FILIPINO TRADITIONAL ROMAN CATHOLIC: September 2012

Saturday, September 8, 2012

GOD BLESS LEBANON

Let us pray for a safe journey for Pope Benedict XVI to Lebanon on September 14-16, 2012

I DON'T THINK THAT the Roman Catholic Church is outdated. This is because the doctrine of God does not change. We are called as well as other humans to adjust themselves not to changing times but to adapt the changing times to the Doctrines of God. The Church should not open its doors to worldly influences. Rather the church should dared to be different. As Christ said that we are suppose to be the salt of the earth. We are suppose to give flavor to a world otherwise deadened by sins. Many of our doctrines are now under attack by the world such as the teachings on life, death and sexuality. The church is made to appear obsolete and there is the constant pressure to accede to worldly/sinful influences. But as Christians we should dare to be different, we should dare to be unpopular. Christ our master was never popular during His earthly days. He was even crucified and reviled by the world. Even His disciples abandoned Him. This is the reason why Bishops have crosses hanging on their chests. Crosses without the corpus because in that cross the Bishop like his master should be ready to be crucified on account of the Gospel. We too lay members are suppose to carry our cross. Hence we are labelled as outdated, so let it be. We should be willing to carry our cross. This is the path to eternal life. Only few finds it.

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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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FILIPINO TRADITIONAL ROMAN CATHOLIC

Saturday, September 8, 2012

GOD BLESS LEBANON

THE CHURCH IS NEVER OUTDATED

The Word Made Flesh

Tu es Petro (You are Peter...)

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