What if I told you that, right now, someone was choosing if you were gonna live or die? What if I told you that this choice wasn’t based on what you could or couldn’t do, what you’d done in the past or what you would do in the future? And what if I told you…you [...]
Archive for February, 2009
18 Feb
Foederatio Internationalis Una Voce: Comment on the Guidelines Laid Down by the Archbishop of Manila With Regard to the Extraordinary Form of Mass
There is so much in error with these guidelines that even though they mention the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum, it is clear that the person who drafted the guidelines cannot possibly have read the Motu Proprio. The writer seems unaware that the previous rigidly-controlled state that existed under the indults of 1988 (Ecclesia Dei adflicta) [...]
18 Feb
Tridentine Mass at Divine Mercy Church in Sikatuna, Quezon City
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Last Sunday, my friend and I decided to hear a Tridentine mass at the Divine Mercy Church in Sikatuna, Quezon City. It was more than an hour of travel for both of us: she came from Novaliches; I came from Makati. We met at the St. Joseph’s Shrine in the corner of Anonas Street and [...]
12 Feb
Fr. Joseph A. Mulry, S.J.: Principles for Philippine Agrarian Reform
In the view of Fr. Joseph A. Mulry (1889-1945), “the most pressing social problem in the Philippines at that time was the agrarian situation in central Luzon and in the province of Negros. In both regions, the ownership of land was limited to a comparatively few landowners, while the vast majority of the population were [...]
7 Feb
Archdiocese of Manila: Guidelines on the Celebration of the Mass According to the Rite of the Roman Missal Published in 1962 (Tridentine Mass)
In accordance with the norms laid down by the Apostolic Letter, issued motu propio, of His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI, Summorum Pontificum, We hereby establish the following guidelines and conditions on the celebration of the Mass according to the rite of the Roman Missal published in 1962 (Tridentine Mass) in the Archdiocese of Manila:
The regulation [...]
7 Feb
19th Century Apparitions in France: Rue du Bac, La Salette, and Lourdes
Bro. Francis Mary Kalvelage F. F. I., ed., You Will Make This Known to All My People: 19th Century Apparitions in France–Rue du Bac, La Salette, and Lourdes (Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate, Our Lady’s Chapel, New Bedford, MA USA, 1998), 182 pages. Imprimatur by Most Rev. Sean P. O’Malley, OFM Cap., Bishop of Fall [...]
6 Feb
Fr. Jose Calvo, S.J.: Land Reform Proposal in Spanish Colonial Philippines
Just before the mid-eighteenth century, several proposals were made for Philippine trade expansion and diversification and economic development. . . .
The next proposal came in 1753 from the Jesuit procurator Fr. Jose Calvo. He envisioned the formation of a company in Spain in order to exploit the agricultural and mineral possibilities of the Philippines and [...]
5 Feb
Beowulf: Grendel is a Descendant of Cain
Then the mighty spirit who dwelt in darkness angrily endured
the torment of hearing each day high revel in the hall.
There was the sound of the harp, the clear song of the minstrel. [1]
He who could tell of men’s beginning from olden times
spoke of how the Almighty wrought the world
the earth bright in its [...]
3 Feb
Peter Parker and Eddie Brock Jr: the Demonic Suit and the Bells of Conscience
In the cathedral scene of Spiderman 3, two persons are juxtaposed: Peter Parker and Eddie Brock Jr.
Eddie Brock Jr. (a catholic in the comics) went into the front pews, knelt, and prayed:
It’s Brock sir, Edward Brock Jr. I’m here humbled and humiliated to ask you for one thing… I want you to kill Peter Parker. [...]
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