FILIPINO TRADITIONAL ROMAN CATHOLIC: The Lights of Christmas

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

The Lights of Christmas

Awashed in Light: Christ the King Plaza in front of the Centuries Old Parish Church in Tabaco City

I am glad that the plaza in front of our church had been refurbished and restored to its beauty. Tonight while passing through the plaza on my way home, I cant help it but admire its beauty. I took this snap shot using my mobile phone. Filipinos love to celebrate lights as symbols of Christmas. To this effect every home and every public places are decorated with paper lanterns shaped like a star. This paper lanterns are shaped by a bamboo frame and then covered by Japanese papers of varying colors. And I am also happy that in our country Christmas is celebrated with the images of the manger and the child Christ. Unlike in other countries where the display of this religious symbols are forbidden, here in our country we celebrate Christmas and we know that we celebrate it because of Christ. Christmas will never be Christmas without Jesus Christ. "For God so love the world that He gave His only begotten Son so that whosoever believes in Him will not perish but will have everlasting life."

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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, December 16, 2008

The Lights of Christmas

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