FILIPINO TRADITIONAL ROMAN CATHOLIC: The Saint of Desperate Cases

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

The Saint of Desperate Cases

2^nd Class Feast SS. Simon and Jude, Apostles

Deus, qui nos per beatos Apostolus tuos Simonem et Judam, ad agnitionem tui nominis venire tribuisti : da nobis eorus gloriam sempiternam et proficiendo celebrare et celebrando proficere. Per Dominum nostrum Jesum Chritum Filium tuum… Collecta

It was said that although St. Gregory the illuminator was considered the founder of Christianity in Armenia, there is a long standing tradition that St. Jude Thaddeus was the first apostle to perform baptism in Armenia. There is a long standing tradition that devotion to St. Jude was avoided by Christians in the past because his name was similar to that of Judas Iscariot. St. Jude however is more associated with Simon the Zealot and is a different person from that of Judas Iscariot. St. Jude is also known as the saint of desperate cases because he stand ready to aid and help those who call upon his intercession. Such as his readiness to help thus the fervent devotion he receives from Christians. In the Philippines St. Jude is venerated by the Filipino-Chinese community.

St. Jude Pray for us.

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A 13 years old boy............. in 1983, but now I am a golden boy, gaining weight and wiser, but younger at heart. I consider myself as a “novus ordo baby” because I was born in the late 60s after the 2nd Vatican Council introduced the novus ordo missae and grew up confronted by the confusions as a result. Like my generation I never saw what the church was like prior to Vatican II, but I am a living witness to the gradual disappearance of religious traditions we hold dear. Young as I was then I could not understand what was going on. But I suffered the sense of loss as I saw how the modernizing influence in the church disfigured the liturgy and clouded the way we believe and practice our faith. But then being a child, powerless, not knowing what it was, and why it happened, I simply drifted into the sea of confusion, too young to understand. With a glimmer of faith in my heart, planted by baptism and confirmation, strengthened by the sound teachings of my parents and grandparents, I sailed into the sea of life, day after day, seeing the changes happen, feeling the sense of abandonment, yet God was merciful to me. In 2005 I discovered the Traditional Latin Mass or commonly known in the post-conciliar period as the Tridentine Mass. I began to love the rite of mass that has nourished my ancestors, the saints and the martyrs. I am eternally grateful to His Holiness Pope John Paul II for recognizing the rightful aspirations of Catholics attached to the ancient forms of the Roman Rite through his apostolic letter ECCLESIA DEI DI AFFLICTA. I am also eternally grateful to His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI for liberating the Traditional Latin Mass through his apostolic letter Summorum Pontificum. I fully agree with the program of his pontificate regarding the Hermeneutics of Continuity and disdain the hermeneutics of rupture. Today I consider myself a Traditional Roman Catholic attached to the liturgical discipline of 1962 as outlined in the Motu Proprio SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM of his Holiness. I believe that there is only one Roman Rite, the Ordinary and the Extraordinary and that the Mass in whatever form should be celebrated with dignity. My voyage is on. Join me in this quest.

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Tuesday, October 28, 2008

The Saint of Desperate Cases

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