Traditional Mass Cebu

  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 ...

  Just recently, I just received this flag called Spas Nerukotvorny (The Holy Face of Jesus) as a birthday and Easter gift. This flag which is originally Eastern Orthodox is sometimes used by some Traditionalist Catholics. The flag was used historically by saints like Alexander Nevsky, Dmitry Donskoy, Kuzma Minin and Dmitry Pozharsky, and various Russian Tsars. I am planning on having this flag blessed by a traditionalist priest and using it for Traditionalist Catholic campaigns. The flag is based on the Holy Mandylion of Edessa, given by Saint Jude (my grandmother's favorite saint) to the king Abgar of Edessa. For more on the Holy Face devotion, you may click this site: https://www.traditioninaction.org/religious/a059_HolyFace.html

  Christ Has Risen! Indeed He Has Risen! To my dear readers of the blog. Last April 4 was the day of my birthday, but since it fell on Holy Saturday, I decided to move it to Easter Week from Easter Sunday of April 5 to April 7. This April 2026, I turned 20 years old, having been born on Apr. 4, 2006 in the State of IL, but now currently living in Cebu City in the Philippines. Sometime in May to June 2006, my mom encountered a traditionalist Franciscan priest named Father Martin Stepanich, OFM, STD (theologian). He foretold to my mother that I will become a traditionalist, but my mom, who was used to the Novus Ordo did not know what a traditionalist was. Father Stepanich explained to her about the Latin Mass, and my mom remembered the stories of my maternal grandmother that she used to attend the Latin Mass in the Santo Nino Church. I was later baptized on Jul. 14, 2006 by a French-Polish Old Catholic bishop named Bishop Jean Marie Kozik of Fraternite Notre Dame. In September 2006, ...

  Just this March 31, President Trump issued a statement condemning transgender ideology pushed on children by the Democrats. “Two years ago today, the Biden Administration desecrated Easter Sunday with a ‘transgender’ message that elevated radical leftist ideology over faith, family, and biological truth,” begins the  March 31 statement . “This Easter season, the Trump Administration is celebrating a decisive victory: the swift and unrelenting dismantling of subversive, woke policies that endangered children, eroded women’s rights, assaulted common sense, and dragged America toward moral and cultural decline.” In my opinion, this does not make sense. Despite the Republicans being supposedly conservative, many of them are very liberals. There are many homosexuals and transgenders that support the Republicans. According to the GOP, it is fine to be an LGBT as long as you keep it to yourself and do not terrorize children. From a Catholic perspective, this needs to be fact checke...

  A response to the anti-friar narratives present in the Philippines   Antonio Jose Rubi Dedicated to the memory of Fray Julian Bermejo (1777 – 1851), military priest of Southern Cebu who fought and defended his people. For most Filipino youth, the Spanish friars are seen as villains who oppress Filipino people during the colonial era, specifically regarding Rizal’s novels Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo, especially when it comes to Father Damaso, the main villain of the first novel. The novels inspired many revolutionaries to go anti-Catholic and to kill friars. But contrary to the bias being propagated by schools and many youths of today, many Spanish friars are not the Padre Damaso in stories. In fact, some of them were protectors of oppressed people. For example, Father Martin de Rada, an Augustinian priest in fact protested against the Encomienda system being pushed by Spanish conquistadors, and the first Bishop of Manila, Domingo de Salazar, campaigned agains...

  To all my dear readers. As of the moment, I am starting to promote devotion to the militant priest of Southern Cebu, Fray Julian Bermejo, OSA, both for internal and external reasons. This son of Saint Augustine was born in 1777 in the town of Pardillo in Ciudad Real, Spain. In July 1793, in the midst of the anti-Catholic French Revolution, he made his vows as an Augustinian friar. In December 1795, he set sail for the Philippines, where in the San Agustin Monastery in Manila, studied to become a priest. He then later went to the Convent of the Santo Nino, (now the Basilica) where he learned Visayan languages. He was later ordained a Catholic priest in the early 1800s by Bishop Ignacio de Salamanca. On October 9, 1802, Padre Bermejo was assigned to the Southern town of Bolhoon, which 20 years earlier was destroyed in a raid of Mohammedan Moros from Mindanao. There, he served the Cebuano people with the Traditional Latin Mass, and taught the locals to fight Moro pirates, funded b...