FILIPINO TRADITIONAL ROMAN CATHOLIC: An Opinion

There is a very interesting news item I read at yahoonews. A quote from the article runs this way:

"Public Works Secretary Hermogenes Ebdane on Wednesday wants a representative from the Catholic Church to help the department in ensuring transparency in the bidding of government projects. Ebdane made the proposal after the World Bank blacklisted seven construction firms that allegedly rigged bids for local road projects funded by the agency." [Yahoo News emphasis supplied]

My simple opinion is that while it is good that government agencies recognize the Church hierarchy as a moral force for honesty, it is not a good idea however that the Church should be involve in direct activities of public life such as the bidding of government projects. The Church teaches the gospel and encourages her members to live the gospel values, yet it is not prudent to be directly involve in bidding projects just to make sure that honesty and transparency is observed. The mission of the church is not to get involved in government activities but to teach the gospel of Christ. It is only when the gospel teachings have sunk into the hearts of men and women that they can be honest and transparent. Hence, it is not the presence of a church representative that could make the process transparent but the living gospel if lived by men and women will make all these process a good one. - This is just my opinion.

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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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