When even bishops do not know what to wear

CF. When the bishop wears violet vestments, he wears a simple mitre 

(otherwise known as a mitra simplex)

Msgr. Peter J. Elliot

Two popes speaking out against clapping inside a Catholic church

“I am very glad to have come here. 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.’ (‘The temple of God is the temple of God.’)

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)

In case you forgot, St. John XXIII was the pope who called that overly hyped Vatican Council II.

And this one of course.

Something interesting seen in the Manila Cathedral

See it?

Comment below.

This is a RARE sighting.

When younger priests won't kneel

I am suffering from arthritis and I know the pain.

But you have just got to push through with that effort to show how much you love this Person.  And so you bend it, even though it cracks, even though it is painful.

You just have to do it.

Why?

Because it is the right thing to do.

Because it is the proper thing to do.

Because I want to show this as an example to the younger generations.

Because it is how I show my love for Him.

Make this viral!

You see younger ones who would not serve the Mass if it were not a celebrity cleric celebrating.

Or if the wedding is not Marian Rivera and Dingdong Dantes.

Or the baptism, confirmation and first communion does not involve Liza Soberano.

And you see younger ones who don't even kneel.

You know who you are.

In fact they teach it seminaries, convents and schools of liturgy.

Proof of it is that you see it on TV every week.  And everyday in parishes.

Nakakahiya.

Annibale Bugnini, the master architect of the New Mass, took out almost all of the genuflections of the Mass even though it was not mandated by the Council Fathers or Sacrosanctum Concilium.

When he was assigned to Iran as pro-nuncio, it was then that the ruthless Ayatollah Khomeini took power and so a theocracy ruled the country.  The Ayatollah summoned the members of the diplomatic corps into his presence and made them kneel down to him as a pledge of obedience.  Among those in the presence of the Ayatollah was Bugnini. He knelt.

When news of this event reached Rome, members of the Curia, in traditional Italian fashion, joked that Bugnini in Iran was doing all the genuflections he had removed from the Mass.

So the next time you are in the presence of Christ, in the church, during Mass, during the exposition and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament, inside a Eucharistic Adoration chapel.............KNEEL!

NOT THAT ONE!!! (those who are into the Christopher Reeves Superman would know this.)

These ones!

Do it before the opportunity is FORCED upon you.

Meanwhile, somewhere in Molo, Iloilo

Not even the gnarly little fingers of Geny can influence the priests here to take away the crucifix at the center of the altar!

Bring back the crucifix at the center of the altar, not on the side, but at the center and on the altar!

This is the Benedictine Altar arrangement.  Benedictine meaning from the liturgical influence of Pope emeritus Benedict XVI and not the Benedictine monk who started the liturgical nonsense in the country.

TPC Kudos to the parish priest of St. Anne Parish in Iloilo!  You make your church befitting as a house of worship!  God bless you Father!!!

Kudos too to the TPC reader who sent this via Facebook.

What is happening in the Archdiocese of Cebu?

Before when Benedict XVI was still pope, this was how it looked like in the Cebu Metropolitan Cathedral.

And now, since Benedict XVI isn't pope anymore, this is how it looks like.

Was the placement of the candles aka Benedictine Altar arrangement really the right thing to do or was it done BECAUSE it is the POLITICALLY right thing to do?

Not even a candle near the altar!  And the last photo was taken during the Chrism Mass.

What is happening to the Archdiocese of Cebu?

Diwa caught you now?

Sad.

Faithful Catholics were pinning their hopes on you.

To liturgists, do you still bow and for whom?

From "Ceremonies of the Modern Roman Rite: The Eucharist and the Liturgy of the Hours: a Manual for Clergy and All Involved in Liturgical Ministries"

201.  There are two bows in the modern Roman Rite: the bow of the body, or deep bow, and the bow of the head.

202.   A bow of the body is made to the altar when the Blessed Sacrament is not on or behind it, to the celebrant, before and after incensation and when it is specified in various rites.  It is always made to the bishop on approaching before leaving him and when passing in front of him during ceremonies. This bow should be gracious and unhurried. The body inclines forward from the waist, so that the hands could touch the knees, but they are kept joined as usual.

203.  A bow of the head is made at the mention aloud of the three Divine Persons (during the first part of the Glory be to the Father"), at the holy names of Jesus, Mary and of the saint whose honor the liturgy is being celebrated. In pratcice, the shoulders incline slightly during this bow. When naming Our Lady of the saint of the day, it may be made more moderately than at the name of Our Lord, when these names all occur in the same test, as in the first Eucharistic Prayer. A slight bow also expresses mutual respect and gratitude before and after receiving an object or being assisted in some way during a ceremony.  [Emphasis mine - Pedro]

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It is really amazing how some so called experts in Liturgy who possess these diplomas from San Beda and Paul VI Institute cannot even the simple bow of the head at the mention of the name of the Lord and the Lady in the Liturgy.

Makes you wonder what is the purpose of all those intelligence really is all about?

Do we need to be schooled to show respect to the Lord?  Do we need the academic degree for that?

Now here is the million dollar question, so many millions they already transferred it to secret bank accounts in Canada and Switzerland. Right Manong Jojo?

"DO YOU STILL SEE PRIESTS, BISHOPS AND ALL LAY PARTICIPANTS IN THE SANCTUARY BOWING THEIR HEADS AT THE MENTION OF THE HOLY NAME?"

Legislation or no legislation, rubric or no rubric, decorum calls for it. You don't need a gun pointed at you before you show respect.

The Lord deserves it.

So give it Him.

Another Bishop does it right

Bishop Emilio Layon Bataclan, auxiliary bishop of Cebu, says Mass with a Benedictine style altar arrangement on the first day novena of Saint Rita of Cascia.

It is also the the feast of our lady of Fatima, thus the blue vestments.

Kaya naman pala

Kaya naman pala mag amice, alba, at stole under chasuble pag nag-Misa.

Kaya naman pala mag sutana araw-araw kahit na tirik na tirik ang araw.

Dahil lang ba nandiyan si Pope, kaya tama ang vestments, tama ang daily vesture, tama ang kilos, tama ang galaw?

Good bye Pope Francis.

Good bye proper vestments/decorum/sutana?

If he can do it, 

why can't you?

Glory to God for the 2015 Papal Masses in PHL

Composed by Fr. Manoling Francisco, SJ now being sung in Catholic churches in the Archdiocese of Manila.

I heard it sung at Edsa Shrine this Sunday.  Lasted for almost 10 minutes!  That beat your usual Gregorian chant, Missa de Angelis Gloria which only runs for 3:20!

The antiphon is in English, Latin, Bisaya, Tagalog and Ilocano.

Three verses.  First in Ilocano, next in Tagalog, and then the last one in Cebuano.

So if you are like most of Filipinos here in Manila, chances are you will only understand two out of five languages/dialects used.

Which makes you scratch your head.

Why not just one language?

Why not just English?  Why not just Tagalog?  Why not just Latin?

So the liturgists of the Archdiocese will spend time asking the people to learn this new song while deriding the centuries old Gregorian chant?

Tell me.  Is this what San Beda and PIL taught you?...........to despise anything from the past just because they are old?

Latin is hard to learn?  Tell it to these youths.

Tell that to the Muslims.  Young people already chant and read Arabic....I mean young FILIPINO people.

It can be done.

They just don't want to.


PS:  I saw photos of a young seminarian serving the Beatification Mass of Lorenzo Ruiz and companion martyrs at Luneta.  That seminarian is now a cathedral rector and the other one is an archbishop.

Why'd I say this?  Simple.  Professional Lay Liturgists especially the one from Cubao would love to take the spotlight even from seminarians.  Why not enter the seminary instead of being a perpetual altar server.  Let me give you a hint.  FLUNKED.  REJECT.

BLACK is a liturgical color

Contrary to the rants of the swivel-chair and hobbyist liturgists and ill-informed priests, BLACK is a liturgical color which the Church did not abolish.

The General Instruction of the Roman Missal is specific about this:

346. As regards the color of sacred vestments, traditional usage should be observed, namely:

e) Besides the color violet, the colors white or black may be used at funeral services and at other Offices and Masses for the Dead [emphasis mine]

And here are some photos I got online, of bishops and priests celebrating the Mass of All Souls day in the Ordinary Form (Novus Ordo Missae) or the Missal of Blessed Paul VI, wearing black vestments.

So the next time someone rants about black being not a liturgical color, tell them to

Because they do not teach seminarians to read the GIRM.

How is Cardinal Canizares?

Former Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for Divine Worship, Antonio Cardinal Canizares Llovera was installed as the Archbishop of Valencia, Spain.

Sana magtuloy-tuloy ang liturgical reform sa Diocese niya.

A Tribute to Dom Anscar Chupungco, O.S.B.

People can be fussy about dress.  Convention requires that we wear proper vestments for the occasion.  Filipino Catholics expect their priest to wear the appropriate vestments for worship.  In the liturgy garbs or vestments are worn to signify a person's state of life and role in the Church.

page 221 
What, Then, Is Liturgy 
Musings and Memoir

Vatican II drives people to love the TLM

 

Vatican II said it and our chapels and churches do not have it at all.

There is too much noise in our churches.

Too much clapping!

Too much feel good music!

No time to pray and reflect after the readings.

No time to reflect and pray after the homily.

No time to reflect and pray after Holy Communion .

Our churches are noisy!

That is why people who crave for the sacred silence come to worship the Lord through the Traditional Latin Mass.  Read here and here.

 

Read 1 Kings 19:11-13.

And may this image stuck in your mind.

He prayed not like how we pray today, raised arms, dancing.

He did not.

He retreated into the mountains for the silence.

Liturgical Dissent happening again!

Though illegal, Filipino liturgists and some bishops continue to promote and celebrate the Misa ng Bayang Pilipino, a rite completely invented (and lacking in Magisterial or Conciliar Document support) on the academic desk of the late Fr. Anscar Chupungco, OSB

DAVAO City, August 13, 2014—The Archdiocese of Davao will be hosting the 29th National Meeting of Diocesan Directors of Liturgy (NMDDL) from August 11 to 14.

To be held at the MerGrande Ocean Resort, the conference will focus on “The Liturgy for Special Groups” with discussions about Basic Ecclesial Communities (BEC), celebrations with children and youth, Trans-parochial Communities, and Persons with Disabilities (PWD).  [Why was it that before the liturgical revolution of the 1960s, the Mass appealed to all people, disabled or not?  Why?]

Aside from these, the conference will also tackle the proper catechesis on the approved New English Translation of the Rite of Marriage for the Philippines and the Rite of Confirmation.

Participants will be treated with a welcome dinner on the August 11 and on the second day, they will join the Misa ng Bayang Pilipino. [aka Participants will be treated to a form of Mass not approved by Rome, therefore making this form of worship illegal.]

NMDDL is a yearly gathering of all directors of the diocesan liturgical commissions in the Philippines in order to update them on liturgical concerns, promote coordination with the Episcopal Commission on Liturgy, and to create closer ties among liturgical commissions. The first NMDDL was held in 1986 in Tagaytay City. 

This is the second time that the Archdiocese of Davao will host the same meeting as the first one was held in September 1998. (John Frances C. Fuentes)


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A yearly event that does not even talk about the REALITY and LEGALITY called the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite aka Traditional Latin Mass.  If you have shepherds who are uncharitable and suspecting you of being SSPX because of your attachment to the ancient form of worship that is UNIVERSALLY legal and binding as per the Motu Propio, Summorum Pontificum, I couldn't help but scratch my head, in disbelief how Catholic Masses with all the liturgical creativities and nonsense like dance, and Misa ng Bayang Pilipino could be allowed even if they are blatantly ILLEGAL in the eyes of the competent authorities of the Church.

Diocesan Directors of Liturgy MUST always teach first and foremost adherence to the liturgical norms of the Church.  These men and women wallow in their liturgical academic degrees as their license to do whatever they want with the Holy Mass EVEN IF Holy Mother Church forbids anyone from adding or subtracting anything from the approved texts and norms.

Where is Misa ng Bayang Pilipino in Sacrosantum Concilium?

Inculturation?

Where is that in ANY Vatican II document?

The ghost of Chupungco continues to haunt us...

Veils galore!

Is it just me or are South Korean Catholics know the importance of veils more than Pinoy Catholics?

What are your thoughts about this?

Should veils make a comeback in the Philippines?

Pope Francis in the Philippines

I just heard from the chancery that the professional altar servers are going gaga over the news of Pope Francis' visit here in January.

The notion of being one of the servers for several papal Masses is sooooo juicy....for professional altar servers.  These are the kind of people who would rather stay as "Ministers" or "Trainors" of altar servers rather than consider a vocation to the priesthood.

Makes you wonder really why they choose to remain that way.

And before I forget.  It is a great addition to their resume for being "professional liturgists".  they can go parish to parish brandishing their "brand", legitimizes their claims to different titles.

Now you know.

And we know who these guys are.

Old, New Papal Style

At yesterday's Pallium Mass, Pope Francis returns the use of the standard style of the Pallium.

The style Pallium has evolved throughout the course of Papal history

Pope Saint John Paul II wore a much longer Pallium during the Jubilee Year of 2000. Can any of the readers send a picture of the Pope wearing that?  It is similar to this. 

Pope Benedict XVI had to Pallium designs during his entire Pontificate