URGENT: An International Appeal in Defense of Summorum Pontificum

A wide scale international appeal to the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, has been organized to defend the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum against those who would want to restrict its application.

MOTU PROPRIO APPEAL

READ, SIGN, SHARE AND MAKE IT KNOWN

Michael Voris in Manila

Michael Voris of Real Catholic TV will give a talk for Defensores Fidei Foundation on February 24, 2011, 7:00PM -8:00 PM., at Christ the King Parish in Greenmeadows, Quezon City. Please spread the word. He will discuss how lay Catholics should respond to theological dissent, drawing upon the experience of lay American Catholics.

Extraordinary Form in Sunday TV Mass

Join us on Saturday, January 22 at 8:00PM for the taping of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass using the pre-Vatican II Missal of Pope John XXIII at the Parish of the Lord of the Divine Mercy in Sikatuna Village Quezon City. Celebrant is Father Michell Joe Zerrudo. It will be aired on Sunday, January 23 at 7:00AM over SOLAR-RPN9.

After Summorum Pontificum (at least in the Capital Region), this will be the first Sunday TV mass in the extraordinary form and the second televised mass. The first televised mass was in Christmas of 2008 at St. Jerome Emiliani and Sta. Susanna Parish in Alabang, aired in NBN4.

CONFERENCE: A Global Perspective on the RH Bill

Listen and learn from experts from here and around the world to give us a wider perspective of the issues related to the RH Bill.

January 27, 2011 (Thursday)

UP-NCPAG Assembly Hall, UP Diliman,

Quezon City Philippines

Instructions: Please complete application form on or before January 24, 2011. We will send you a confirmation email or fax regarding your registration.

Registration Fee:

Early Bird Rate: 250Php (deadline: January 24)

Regular Rate: 350Php *Financial assistance for participants is available . (Limited slots only)

For any questions about the conference and application process, please contact us at:

Telefax: +63 2 4330715 (look for Ann Bajo or Yolanda Joab)

E-mail: wyaap.conference@gmail.com

See conference programme: http://wyaasiapacific.blogspot.com/

Condom wielding DOH Secretary: GMA7's Public Servant of the Year.

"...Dr. Esperanza Cabral was last Valentine’s Day, handing out condoms on the streets of Manila to couples who appeared like they might need a few that night."


Dr. Esperanza Cabral: GMANews.TV’s Public Servant of the Year

IS DISTRIBUTING CONDOMS ON VALENTINE'S DAY PUBLIC SERVICE?! WHAT SHE DID WAS TO PROMOTE MORE AND MORE PROMISCUITY AND YOU CALL THAT PUBLIC SERVICE?! GMA7, I PITY YOU! YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE ASKING FOR.

Seasons Greetings

He is the reason for the season.

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Does survey determine the truth?

"And those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness." - Alcuin to Charlemagne


We are facing a dangerous trend where people are beginning to think what is moral should dictated by numbers instead of what is natural. Somebody is leading the country to thread on dangerous grounds where people, specially the leaders, believe that truth is subjective and based on popularity. This is the fallacy of democracy.

Without noticing it, there is now a dangerous tendency to determine not only legal, but also moral issues, or what is right and what is wrong, through popularity surveys. Playing the numbers game to decide legal or moral issues is getting to be an accepted norm in our democratic society. The current view is that if 6, 7 or 8 out of 10 people surveyed think that a certain proposition is true and correct, or is legal, then that proposition should be accepted and adopted. If carried to the extremes, it means that if the same number of people or all of them believe that two plus two equals five then it should be accepted as true and correct.

More here: Determining the truth through surveys by Atty. Jose C. Sison, Philippine Star columnist.

SSPX joins the Vigil Tonight

I am informed that the Society of St. Pius X at the Our Lady of Victories will be joining the Holy Father tonight in prayer for nascent human life after their 6:30pm Mass. Their vigil will end at midnight.

(Sounds strange that a group considered to be "rebels" are uniting themselves with the Holy Father in tonight's vigil but we don't hear any announcements or organization coming from the CBCP or bishops from the Philippines except for a very few.)

YES! for Benedict

"We express sincere gratitude to you, Holy Father, for your leadership in this gravely needed initiative, and in the fight for life around the world. In prayer, we renew and redouble our efforts, trusting that the Author of Life will guide us toward victory in defending our most vulnerable brothers and sisters."


If you pledge to participate in the Vigil for Nascent Human Life, have your names included in the thank you note to the Holy Father. Register here: YES! for Benedict

El Shaddai's anti-RH vigil

COME and JOIN !!!!

Prayer Vigil for the Nascent Human Life

DATE: November 27, 2010

TIME: 5:30 PM

VENUE: EL SHADDAI GROUNDS

Amvel City Compound, Parañaque

Pope Benedict has earlier called on all Catholics to join the prayer vigil for “All Nascent of Human Life” on the eve of the first Sunday of Advent which will be celebrated in all dioceses and parishes.

P R O G R A M

5:30 PM ………….. INTRODUCTION

6:00 PM……..... EXPOSITION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT HOLY ROSARY

7:00 PM ………….. TESTIMONY

7: 30 PM …………. HOLY MASS

9:00 PM…………… VIGIL PROPER


Its time to unite our stand and get involved in the most important role you can ever have as a Baptized Catholic, Following Gods command to spread the One True Faith. Defend Mother Church and be counted in this battle for LIFE from womb to tomb against all its threats.

Bishop Conley on the New Translation

Among other things, reading this made my day (emphasis mine):

(Referring to the current translation of ICEL):

God “makes it possible for us, though we are but creatures, to sing and worship with the angels” – an awe-inspiring task for which household objects, popular music, and casual language are inappropriate. Bishop Conley indicated that many attempts to make worship feel more familiar, have instead made it less inspiring.

(Referring to the New Mass Translation):

The new Mass translation reasserts “the continuity of the Novus Ordo (Mass) with the ancient liturgy of the Church” – where the apostles and the first Christians understood themselves to be “singing the song of angels,” participating in a heavenly ceremony while on earth.

Bishop Conley cited the words of Pope Benedict XVI, who said Catholic worship “presupposes … that the heavens have been opened,” and must reflect this reality. “This is the truth we need to recover,” the bishop taught. “Christ has rent the heavens and come down to us. Again he has been lifted up and carried into heaven to take his seat at the right hand of power.”

(...)

Bishop Conley specified a number of changes intended to recapture this sense of the sacred in the new translation, including the revival of the congregation's traditional response “and with your spirit,” the restored and “more faithfully translated” prayer of the priest before the Eucharistic rite, and the more exalted language in the “Gloria” hymn.

“Our new Mass translation replaces the mundane affirmation –'Happy are those who are called to (Christ's) supper'– with a confession of faith … 'Blessed are those called to the Supper of the Lamb'.” The bishop explained that these changes “get us closer to the theological richness and the poetry of the original Latin.”

More here: Bishop explains how new Mass translation 'reaches up to heaven'

The kind of media we have

I've just read from a friend's wall post in Facebook that ABS-CBN's Umagang Kay Ganda hosts commenting on WHO's acclaim of Pope Benedict XVI that the Pope "says" the use of condoms by men and women to avoid AIDS is "morally justifiable."

My friend commented that it is PLAIN LYING. Indeed they are. They grossly misinterpreted and misrepresented what Pope Benedict said. This is what media will never quote from the Holy Father in the same book: “…that we cannot solve the problem by distributing condoms. Much more needs to be done,” ; “…But this just goes to show that condoms alone do not resolve the question itself” ; “ This means that the sheer fixation on the condom implies a banalization of sexuality, which, after all, is precisely the dangerous source of the attitude of no longer seeing sexuality as the expression of love, but only a sort of drug that people administer to themselves” ; “…But it is not really the way to deal with the evil of HIV infection. That can really lie only in a humanization of sexuality.” [Ref: Pope Benedict and the Condom Question by Rev. Fr. Joel O. Jason SThL]

This is professional stupidity coming from the Umagang Kay Ganda hosts.

This is why the reason I stopped watching that program. You can never get anything intelligent coming from their cretin hosts. Their show is all BS.

Crisis of Journalism

The media frenzy of what it thought to be a 360 degree turn of the Catholic Church's doctrine of using condoms is truly lamentable. The secular society, liberal and progressive factions, quickly swarmed  like vultures over a piece of dead meat. The lie quickly spread like wildfire and the proponents of the RH Bill in both government and private sector celebrated like the Emperor Nero when he burned Rome to ashes.

Despite numerous clarifications coming from the Vatican and Church representatives, the journalists seems to have never reported anything that would correct the lie they helped spread. They continued with presenting headlines such as "Vatican: Everyone can use condoms to prevent HIV" or "Vatican broadens case for condoms to fight AIDS" or "Condoms lesser of two evils." The author of the book "Light of the World," Peter Seewald decried a "crisis of journalism" that the Pope's words were taken out of context or falsely presented around the world and yet this has never reached the headlines.

It is becoming clear that their continued persistence on the lie that the Pope and the Catholic Church has already deviated from her previous teaching is indeed an open and direct assault against the Catholic Church by the secular press.

Irresponsible Journalism: SHAME ON YOU!

ABS-CBN News Team should be ashamed of themselves for posting such a headline. It is clear that they did not make a thorough research on the matter but only rely on their international news agencies as sources.

This is a sample of irresponsible, bias and idiotic journalism coming from ABS-CBN. Having been experts in making sensational reporting out of police reports such as mugging, robberies, rapes, road accidents must have exhausted a lot of neurons.

This is their headline now:

Only shows what their goal is.

This is today's headline from the Philippine Daily Inquirer.

This one comes from the Philippine Star:

These broadsheets are becoming more useful as fishwraps for tinapa and tuyo.

Vigil for All Nascent Human Life

The Parish of the Lord of the Divine Mercy and the TLM community will be joining the Holy Father on the Vigil for all Nascent Human Life on Saturday, November 27 at 5:00pm.

As of date, we haven't heard of any statements coming from the bishops of the Philippines how they are planning to respond to the call of the Holy Father. In fact, it is to them that the Holy Father made the request to lead their respective dioceses. It seems that they are relying on the El Shaddai to organize the vigil but the Holy Father specifically asked that it be made at the parish level as well. Now we wonder how quick they will react if the Holy Father asked for a vigil for Climate Change or Charter Change.

Do you have a vigil in your parish to pray for all nascent human life? If not, join us at PLDM.

Changes in TLM Schedules in Metro Manila

The TLM at St. Therese of the Child Jesus at Villamor, Pasay City is now celebrated every Sundays at 9:00 am.

Parish of the Lord of the Divine Mercy in Sikatuna Village, Quezon City, Daily TLM is at 8:30 AM and Sunday TLM is at 2:00 PM.

Christ the King, Greenmeadows, Quezon City every Saturday TLM remains at 8:30 AM.

Jaleville Chapel TLM, Jaleville Subdivision, Paranaque City, every last Sunday of the Month TLM is scheduled at 10:00 AM but there will be slight changes on the schedule depending on the availability of the priest.

Avoid Preaching the Gospel using "Marxist rhetoric"

Raymond de Souza, a well known Catholic Apologist, director of Australia's Saint Gabriel Communication and program director of Human Life International (HLI) has reminded Filipino activists that their track of activism "...must be based on Catholic teaching that promote cooperation and not class struggle."

It is no secret that some sectors of the Philippine Church are actively promoting Marxist ideology, liberal theology and feminism in their view that Jesus Christ is nothing more but a social worker and a political/social revolutionary.

Read the report of Union of Catholic Asian News here: Filipino activists told to avoid Marxist rhetoric

UCA News covers lay activities, social work, protests, conflicts and stories on the faith lives of the millions of Catholics in Asia.

Archbishop Paciano Aniceto on the Rosary Crusade

Archbishop Paciano Aniceto invites us to unite and join the Rosary Crusade initiated by the Society of Pius X against the dreaded intrinsically anti-life and anti-family Reproductive Health Bill.

Mega Thurible

This is one huge thurible! How about putting the pro-RH bill congressmen, senators and their minions inside?

Pro Defunctis

Mass on All Souls Day in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite celebrated by Rev. Father Michell Joe Zerrudo at the Parish of the Lord of the Divine Mercy, Sikatuna Village Quezon City.