensitive and inhuman!

Thank you INC.

This is the best way to get new members.

This just proves that you are anything but Christian.

Expertise of the Filipino Freethinkers needed for this one

Since they are all about the BRAIN.

And since they are so very good about logic, science and mathematics.

Can you explain this?

Why that statue did not suffer any damage?

Why did that glass frame remained undamaged?

Let' see you use your brain for this one.

Call for Equality: For the nuns of St. Vincent School of Theology, Euntes, Maryhill School of Theology...

And all feminists who have a very bad relationship with a father figure...

I DARE YOU!

Call Satan a Woman!

Time for equality

New sign to be installed at Catholic Churches in the Philippines???

So that priests would not use the lame excuse of "Purihin natin ang Panginoon!" or "Palakpakan natin ang Panginoon!" or "Praise the Lord" just to get the people to clap at their lousy and boring homilies, or find an excuse to cheer the poor girls who just danced at the singing of the Gloria.

Yeah, the oldies do that every Sunday at the Mass of Fr. Mario "Swswswswshhh" SOBREjuanite, SSP at Megamall.

And I guess this sign would just go on every time Mass is over.

Boy, are the people so happy that Mass is over they'd rather clap their hands rather than pray the Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel and leave the church in silence.

Anywho, has your parish even started praying the Prayer to St. Michael every end of the Mass?

I guess not!

GULP Alert: WHY COMMUNION IN THE HAND MUST BE STOPPED!

This is a grave liturgical abuse!

In fact it is sacrilegious!

I'll let his status updates speak for themselves.

My bishop/priest friends who regularly read the blog would need to comment on this...badly!

For Non-English speakers, here is the gist...

1. He took home a consecrated host after being reminded of the two priest to take "Jesus home" using a white cloth presumably either a corporal or purificator.
2.  He kept it overnight at his home for his own vigil.
3.  No one knows what he did to Him afterwards.

Redemptionis Sacramentum states:

[132.] No one may carry the Most Holy Eucharist to his or her home, or to any other place contrary to the norm of law. It should also be borne in mind that removing or retaining the consecrated species for a sacrilegious purpose or casting them away are graviora delicta, the absolution of which is reserved to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

Code of Canon Law:

Can.  935 No one is permitted to keep the Eucharist on one’s person or to carry it around, unless pastoral necessity urges it and the prescripts of the diocesan bishop are observed.

Can. 1367 A person who throws away the consecrated species or takes or retains them for a sacrilegious purpose incurs a latae sententiae excommunication reserved to the Apostolic See; moreover, a cleric can be punished with another penalty, not excluding dismissal from the clerical state.

Did he take the Host for sacrilegious purposes?  We don't know.  But this we do.  HE TOOK HIM HOME!

This is against Church law as I have stated here and he must be made aware of what he has done.

I advise him to go see the Cardinal Archbishop of Manila, if he really lives within the territorial jurisdiction of the Archdiocese.

Whoever Fr. Jek and Fr. Gener are...you two are also in a lot of trouble!

And you, Fr. Diwa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is the perfect example why we need to STOP COMMUNION IN THE HAND!!!

It has created more problems and scandal for the Church!

If you are pastorally sensitive as you always put it in your documents Fr. Diwa, then in God's name, you are bound by the duties and responsibilities of the Sacrament of Holy Orders conferred upon you, to act against this sacrilege!

STOP COMMUNION IN THE HAND!

The hypocrisy of the Iglesia ni Cristo

Where is stated in the Bible that when ordaining, the one being ordained should kneel?

The Iglesia ni Cristo is nothing but an organization full of lies, deceits and greed for power and money.

AKA...........the biggest Masonic Lodge of the EARTH!

100 years of fraud and deceit.

Source: page A10, Philippine Daily Inquirer. 27 July 2013

Will Msgr. Arnel Lagarejos protest this?

Dress code sign in the Vatican

Will any of those people tell the Pope, that what is important is in the heart and not the dress!

Now if there is a dress code when simply entering a sacred place for just being a tourist, why won't there be any dress code when you attend a HOLY EVENT?

Huh?

Are you still looking for excuses?

A monsignor got it all wrong about dressing modestly...

...for Mass!

Msgr. Arnel F. Lagarejos, Oeconomus of the Diocese of Antipolo, Parish Priest at Our Lady of Light Parish. And that is a screen cap of his post on his Facebook account.

Now here is the entire text that Msgr. Lagarejos quoted, albeit out of context:

1Sam.16
[1]The LORD said to Samuel, "How long will you grieve over Saul, seeing I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go; I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for myself a king among his sons."

[2] And Samuel said, "How can I go? If Saul hears it, he will kill me." And the LORD said, "Take a heifer with you, and say, `I have come to sacrifice to the LORD.'
[3] And invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do; and you shall anoint for me him whom I name to you."
[4] Samuel did what the LORD commanded, and came to Bethlehem. The elders of the city came to meet him trembling, and said, "Do you come peaceably?"
[5] And he said, "Peaceably; I have come to sacrifice to the LORD; consecrate yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice." And he consecrated Jesse and his sons, and invited them to the sacrifice.
[6]When they came, he looked on Eli'ab and thought, "Surely the LORD'S anointed is before him."

[7] But the LORD said to Samuel, "Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for the LORD sees not as man sees; man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart."
[8] Then Jesse called Abin'adab, and made him pass before Samuel. And he said, "Neither has the LORD chosen this one."
[9] Then Jesse made Shammah pass by. And he said, "Neither has the LORD chosen this one."
[10] And Jesse made seven of his sons pass before Samuel. And Samuel said to Jesse, "The LORD has not chosen these."
[11] And Samuel said to Jesse, "Are all your sons here?" And he said, "There remains yet the youngest, but behold, he is keeping the sheep." And Samuel said to Jesse, "Send and fetch him; for we will not sit down till he comes here."
[12] And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and had beautiful eyes, and was handsome. And the LORD said, "Arise, anoint him; for this is he."
[13] Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brothers; and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon David from that day forward. And Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah. 

The passage talks about the choosing of the new king of Israel.  The Lord instructed Samuel to anoint one of the sons of Jesse, who we know as David.  And his instruction to choosing David was what the monsignor cited.

QUESTION: Was the Lord even talking about dressing up for worship?

Plain and simple the answer is NO.

The Lord reminded Samuel that he chose David not because of his looks but because of his heart, something which in not in Saul anymore, that is why the Lord chose David to be the new anointed king.

When you read some of the comments in the monsignor's post, they were even talking about what is in the heart is more important.

Goodness me!

Well of course, they'd draw a conclusion from that simply because the monsignor was implying that!

Which leads me to ask:  Are we are even talking about what is in the heart?!

Remember people.  FOCUS.

Topic is about properly dressing for Mass.

Who what was the talk about what is in the heart?

So sinners are not allowed to go to the Lord at Mass???

While he did quote something from the Bible, I think the monsignor does not even want to talk about what St. Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 11:2-16 about headcoverings for women while worshiping and how to dress modesty as stated in 1 Timothy 2:9.

Yeah I think he forgot about those.

He stuck to the Old Testament quotation that is obviously taken WAAAAYYY out of context.

Oooh!  He forgot about the rigid rules about garments in Leviticus.

Take a look at the poster once again.

The poster does not even say it is a requirement.  It is a catechesis to teach people to dress properly.

I have lamented about this in my numerous posts in the past as it became one of those usual parish announcements in the parish billboard that get flooded.  I always thought that for an effective catechism to work, printed materials are not enough.  We need someone to do the actual TALKING for the posters.  Posting them just aint enough.

You know what sets us apart from the other denominations and sects like the Iglesia ni Manalo?

They know when to dress properly.  The members are "forced" of course, but they have been properly taught as told to me by my INM friends and they know the biblical texts and even surprisingly practical reasons why they should dress properly when worshiping.  After the 70s, there is no such thing as a Sunday's best anymore.

Dear monsignor, was the Church forcing the issue of properly dressing up for Mass?

Or all this talk about proper decorum boils down to this: ETIQUETTE.

Is it a rare commodity these days?

Here is photo from Orbis Catholicus Secundus.  It is a sign in a chapel in Rome.  This is just a simple sign but it says a lot.  Imagine the RCAM poster even has illustrations on what is proper and what is not.

What bothers me is the monsignor would definitely be sending the wrong signal by publicly posting his opposition to the simple reminder to dress modestly when going to church.  It is a different story if he just refuses to post it.

He publicly criticized the catechetical poster by quoting a Biblical text OUT OF CONTEXT.

What does he expect to get out of it?

More people of good heart to come to church?  I think people of good heart, KNOW how to dress properly and how to act decently when at church.

PS:  Dear monsignor, the Lord once told a parable about a guy who went to the wedding feast, not dress properly for the occasion, but was caught by the king for not wearing the proper wedding dress.  The King ordered:  "Bind him hand and foot, and cast him into the outer darkness; there men will weep and gnash their teeth." (Mt. 22 : 1 - 14)

Quite interesting that Christ used the imagery of a man not properly dressed for an important event getting a violent treatment because of it.

Just saying.

By the way, the king in the parable did not look at the heart of the wedding guest.

Just saying.

If I were psychotic, then this guy must be...

Way of the scales folks!

He'll editorialize just about everything there is under the planet.

He may even end up being a Cardinal of the Eastern Orthodox Church of Planet Mars.  Who knows?

The boy is delusional.

So he now is an interpreter of Church documents?  Another Google liturgist?

Gee whiz!

He did not even finish 1st year in Guadalupe!

Pfft!

Send a note to this boy's parents before he does more harm.

People from so many churches and groups have been telling me things about him.

Yeah I saw him once, back in Divine Mercy, babbling about the Eastern Catholic Church hierarch or something.

Do comic books come with a steep prize today?

Is this the kind of youth we have nowadays, trying to be someone they are really now and trying to just dip in their noses into things they do not even know.

As I have said in my posts, I echo what Fr. Z, Taylor Marshall and Fr. Chito Dimaranan had to say about the issue about Pope Francis and the FFI.

So, I basically agreed with what they said.

And the poor boy then proceeds to editorialize things again, and proceeds to use the same ad hominem language of a blogger-priest.

See what you made out of your follower, Father?

Haaaayyy...

Finish your education first Noah, before you hurt yourself.

And, fix your bloody English.  Good English is a prerequisite to getting a job even at a BPO company.

PS:  Thank you for CONTINUOUSLY following the blog.  How would you know about my stand on the issue if you are not visiting it at all.  Oh, shucks!  You flatter me too much...

UPDATE:   August 2, 2013:

Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. Hindi ako dapat pumapatol sa mga may sira sa ulo at yung mga kulang sa pansin na umiikot sa America para magka-pera, mamasyal at kumain lang. Mea culpa.  None of this ever again.

Last na to.

A stowaway joins WYD in Rio!

LOL!

Our fave pal, Pedrito, checking in!

Uhm...is he in first class or economy?  :D