Posts Tagged ‘Archdiocese of Manila’

Archdiocese of Manila: Plenary Indulgence for Visita Iglesia in the Year of the Priests

MANILA, Oct. 8, 2009—Plenary indulgence can be granted to the faithful who visit some churches in the Archdiocese of Manila in observance of the Year for Priests.
The measure was made by the archdiocese’s chancery with a decree dated September 25, 2009.
In accordance with the decree, the faithful can receive the plenary indulgence when they make [...]

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The Liturgical Year and Inculturation: 13th Asian Liturgy Forum

THE LITURGICAL YEAR AND INCULTURATION
13th A s I a n L i t u r g y F o r u m (ALF)
South-East Asian Region,
September 16-20, 2009
Bahay Pari, San Carlos Pastoral Formation Complex, Edsa, Makati City
We, the delegates to the 13th Asian Liturgy Forum of South-East Asia, met from September 16-19, [...]

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Archdiocese of Manila: Pastoral letter on Sunday celebration of the Eucharist

Last June 14, 2009, on the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ, Gaudencio B. Cardinal Rosales, Archbishop of Manila, issued a pastoral letter on the Sunday celebration of the Eucharist entitled, “Without Sunday we cannot live.” The full letter is 36 pages long (see pdf), divided into three parts.   I shall provide [...]

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Episcopal Commission on Liturgy of the Catholic Bishop’s Conference of the Philippines: Clarification of the Archdiocese of Manila on Summorum Pontificum and the Tridentine Mass

Episcopal Commission on Liturgy
Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines
CLARIFICATIONS ON SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
Pope Benedict XVI published the Apostolic Letter Summorum Pontificum on July 7, 2007 with effectivity on September 14, 2007. The Episcopal Commission on Liturgy received several requests to clarify certain issues regarding its contents and implementation.
1. What is the aim of the Apostolic [...]

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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) [...]

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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 [...]

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Book Review: “Exorcism: Encounters with the Paranormal and the Occult”

The Ateneo Catechetical Instruction League (ACIL) asked me to give a talk this afternoon on the paranormal and the occult. I have given the same talk last year when I was still a facilitator of ACIL-Escopa, about a week after Fr. Jose Francisco C. Syquia, Director of the Archdiocese of Manila Office of Exorcism, [...]

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