tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48463952143087547342012-01-26T01:24:48.784+08:00The sky and earth meets not at the horizon but within the heart of each person.Iosephvshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00875040771575516574noreply@blogger.comBlogger571100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4846395214308754734.post-58055139255717552772009-05-19T20:03:00.002+08:002009-05-19T20:11:19.517+08:00

My 2-week respite was filled with me scouring my little 'Ratzingeriana'. I meditated with him in his book, 'Journey Towards Easter', a piece I bought from St. Paul's - SM Iloilo at a dirt cheap price of PhP 33. Yes folks, a Ratzinger at PhP 33 no more no less! And I reread his 1983 interview with Vittorio Messori, 'The Ratzinger Report'.On my way to Chapter IX of the latter, I stumbled upon

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The Jaro Cathedral played host the pilgrim image of Our Lady of Fatima last 12-14 February. The visit was supposed to be for the renewal and sanctification of the clergy and penitential pilgrimage.The way this opened however was very remarkable. The Most Holy Sacrifice was offered in the Jaro Cathedral, in the extraordinary form. Relishing the renewed freedom to offer this mass according to

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To my dear Batchmates,This is just an initial survey, please do reply if you find this interesting or feasible.Do you think it is possible for us (entire batch, 87 people) to gather PhP 14K by June 2009? This will be used for a meaningful project our batch can initiate for the students of your alma mater.Please tell me what you think, mail me at jsmadrinan@yahoo.com or jsvmadrinan@gmail.comI

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Andrea Tornielli was the first who "speculated" on his appointment as the replacement of Cardinal Arinze at the CDWDS. Months passed and the Catholic blogosphere buzzed about this appointment.Now the wait is over, indeed it is him, Don Antonio Cardinal Canizares-Llovera, Prince of the Holy Roman Church and Archbishop of Toledo, the primate of Spain, is now the newly appointed Cardinal Prefect of

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 One of the most awaited event in the school year is the intamural. This is an event where students take their time off from academic rigor and shift their competitive energies to the more physical dimension.That precisely was what happened. With all four batches competing in various sports, everyone saw a different Pisay. A Pisay suddenly filled with the humdrum of heavy footsteps of cheerers

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 Deep hiatus is now over as Pisay once again has internet connexion. This will only be the first of more pics and blogs to come about Intrams '08.-Jost

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A Civilisation Will Choose This FallOver the long weekend I had, I was able to read Juvenal's Satires I-VII. Though this piece of literature is more of a read for classics majors than history majors, however, one can glean with it the life in decadent Rome.With a long period of the Pax Romana waning, Rome slid into a state of moral disorder. Juvenal unsuspectedly blamed this on the absence of

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It was not your usual Friday.It wasn't because, yesterday, I felt so touched by an e-mail of my high school classmate. After her family, she ventured to tell us a very sensitive matter. Touching because perhaps this is how she values us indeed, her true friends, her second-family.They say high school life is indeed memorable, I say high school life was about enlarging my family. For years now,

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There are 5 days in the year which are my most favourite. 1. Easter Sunday2. Christmas3. Feast of the Immaculate Conception4. Feast of Saint Josemaria EscrivaAnd the feast today: The Feast of the DORMITION of the THEOTOKOS.

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The Vatican Bans Pronouncing the Holy Name of God (Tetragramatton) in the LiturgyThis is very interesting!I think we can approach this renewed law from the CDWDS as a gentle reminder to treat holy things as holy! Especially names! There is a reason why Juliet's famous line in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is "wherefore art thou O Romeo?", it is because to the question "what's in a name?" the

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Marketing The "New" New Mass!And you thought traddies and liturgical lovers are cranky old maids living in the attic! Wait till you see this wonderfully made marketing Ad for the New Rite of the Mass according to Benedict XVI. It's 50% less Bugnini, mind you.

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Dinner at La Tegola One of the joys my friends and I enjoy is food, especially Italian food. I remember spending Sundays thinking and cooking our own "Italian" mixes. Here is dinner with one of my college friend now working in Cebu. La Tegola is one of the finest Ristorante Italiani in Cebu. Though we only had Pasta al oglio, it was very delicious. And the four-seasons pizza... oh so

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Opening of the School Year Message(delivered, 2-June-2008, PSHS-WVC) Ten years ago, the sun was setting, wearily shining its last vermillion ray behind the shadow of a large mountain; a thirteen year-old lad was walking by the seashore, as if counting the number of sands he has stepped on. For him it was his last day on what he has called home as far as he could remember. The next day he

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This is from a very good interview from a Legionary of Christ priest. Transcript is taken from Zenit 12-Jun. A Well-Rounded Pope Interview on Benedict XVI's Qualities and Fundamental IdeasBy Gisèle Plantec ROME, JUNE 11, 2008 (Zenit.org).- Benedict XVI is impressive in his well-rounded character -- a man who goes easily from playing the piano to visiting world leaders to explaining to

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The First Weeks of School Being back in the school where you graduated sometimes fill you with strange emotions of mixed joy and sadness. Joy, because of the happy memories you had in the place where you were mentally nurtured. For my case, since I stayed on-campus, I grew up in this school, even emotionally and psychologically. Sadness, because all of these are just memories, how you

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As vacation is starting to finish, countdown to 'new' work begins. Next Tuesday, 13 of May, I'd start teaching in my high school alma mater in Iloilo.Being on vacation feels good, I was able to restore my circadian rythm back to it's University, pre-career state of full 8-hours of sleep everyday! I also lost some 5-lbs, though kind of below my summer target of 15-lbs. Most of all this vacation

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Bidding Farewell to HP Saying good-byes is not really my kind of thing. For as long as we are breathing there is no need of a farewell. And even when we pass on to the next life, I would like to think that we shall all meet in the joy of being in front of God, adoring him and loving him. I would rather take this opportunity to offer each one of you my gratefulness. This year was a

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Today, Holy Mother Church celebrates the feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In today’s feast, 9-mos prior to Dec. 25, we remember with special attention the Incarnation of the Word of God through the wonderful fiat, yes, of the Theotokos. Thus, this feast has two sides. First, we celebrate the mysterious work of God, who for the love of mankind, stooped down to the

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Somewhere in the Philippines, a parish celebrated an Easter Mass with an empty crucifix, allegedly because Christ has Risen! This has sparked a discussion in an e-mail group I subscribe to. Here is a reply that I posted in that group. I personally find it distressing that we are following suit from our heretic protestant brothers in this respect. About 500 years ago, Protestants of

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Hebdomada Sancta MMVIIII haven’t really been used to celebrations of the Holy Week “a les Philippines”. In my province, we do not have the custom of “penitensya” or self-flagellants, roaming around, or people who get themselves crucified. From my childhood, the only Holy Week practices I know are praying the Via Crucis, going through the Triduum celebrations, fasting and abstinence on Good

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Spy Wednesday Unknown to most Catholics, today is traditionally called Spy Wednesday. The etymology is taken from tradition. It is said that on this day, the day before the first Maundy Thursday, Judas Iscariot presented himself to the chief priest and the scribes in order to betray Jesus Christ. There are a lot of things to be leant from the story of Judas’ betrayal of his master.

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from The New Liturgical Movement:Here is a new site of the Divine Office according to the Rite of 1962. For those who have good internet connexion, this is truly a gift.Click here to go to the site: Divine Office

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You Are GarlicOf all the spice types, you are the most universally loved.You get long with pretty much everyone, and you leave a lasting impression.You adapt yourself well to situations. You can fit in or stand out, depending on what you're called on to do.What Spice Are You?

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At vespers today, until tomorrow, the Catholic Church breaks the discipline of Lent to give honour to her Patron, the Blessed St. Joseph, spouse of Mary, Theotokos. Likewise the owner of this blog give honour to this holy man, who was appointed by God to be custodian of his only Son, Our Lord, Jesus and of his most perfect creature, Mary, Our Mother. This blog as is the owner, is

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I've been following this news from all over, about the Vatican adding "new" sins to its "list".Please do not bite into this crap fed to us by our wonderfully MIS-informed press/media.First, there is no such list! We are not pharisees, we do not have a Talmud and a list like the halacah, or the 613 mitzvot of orthodox Juadaism. There are sins enumerated in Sacred Scripture, in the Catechism etc.

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In matters of patriotism, diplomacy and politics in general, no doubt the first person that comes into my mind is Armand Jean du Plessis de Richelieu, Cardinal-Duc de Richelieu, first minister of France for 18-years. With him the monarchy of France has cemented its institutions, the most awesome in the world during that time. The French Court became the model of government throughout

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Boy, I’m just so glad, last Saturday I got my new Baronius Hand Missal of 1962, Summorum Pontificum Edition! Totus Bookstore has made this available in the Philippines. So far it is the only bookstore here to have made this move. This bookstore has really through it’s expectation of being the only Catholic Bookstore of pure Orthodoxy here in Manila. Some very good features of this

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February 14: STS. CYRIL, MONK AND METHODIUS, BISHOP – CO-PATRONS OF EUROPE These two brothers were from Thessalonica, Greece. Methodius was born in 815 and Cyril in 827. Both became priests and shared the same holy desires to spread the faith. They became missionaries to the Slav nations of Moravia, Bohemia and Bulgaria. This is how it happened: In 862, just seven years before

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Spring Embertide12 nunc ergo dicit Dominus convertimini ad me in toto corde vestro in ieiunio et in fletu et in planctu 13 et scindite corda vestra et non vestimenta vestra et convertimini ad Dominum Deum vestrum quia benignus et misericors est patiens et multae misericordiae et praestabilis super militia 12 Now therefore saith the Lord: Be converted to me with all your heart, in fasting,

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[Picture of Fr. Bishop celebrating mass will be posted here as soon as GC gives me permission to hijack his pictures] The Day a Bishop Celebrated an Extraordinary Mass In his immaculate white cassock buttoned with the purple of his Episcopal office, and his zucchetto, Father Bishop Gregorio (forgive the imprecise term, this is my term of endearment for every bishop) processed towards the

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A Layman Reflects on the Life in the Cell In this highly secularized society we live in, more and more it has become rare to speak of a life of simplicity, of solitude, of utter spiritual poverty, in short the life of a cloistered recluse. Quite often we are very much caught with the cares of day-to-day urban existence, of which channel to tune-in to when you wake up, which conditioner to

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Rome...Rome...RomeHow sad it is to have read in one of the feeds I get everyday that a religious described (though half-jokingly, as the writer commented) his superior as someone who does not love Rome. A Catholic, any Christian at that, must set his heart always towards that eternal city. "Civita aeterna" is not some mere figurative title given to Rome, it is called so as an allusion to the

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I am publishing here in full the address of His Excellency, Francis Cardinal Arinze, Cardinal-Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments (CDWDS). This came in out in three-installments from Zenit.org the number 1 Catholic Daily over the web.It has been the consistent position of the owner of this blog since it's inception that Latin has to be

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The Mass As It Should Be!The Holy Father Using His Throne; People Intent In PrayerAd OrientemReverence to the Our LordHow I relish to see this day when the Holy Father himself celebrated publicly the Mass of Paul VI ad orientem. For the information of everyone, the GIRM presupposes this position (without expressing it because it is afterall a presupposition- a given), this is the NORMAL way of

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Sometime I Think Clocks Work Backwards for most People of Today I don’t know if this is just the stupidity of the “Modern Age”. But it’s just that we don’t get it right most of the time in our celebrations. During the Advent Season, that 4-Sundays-long preparation for Christmas, all Catholics over the world are trying to deny themselves of little comforts for the coming of the Infant Jesus.

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Jagna's Padre CuraOn this year’s Christmas vacation, I will make it a point to give thanks to our Parish Priest, Msgr. Orie Jubac, who is also our diocesan Episcopal vicar. He is one of those rare breed of a priest who still continuously preach the sacrament of confession, at the pulpit. His homilies are not politically tweaked, rather they are orthodox and backed by the teachings of

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Why is the Traditional Latin Mass also called the Classical Roman Rite? The word ‘Classic’ in the usage of the Classical Roman Rite to mean the Mass according to the Missal of Pius V through John XXIII, denotes something which has become timeless. It does not refer to the mass in any period of Christian history, not the 1st-4th centuries, not the Gothic era, not the Middle Ages nor that of

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A Year of BloggingA year and eight days have passed since I first wrote something in this blog. Since then, this space has taken a lot of turns to give way to articles from various topics, from contraception, to the Index Librorum, from secular life to Catholic thought. True enough blogging has altered the ways people get their thought written. Blogging has also become one of the newest

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The Cowardly Anarchist Strikes Again, Fails Again I was on my way to assist at Holy Mass at the Our Lady of Guadalupe Chapel of Banco de Oro Tower-2 when I was stopped by the security guard. Apparently the chapel was closed until further notice, and that no mass would be held at noon that day. Naturally I asked why because this would be the only available mass for me to attend to on that day?

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When I'm lost for words, when I can't write one letter more and tiredness stands in between me and my digital parchment, I can only gasp for breath thinking after my dear beloved:Jesus, He whom I live for;Mary, ma chere et douce maman, and;Peter, Oh Sweet Jesus on earth.

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Folks,Hay (sigh), sometimes I'm tempted to just keep quiet when Rina Jimenez-David (RJD) writes something about reproductive health, contraception or women's rights. She's just so exasperating, maybe no amount of letters to the editor will ever wake her senses up. We might just as well pray hard for her conversion (for something to rock her brains that hard!)AT LARGE Dying while giving life

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Index Librorum Prohibitorum A common misconception among catholics of today is the idea that the Index is irrelevant already. The Index is a list of prohibited books and or authors created and updated by the Universal and Holy Inquisition (today known as the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith), which carried with it the heaviest penalty of excommunication should one viciously go

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Governor-Priest Returns Suspicious Gift to MalacananGov. Panlilio surely deserved to be commended for showing delicadeza to Malacanan, a trait so rarely found among our politicians these days. However, the service of Gov. Panlilio in secular affairs, no matter how commendable, ipso facto- by itself, is a great disservice to Holy Mother Church. The work of saving souls through the conferment

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Understanding Everything at MassIn a mail group a question was once raised on whether it is licit to use a powerpoint presentation at Mass? Here is my pence-worth on the question.The urge to use powerpoint presentations in todays liturgy, in my opinion, comes from the very misunderstanding that "everything in the mass must be understood". This is the line of reasoning adopted by those who

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How Women’s Reproductive Rights Advocates are Killing Their Own Kind! Based from the recent article released in TIME magazine, Oct.15, Breast Cancer has been spreading at an alarming rate throughout the world, most especially in developing countries. And then it succinctly underlines the role of adopting western habits from food to exercise, all aggravators of genetic mutations which later

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Fruit Punches, Vodka and Tequila The sweet tangy taste of Gin in fruit juice slushed with fresh apples and oranges started that afternoon cocktail meant to celebrate Gisela’s acceptance in a renowned French-Filipino Pearl farm. Gisela being one of Graviton’s certified true scientist having just recently graduated as a Marine Biologist. One of those professions I only saw in the Career in

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It was a wonderful time to be home. For 9 straight years I never attended our town fiesta as a matter of academic necessity. It being inauspiciously placed at the tail-end of September just when final exams are about to start, our town fiesta has always been but a faint memory from childhood. This year fresh from university graduation, freed from all academic rigors, I was able to obtain a

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Excerpts of Errors Condemned by Pope St. Pius X through the Syllabus Lamentabili Sane I was just amazed at how prophetic these condemnations were and the sad reality of how modernism has really crept even within the ranks of some of the clergy! I guess 1 Athanasian Creed said every Sunday for the faithfulness of the theologians should be said so this whole thing will be put to a stop before

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Cum autem ieiunatis, nolite fieri sicut hypocritae tristes; demoliuntur enim facies suas, ut pareant hominibus ieiunantes. Amen dico vobis: Receperunt mercedem suam. 17 Tu autem cum ieiunas, unge caput tuum et faciem tuam lava, 18 ne videaris hominibus ieiunans sed Patri tuo, qui est in abscondito; et Pater tuus, qui videt in abscondito, reddet tibi. (Mat VI 16-18)Today, on Friday and on Saturday

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Revolution: a criticism through Joseph Conrad’s “Under Western Eyes” An explosion, an ominous spark of revolutionary violence and a dangerous portent of anarchy, against the backdrop of a St. Petersburg all covered in snow and an autocracy whose very existence is slowly tearing apart, thus starts J. Conrad’s “Under Western Eyes”. The novel is a startling story set at the start of the

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I first encountered the Latin Mass two years ago when I was in my penultimate year in the university. It was an admixture of reason that made me curious to attend one. Fresh from having studied Basic Latin that summer on my own, as well curiosity on things ancient, I surfed the internet for such a mass in Manila. I found out that the only such mass in Metro Manila- the capital of Catholic

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On the question, can we pray to God for the forgiveness of the sins or faults of others? Objection 1: It seems that it is inappropriate to ask God to forgive the sins of others because sins committed after baptism are personal in nature. They are, as we say, a personal decision to go directly against the will of God for us and to offend him so. Hence, it being a personal act, another

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I can’t help copying the style of Fr. Zuhldorfs with this opinion from the Philippines number 1 daily. A step backwards By Rina Jimenez-DavidInquirerLast updated 02:06am (Mla time) 07/10/2007 As a child, I tended to look on the Sunday Mass as a tiresome ritual we were coerced into taking part in. First of all, my mother, out of some unexplainable impulse, insisted on hearing Mass early in

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Many people imagine that engineers should excel at number crunching, while with words… well they can always have the excuse, “we’re engineers”! I’m sorry to disappoint you, but I certainly loathe a page-full of numbers, I get dizzy looking at matrices, vectors and all those Greek alphabet containing equations and most of all I’m miserable with calculations. I’d rather read a Victorian novel by

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I've never tried writing journals or diaries so I'm not surprised if after 4 months of creating a blog I've never gotten past 2 entries. Guinness should be calling me any minute now for the world record of blog least used or that kind of thing!Oh well this useless runt won't be for anything, graduation time is coming for me and stress levels are shooting-up... It's an old university epidemic

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Blogging from an inconspicuous town, perhaps situated at the end of the world, is one hell of an experience! I'm on vacation right now, a respite from the dizzying world of Manila and a Graduating status... whew, good thing we have vacations! Back here where everything seems to run lazily, and everybody simply takes their time, the rhythm sometimes amazes me, it's a far cry from City life,

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