FILIPINO TRADITIONAL ROMAN CATHOLIC: Lipa Apparition of Our Lady, Mediatrix of All Grace

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Lipa Apparition of Our Lady, Mediatrix of All Grace

I've read a very interesting news in the Philippine Daily Inquirer.net which reported "that Lipa Archbishop Ramon Arguelles has formed a new commission to revisit the series of apparitions of the Virgin Mary at the Carmel monastery in Lipa, Batangas, in 1948." For a full report follow the link above.

I found this interesting because I remember a childhood experience. When I was eight years old I fould this old image of Our Lady hidden under the closet wrapped in old news papers. I asked my late grandfather why such a beautiful image of our Lady was hidden inside the closet, he told me that the Church has forbidden the veneration of the image because of the controversy that has arisen over the Lipa Apparition. I clearly heard my Grandfather that it is best to obey the orders of the Church and obey the directives of the hierarchy rather than our own feelings and sentiments. Those were the early lessons I;ve learned about obedience. Obedience entails humility because you have to submit to the teaching authority of the Church. I am glad that the message of the Lipa apparitions are being revisited. I too believe that our Lady is the Mediatrix of All Grace as prophesied in Genesis 3:15. Wioth confidence I can always state the ejaculation - Oh Mary conceived without sin pray for us who have recourse to thee." Those of you who want to read about what happend to the visonary and other personalities involved in this manifestation you may read the article "Vindicated, novice of Lipa apparitions keeps low profile" from the PDI

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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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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Lipa Apparition of Our Lady, Mediatrix of All Grace

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