From PALO, LEYTE: How seminarians are invested...

PROPERLY.

And you don't just buy from a store, wear one, and pretend to be one!

Damn wackos!

These young men are REALLY SEMINARIANS.

They passed a battery of tests before they are accepted.

And one of those is a PSYCHOLOGICAL TEST!

Ha!

Bet some guys won't pass that.

So they just buy one of these lovely vestments and do COSPLAY!

Ugh!

Enjoy the pictures!

From this....

The cassocks and surplices are blessed and incensed....properly!

And the worthy seminarians are vested with it.

WORTHY!

This is how you inspire VOCATIONS TO THE PRIESTHOOD!

If you see nut cases wearing something like this that they are not even worthy...

If you see girls trying to look like them...

GOD HELP US!

And you still wonder why they do not do this in LITURGICALLY IMPERIAL MANILA.

...to think we have a world-class liturgist there.

This one is in Palo, Leyte under Archbishop John Du!

Lovely!

PS:  How to receive Holy Communion.......PROPERLY

And you still wonder why they do not do this in LITURGICALLY IMPERIAL MANILA.

...to think we have a world-class liturgist there.

On criticizing errant priests and bishops

St. Catherine admonishing Pope Gregory XI

Yes, I am known to do this.

And in fact, I get a lot of hate mails because of that.

Why?

Because some die-hard fans of these errant priests and bishops would rather turn a blind eye on their IDOLS' wrongdoings and do and say NOTHING!

Don't you think this was how the sex abuse scandal got out of hand?


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It is interesting to note that if St. Catherine disapproved of Gregory XI's residency at Avignon, she must have implicitly disapproved of the entire course the Church had been following for the previous seventy years, since the papal residency at Avignon had been a reality since Clement V (1309). She disagreed not only with the actions of a single pontiff but with something that had become an entrenched ecclesiastical policy. Yet the fact that she was going against seventy years of precedent didn't stop her; perhaps some tried to tell her that her efforts were fruitless, that this was "the way of the future." Yet this made no difference to her.

Many of you can see where I am going with this - if one of our greatest saints and doctors of the Church can admonish a pope that his prudential judgment in governing the Church is errant, and be praised for it, why is there a stigma attached to questioning prudential judgments of the popes today in their governance of the Church?.............  [Especially for a nut job who is still jobless!]


Therefore, when we do find these examples from history of saints admonishing or correcting popes, I don't think we need to be cowed into silence by those who would accuse us of arrogance by saying, "You're not a saint!" I certainly don't claim to be a saint, but I do know that St. Catherine, when she was petitioning the pope to change his judgment, wasn't doing it "because she was a saint"; she was doing it because it was right to do, and one never has to be ashamed of doing what is right so long as it is done in charity and sincerity.

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Don't you think believing and admiring the priest and bishop too much is a violation of the first commandment?

I mean, Truth is not dependent on the personality.

That is a cult......a cult of personality not a cult of merits of the case.

Not far from what the attackers of Sen. Tito Sotto are doing, eh?

Bash the messenger. Ignore the message.

For the entire blog post, click here.

I agree with what the blogger wrote, stroke after stroke of the computer key!

PS: The Label of this post is "Anti-TPC" also known as EK or KSP or GL.

ROFL!!!

The bigotry of Anthony Taberna

Yeah, that is Iglesia ni Cristo, born-against-Catholics Anthony Taberna.

A broadcast journalist.  Supposed to be un-biased.

He could not keep his Iglesia ni Manalo tongue tamed for the moment so he lashed out at the grieving supporter of the late Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo, so he called Our Lady of Peñafrancia a "sino-sino" or in English "whoever that is".

So "unbiased."

No wonder his TV network, ABS-CBN is suffering.

GULP: A Message for Fr. Mario Sobrejuanite, SSP

FR. MARIO!

Stop the dancing at Mass!

It is forbidden!

Guess where I am!

The only shot I got from my friend's camera.

I am on a freeeeeeeeeee  trip. And I am enjoying it.  :)

Internet connection is limited so I'll see if I can still blog.

If you are asking for photos, I think I can give only a few ones.  I can't reveal the monsignor I am with.  ;)

And!...someone will be hungry to see my face!

Right, Carlita?

Time to buy some authentic Italian birettas and ferraiolo's at Gamarelli's for my friend priests.

Guess some wannabes will be drooling.

Ha!


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PS:  Last I heard someone was still on a witch hunt.  Ha!

From a TPC Reader: Putting the tabernacle to the side is reaally wrong!

And doing it this way is doing it even worse!

And to think that those who always put the tabernacle to the side always reason out that they must put the tabernacle to the side since "they do not want to put their backs on the Lord."

Sacrosanctum Concilium always reminds us that the tabernacle must be placed in a place of honor or in a separate chapel where He will be adored in prayer and silence.

Now look at this!

Do you even think that the priest who did this has any regard for the presence of the Lord?

Do you think he is giving the Lord the place of honor in this church?

Or do you think he just follows the trend...........BLINDLY?

"Oh come on, TPC, that photo does not even show the entire sanctuary!"

Oh come on!  Can you see that?  The image of the saint has a spotlight on it.  The tabernacles sanctuary lamp is nowhere near to be found?!?!

You do love HIM?

Prove it!

GIVE HIM THE PLACE OF HONOR HE DESERVES.

Bring back the tabernacle at the center of the sanctuary!

Is your Obstetrician and Gynecologist truthful to you?

In matters about the artificial contraceptive?...........

And about what their society really thinks about the RH Bill?

I guess most are!

But it seems that the top brass of the Philippine Obstetrical and Gynecological Society (POGS)made a blanket statement of support for RH without even consulting its general membership which completely took them (the members) by surprise!

Read about this new explosive expose from the Pinoy Templars page!

Look who gets a free trip to Vietnam!

No other than the president of POGS!

Who paid for the trip?

Hmmm....

Another Fake Roman Catholic Priest

Funny how a fake church is going against its own former priest who remains fake.

Ha!

Just be warned folks.

A lot of them roam the streets, asking for money, and worst!.............

Send me a PM on my Facebook account and I'll tell you what.

I am online the whole day today.

:)

From a TPC reader: Altar Arrangement and Communion in the Hand

 
Dear Pinoy Catholic,

Your blog is really good. [thank you very much!  A lot of work, a lot of enemies, but gained a lot of friends too.]   I have the same view as your in the communion in the hand. [Read the following horror!] I have seen the harm of it in my school one of the students is just putting the Body of Christ in his pocket and I am so gad I saw it and mad him consume it.  I have also seen liturgical horrors in the mass they would use song that are not appropriate. The more horrible thing is the drums and plenty of instruments it is like more of a concert than a mass and the actings in the homily.   Due to this reason I have been using doing all things that i can to make setting correct through my serving. I am putting the crucifix in the altar but sadly sometimes they would just remove it. I am also using the burse and the chalice veil.

Can you help me how to make the altar in a more reverent setting. It is just to candles at each side and the occasional crucifix. Can you also give me suggestion on altar serving to make it more reverent or add some thing from the EF mass to it? Thank you more power God Bless

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First of all, thank you for writing.  I really do appreciate it.

Secondly, putting the cross and candles on the altar is the best that you can do to make the altar look, well, more like, uhm, an altar and not just any bare table.  Five-star hotels who set up a candle lighted dinner have candles on them.  Funny how these liturgists who always compare the ordinary meal with the Holy Mass refuses to put the candle on the table because, according to them "you don't have candles on the table when you eat."  DUH!

Read the General Instruction of the Romal Missal.  Follow the blog.  You'll find that altar arrangements are just the beginning of bringing back the sense of the sacred into the Mass.

Doing the "Benedictine" altar arrangement is laudable and is within the bounds of liturgical law.  It is NOT a liturgical heritage of the Church to put candles near the altar.  NEVER!  Whoever did that was just doing it out of novelty or worse, because they do not want the view of their faces obstructed.  Guess narcissists really want the attention of the whole world on them, eh?

And finally, I still have to find the benefits of having Communion in the Hand.

Seriously.

It did more harm than good.

For more resources against Communion in the Hand, click here.

Look who is on the RH payroll!!!

Seems the honorable and objective media men who "expose" the anomalies in government are the ones who are really getting paid by the financiers of the RH propaganda to sweeten things up and make it appear that they are after the truth and your rights!

Yeah!  After they got their pay checks from those pushing RH!

http://pinoytemplars.blogspot.com/2012/08/media-co-opted-by-well-oiled-rh-lobby.html

 Click that link to find out more!

Just as I suspected.

Ever since Ces Oreña Drilon got into that kidnapping mess, I knew there was something wrong with that woman.

Turns out she is not the media personality we all hoped to be.

And I always had that stinking feeling that most in the that network are up for sale if!!!!!!!!!!!

Another Latin Mass!

Traditional Latin Mass returns to the Pontifical and Royal University

I can imagine someone shuddering to see this happen at UST.

Obviously, the one who is against the TLM, the one who is against the New Translation and the one who wants to control how a bishop runs his liturgical affairs in his own diocese!

Well, let him rant.  Let him claim whatever title he has.  Let him sell his books and say what he wants in his seminars.

Here are the facts that won't change:

1. He is no bishop.  He can't do anything about it.  Makes me wonder why some bishops want to be harassed by a mere priest who occupies a non-canonical position.
2. He is retired and let him stay that way
3. He has no legal basis to say or do whatever he wants to
4. Tradition has come back to the Church.  The train has left.  He can't do anything about it.
5. Those who love Tradition are mostly the youth contrary to what he keeps on saying that only the nostalgic old are attached to the Traditional form.
6. Only liberals listen to him.  Yup.  If you see those who love liturgical creativity masked as inculturation or liturgical animation, chances are these are liturgical/theological liberals who have a very lukewarm attitude towards the opposition of the Church towards contraception e.g. RH Bill.

Am I talking about one priest here or two?

Hahahahaha!!!

In the meantime, feast your eyes!

Photos courtesy of our friends from the Varsitarian, the official student paper of the UST, and IMHO the proud Catholic student paper in the country. I have to see other school papers come out strongly in support of the Church....and Una Voce Philippines - Societas Ecclesia Dei Sancti Ioseph (SEDSI). The officers and members of SEDSI helped organize this momentous Mass.

The REAL LITURGICAL RENEWAL!!!

So, what's next?

The Dominican Rite at UST and Santo Domingo and other Dominican Priories in the Philippines?  :)