FILIPINO TRADITIONAL ROMAN CATHOLIC: PROMOTION AND BEING PROMOTED

Saturday, August 27, 2016

PROMOTION AND BEING PROMOTED

MY PERSONAL REFLECTION THIS SUNDAY 22^nd Sunday in ordinary time.

The gospel reading for today is taken from Luke 14:1-7; 14. Many commentators have explained the need for humility and how our Lord taught us the importance of being humble. But in this reading I would like to reflect on one dimension that sometimes failed to get the attention of our pastors. In verse 14 it says, “Then he said to the host who invited him, “When you hold a lunch or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or your wealthy neighbors, in case they may invite you back and you have repayment. Rather, when you hold a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind; blessed indeed will you be because of their inability to repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.” This verse calls for action with a futuristic end. It says “for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.” How many of our pastors today still speaks about the resurrection? About the future life? Are our pastors directing us towards this end-time goal? I seldom hear our pastors today speaks about sin, about hell and about heaven. This tendency is even reflected in the way we conduct our liturgy. At the end of the liturgy there is a long list of acknowledgement, thanking the servers, the choirs, the lectors and commentators for what they have done for the people of God during the Mass. Have we forgotten, what our Lord said, “blessed indeed will you be because of their inability to repay you.
For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous”. If we received acknowledgement for what we did today, we shall no longer be repaid in heaven because we have received our wages on earth. If your right hand does something good, do not let the left hand know that your right hand is doing. For your Father in heaven will reward you. But if today you received your acclaim, then you have already received your reward.

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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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Saturday, August 27, 2016

PROMOTION AND BEING PROMOTED

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