Traditional Mass Cebu

  Happy Mother's day to all my readers This is an artwork of the Virgin Mary I made a few days ago. It was copied from an artwork from Little Mermaid II depicting Princess Ariel holding Baby Melody. You can see the Byzantine words MP OV (Mother Of God) and IC XC (Jesus Christ) common in Byzantine icons. You can see the Loreto house in the background and the Sub Tuum Praesidium prayer.

  Today, April 28, is the anniversary of the finding of the image of the Santo Nino, one of the most revered images in Filipino Christendom. On April 28, 1565, just as when Legazpi landed in Cebu City in order to claim it for Spain, Juan Camus, a Basque soldier in Legazpi's army found the image in a destroyed hut, which was blown up when Legazpi bombed the area as a result of the hostile natives. He is said to have declared, ''For Holy Mary, I found the Son of God.'' The image was later given to Legazpi and the Augustinian friars in the expedition, a church was later built on the spot where the image was found. The current structure of the Santo Nino church where the image was found was built in 1740, with renovations after World War II and the 1965 400th anniversary of the Santo Nino's founding. On April 28, 1565, the image was solemnly crowned.                                       ...

  Antonio Jose Rubi In the bible, in Matthew 24:15 it reads ‘’ When therefore you shall see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place: He that reads let him understand.’’ The meaning is that the Church of Jesus Christ, the Catholic Church will go through a time of tribulation called the ‘’Great Apostasy’’, similar to that of during the Arian Crisis. It is also known as the Mystical Passion. For many years in our churches, we had many churchgoers and attended the Latin Mass, and then the apostasy came, when in 1960s, the evil Vatican II Council broke out which abolished the sacrifice of the mass for a ‘’meal service’’. This is the Apostasy. In fact, many saints predicted this. “[In the last days the] temples of God will be like houses, and there will be overturning of the churches everywhere. The Scriptures will be despised . . . And, on the whole, from among those who profess to be Christians will rise up then false prop...

  Hello there. I am taking a hiatus from blogging for a while, especially that there has been no traditionalist priest visiting our house, and I have other works to do, especially the topic I am doing many things aside from praying the rosary. The artwork I am showing you is an artwork of an OC (original character) I made. She is a Filipina character for an upcoming project I am using to make a story set during the Spanish colonial era. The reason why I set most of my stories during the Spanish colonial era (1565 - 1898) is because most Disney Classic stories are set during the past and not modern eras. I grew up with many classic Disney films, and this is what inspired me in my early adulthood to make cartoons that reflect our Traditional Catholic and Filipino heritage. In the photo, my Filipina character is wearing a veil, a white shirt, a striped dress/skirt, a scapular (brown scapular?) with the words ''M'' meaning for Virgin Mary. She is shown holding a rosary. Dis...

 By Antonio Rubi Low Sunday, Dominica in Albis April 12, 2026 Dedicated to all the parents who resisted the wokeness and immorality of Disney from their children. As a young boy, growing up in Cebu City, because of the Spanish and American influence here in my country, I grew up with Disney cartoons and the Santo Nino devotion as a toddler. The traditional values of both old Disney and folk Catholic devotion made me inseparable for me, ( remember 500 years in a convent and 50 years in Hollywood) especially Disney was trusted as a safe film company by pre-Vatican II Catholics because it contained no immorality. I really loved Disney hand drawn films ranging from Snow White up to the Renaissance era and of course, the direct to video sequels which we will discuss later. I even prayed to Santo Nino that I will become like Walt Disney when I grew up. Not only that, I grew up with fictional educational stories, historical books and classical music like Mozart and Beethoven.  Howeve...

  The image of Our Mother of Perpetual Help was one of the first icons I was exposed to From a young age, even before I turned one years old, I was already exposed to the Byzantine rite of the church. My exposure would later help me admire the Byzantine Eastern rites as a Latin rite Catholic. St. Basil's Cathedral, Moscow My first exposure to the Byzantine rite was when I was 10 months old in Feb. 2007 in which mom bought me a book about historical landmarks featuring Mickey Mouse. I can still remember I memorized the Statue of Liberty, the Pyramids of Egypt, the Eiffel Tower and Leaning Tower of Pisa, and Mount Rushmore, which was one of the places I visited as a baby. But most of all was a segment of the book featuring St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow, Russia. I was so attached to it because of our religious family, but at the time I thought it was a Roman Catholic church. It was only years later I realized it was a Russian Orthodox Church that followed the Byzantine rite. My ...