One of the best comments I have ever read.

This is a comment about this post.

Now here are my comments to the comments.  :)

Come to think of it, the Roman Collar is one distinguishing visible sign for a priest, for a bishop.

Too bad this is no longer the norm. [really bad, not even the indult for the Philippines which is the barong with a cross hung around the neck.  Rarely would you find priests dressed this way.] 

But it certainly is no simple external sign, but in a a way
- identifies the person is a priest or bishop [identified as a CLERIC]
- reminds the priest or bishop that he is set apart from the rest and should therefore act according to priestly decorum  [Can we hear a big "Amen" for this?]
- and deters him to act improperly and be in a place only where priests should go [Amen amen amen!!!]
- it also reminds lay people that they are talking to a priest  [Identity crisis in the Church, yes we do.  Laymen wear the clerical collar and the clerics wear the layman's collar.  Ugh!] 

Looks too simple, but its impact is great!  [It is great of an impact.]
I hope our Filipino clergy will come to their sense to return to their proper decorum.

I noticed that the younger clergy are the ones beginning to wear this way.  The hippie, 1960s clergy who are slowly fading away are those not dressing this way.

We hope that what we see on the outside is in fact a reflection on what is in the inside.

Kudos to Jose Maria de Manila for that comment. 

The Pinoy Catholic is for clapping!

I might clap happily during Mass when I see even one of these happen:

1. Commentator announces before the Mass that there will be no liturgical dancers.
2. The people heard Gregorian chant for the entrance procession
3. The people saw no altar girls in the procession.
4. The altar servers were wearing white surplice over their clerical collar less black cassock instead of the barong even though they did not just come from a wedding or the camisa chino, even though they did not just come from a cultural show or the monastic alb even though they are just young boys who do not belong to the monastic order.
5. The one carrying the Book of the Gospels is the deacon and NOT the lector.
6. No EMHCs were in the entrance procession.
7. Priests were not wearing chasu-albs.
8. The organist who loves drum sets when playing the organ was late so the organist who plays the REAL organ substitutes.
9. There are only 4 EMHCs to assist the priest for the regular Sunday Mass Attendance of 200.
10. Any song by Hill Song or Don Moen is conspicuously absent.  Include that "I Will Sing" and "Christify".
11. The sound system got busted in the middle of the priests homily laden with jokes and made up stories.
12. The priest announced that there will be no Communion in the Hand allowed because there is no more SARS and the quote from St. Hippolytus was taken waaay out of context, and that Communion on the Tongue while kneeling will be the only mode of reception.
13. The priest also announced that known Masons, Feminist and Dissenting nuns, active homosexuals, pro-contraception and pro-abortion politicians will be BANNED from receiving Holy Communion.
14. When only bread and wine were offered during the offertory.
15. When the priest did not deviate from the liturgical texts.
16. There was no hand shaking during the exchange of the Sign of Peace.
17. The upbeat and happy tuned versions of Lamb of God was replaced by a more solemn and somber tuned version.
18. The priest announced that there will be no clapping allowed after he says "The Mass is ended."

In other words, if bishops, priests, deacons, and lay who act as lector, altar servers and  EMHC do what is expected of them, not deviating from what the liturgical books says or contemplates, then we would all be happy and worshiping God as Holy Mother Church does and wills it.

Rare moments you would really lose it and just clap and SHOUT FOR JOY!!!.....

.............after the Mass.

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POP UP GULP QUIZ!!!

There are a few moments in the Liturgy that people are "allowed"  to clap.  This even happened even before the liturgical reform of Vatican II.

Name the three moments that this is allowed.

Prelude to the Instituted Acolyte post

Everyone is going gaga over being an instituted acolyte, both for those who claim to be one and those who dispute the claim.

Well, I ma throwing my hat into the fray, so please answer this question.

Before you are instituted, what certifications do you have to present? Hmmmm?

Request for prayers from a TPC reader

Pedro, I would like to ask for your prayers. My church is a traditional Anglican parish seeking to secede from that awful body and come into proper Catholic Truth. Pray that we don't drown as we begin our swim home!

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I'm sure you won't.  :)


The "drowning" means swimming across the Tiber River back into the flock shepherded by the fisherman name Peter.  :)

And this became the title of the book of another popular convert.

Please pause and say a prayer for my friend.

Please say three Aves for him and his family.

It will mean a lot for me and for him.

Thank you all!

I am sure someone will be wide arms open to welcome our friend.  :)

:)

Sorry, I can't find yet a photo of Pope Francis with arms extended like that of the pope emeritus.

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!

The Black and White Movement of Leah Navarro has lost its credibility

Why?

Because everybody has a price!

Benedict XVI still did something before he left the Chair

Vatican City, Aug 23, 2013.- In one of his last acts as Pope, Benedict XVI approved changed wording in the rite of baptism which emphasizes “the Church of God” as the community into which the baptized individual has been incorporated.

After having baptized a child, the minister will now receive him, saying, “The Church of God welcomes you with great joy,” according to a Feb. 22 decree of the Congregation for Divine Worship signed by Cardinal Antonio Cañizares Llovera, prefect, and Archbishop Arthur Roche, secretary.

The previous text read, “The Christian community welcomes you with great joy.”
The new one: “The Church of God welcomes you with great joy.”

The change took effect March 31 in the Latin typical edition of the baptismal texts, and is to be implemented in future vernacular editions.

According to the decree, Benedict XVI established the change during an audience with Cardinal Cañizares held Jan. 28.

The decree was recently published in “Notitiæ,” the newsletter of the Congregation.

The opening text of the decree states: “The gate of life and of the kingdom, Baptism is the sacrament of faith, by which men are incorporated into the one Church of Christ, which subsists in the Catholic Church, governed by the successor of Peter and by the Bishops in communion with him.”

“Wherefore it seemed good to the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments of Baptism to introduce some changes … so that in (baptism) more light may be shed on the doctrinal teaching of the task and office of Mother Church.”  [It is an issue of catechism!]

Vatican analyst Sandro Magister's commented in his Aug. 22 article in L'Espresso that the change emphasizes that “it is the Church of God … that receives those who are being baptized, and not generically some 'Christian community;'” the latter is ambiguous, and could refer merely to the local parish community or even other ecclesial communities.  [Why am I not surprised about too much ambiguities in our Church documents after Vatican II.  Remember this!  Liturgy experts were behind this liturgical books!  And look where it brought us!]

Magister noted that Benedict XVI had in fact implemented the change in his own administration of baptism on Jan. 13, two weeks prior to his audience with Cardinal Cañizares. According to Magister, when the emeritus Pope celebrated baptism that day in the Sistine Chapel, his annual custom, he said in Italian, “Dear children, with great joy the Church of God welcomes you.”

The present Italian text reads, “With great joy our Christian community welcomes you,” even though “our” is not included in the Latin text.  [Does the ICEL translation of the liturgical books sound familiar?  How about the Tagalog liturgical books?  Ha!]

Prior to this year, when Benedict XVI celebrated baptism in Italian as Pope, he had omitted this “our,” conforming the Italian he pronounced to the Latin typical edition.

“Perhaps,” Magister concluded, “it is precisely that excessively self-referential 'our' that induced the pope theologian to decide on the change.”


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Our liturgy has become too anthropocentric, man-centered, always the "Me" "You" "Us" that matter.

The liturgy which lifts our heart and souls to God, was re-engineered to bring our senses to one another.

We have so much ambiguous terms in the liturgy the one who hears it need too much "re-catechism" just so that the Catholic does not get confused.  Example?  How about the new translation of the Missal?

Liturgiam Autheticam, the Instruction which started it all said "the original text, insofar as possible, must be translated integrally and in the most exact manner, without omissions or additions in terms of their content, and without paraphrases or glosses. Any adaptation to the characteristics or the nature of the various vernacular languages is to be sober and discreet."

One of the reasons again why I love Pope emeritus Benedict XVI.

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.

Sightings in the Luneta rally

I almost shouted  "Fuego!"  LOL!

But I'd prefer them to be posing here.  Perfect place for their advocacy.

If you have no idea what that flag is all about...

Ugh!

They are a danger to the Faith and they attack relentless the moral authority of the Church.

FYI:  One of the rabid groups during the RH debates that benefited from pork barrel money.

Along with Akbayan.

Calling someone out for this sins...

Another great, no nonsense, no Mickey Mouse gloves confrontation of lazy, conformist bishops of the US from Michael Voris!



 

For the self-centered feel-good, pseudo-defender of the Church, who really cares nothing but his own self-loathing megalomaniac public image...

He debated me about my attitude of calling out liberal priests and bishops for their sins of commission and omission.  He said that I am sinning for publicly criticizing the bishops, because they are the successors of the apostles.

Well, I thought if Judas Iscariot were alive this self-centered feel-good, pseudo-defender of the Church, who really cares nothing but his own self-loathing megalomaniac public image, would defend Judas Iscariot and would definitely be one of those who on a Sunday shouted "Hosanna!" and on Friday shouted "Crucify him!".

Yes.

There are priests like that who think that making people uncomfortable by telling them their errors is an un-Christian way to do it.

He believes in "brotherly" correction but is anything but brotherly. He is ready to spew venom upon those who would question his methods of apologetics and his attitude of SHOUTING in the Internet as if everyone, and I mean, EVERYONE, in the Internet is as dumb and stupid as some of those he debates at the Iglesia ni Manalo and Dating Daan of Fairy godmother Eli Soriano.  (By the way, this megalomaniac, chickened out of the debate with Ninang Eli's drones.)

The Vortex is one of those programs that inspires this blog to continue doing what it does.  CALLING OUT ERROR.

And yes, I can take it too if someone calls me out.

Make no mistake.

Followers of this blog are growing daily, and they contribute DAILY.

WE ARE TPC.

And you cannot hide the errors you commit.

We will call you out!

And for that megalomaniac bloggger...check your ego.  The real reason why you love your blog is not because of the apologetics.  It is because of the attention you are getting and the free meals and tickets that go along with it.

Aren't you troubled?

I know a lot about your whims.

Check your conscience.

What you do does a great dishonor to what you are wearing!

God really told your superiors to check on you.

And you listened instead to your ego.

Poor you...

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PS:  This megalomaniac poor excuse for a blogger called Michael Voris a Rad Trad.  Mike will get that screencap.  I promise you that so this ego-tripper won't have a photosession with the famous host of the Vortex.

GULP Alert: Priests don't own the Mass!!!

This is from the album of Rev. Fr. Greg Vega of St. Andrew Parish, Candaba, Pampanga.

I feel so nauseated thinking of how these poor girls were made to look like they were a bunch of vestla virgins.

No.  This was not during the girls' first communion.

Our GULP agent said that this is a staple of Sunday or fiesta Masses of Fr. Greg.

Wherever he got this idea, I don't know where.  San Beda or PIL in Bukidnon, perhaps?

Most probably.

All the marks of active participation and gender equality written all over it.

Just plain, dumb!

And can you see women wearing the scapular like "stoles" of the EMHCs?

Yup.

They are lectors.

Why have the same one as EMHCs?

Because women can't be EMHCs so they need an EQUAL garb.

So, there you have it.

Gender Equality.

Dumb.

Simply dumb.

Go ahead and comment.

I'm still nauseated with these priests who think they can just do whatever they want in the Mass.

As if THEY OWN THE MASS!

How dumb can you be?

Why, you asked?

Because there are people who think that when a priest celebrates the Tridentine Mass, he is a sedevacantist, an SSPX...

If a lay person supports that priest, and attends the Tridentine Mass, he is a sedevacantist and an SSPX supporter.

And if a blogger does all of that, he is branded a secret SSPX!

Right, Padre?

Don't deny it.

I have the screenshot.

Time to APOLOGize.

That is why we have people like this.

When you mention St. Pius X, they think you are already of the group.

Some apologetics.