Traditional Mass Cebu

  Catalina ang bulahan (Catalina the Blessed) is a poem about the heroine Catalina Santos (1655 - 1727) regarding her heroic deeds of defending 17th century Cebu from Moro raids. It invokes her fight against the Moro Ali Pagtuga in 1670, and as well as invoking her against the modernist West controlling the Philippines. It compares her with heroes like Datu Daya of Bantayan, a pre-colonial Datu of Cebu who fought against Moro pirates in the medieval era, as well as Dona Jimena, the wife of the knight El Cid, and Queen Isabella I the Catholic. This poem was composed by Antonio Rubi for the feast of St. James Cebuano lyrics: Opening verse: O Santiago, O Santiago, 1.       Catalina ang bulahan, Bulahang Sugbuanon, Siya nga nakig-away kang Ali Pagtuga, Bulahan ka nga nakig-away batok sa magalong Moro. Kung wala ka, ang yuta sa Sugbo dili mahimong gawasnon Refrain: Ikaw, O alagad sa Dios, sama kang Dona Jimena ug Dona Isabella. Gipalaya nimo ang among yuta g...

  The fortress of Fray Bermejo in Bolhoon used to fight off the Moros By Antonio Rubi Written for the feast of Saint James the Great Everyone, especially traditionalists know the Crusades, about knights in shining armor fighting the Mohammedans in the Holy Land. From Pope Urban II, Godfrey of Bouillon, Richard the Lionheart, Saladin, and King St. Louis IX. For every parent especially in the United States or in the West, this article is for you. But what is less known is that there were also crusades in my country, the Philippines during the Spanish era, notably as an offshoot of the Spanish Reconquista which ended in 1492.  The Philippines was conquered by Conquistador Legazpi in 1565, and conquered Manila in 1571, where the Spanish fought the Mohammedan Rajah Suleiman. There is also the 1578 Brunei war between the Spanish and the Sultanate of Brunei also known as the Castilian War. One of the crusaders I admire is Father Agustin de San Pedro (1599 - 1653/1660) who was a Portu...

                                     At last, the first color portrait of Dona Catalina Santos (1655 - 1727) has been made. It was done by the daughter of my mom's friend. Dona Catalina stands as a forgotten, but unbowed heroine, who fought for Cebu, the Philippines, Spain and the Catholic Church. She may have fought Moro pirates in the past, but now fights alongside her husband Alejandro (1643 - 1701) and Fray Julian Bermejo (1777 - 1851) against the modernist and corrupt West which removed Christ and devotes itself to secularism. While the Disney Princesses have a hundred thousand fans here in my country, Catalina's fans are only a small remnant who are ready to defend the faith. Catalina's few fans remind me of the Catholic Church reduced to a remnant while the Novus Ordo is praised everywhere. Catalina was born in Mandawi (now Mandaue) on November 25, 1655 and was named in honor of Catheri...

                                                      The author with a picture of the tragic Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette and Nicholas II. ''Louis XVI was the Tsar Nicholas of France, Tsar Nicholas was the Louis XVI of Russia'' - Antonio Rubi Most of you are familiar with the murder of Tsar Nicholas and his family by the evil Bolsheviks and that they are venerated in the Russian schismatic church and a little bit by some Russian Catholics, both of the Latin rite and Byzantine Rite Catholics, and that how he is similar to the fate of King Louis XVI of France, both killed under the orders of Robespierre and Lenin respectively.  From a Catholic perspective, regarding the fate of Russia, Our Lady of Fatima predicted to consecrate Russia to her Immaculate Heart, and that Russia would spread her errors. I believe the errors of Russia will be communism. In...

 By Antonio Rubi Everyone knows the Walt Disney Company, how it was founded in 1923 and started with a mouse in 1928, and everyone knows it compromised since Disney died and as a result of Vatican II and modernism, it succumbed to bad teaching. But did you know that Disney was one of the main factors in making me traditionalist Catholic? When I was a toddler, I grew up with many things Disney. I liked watching their cartoons, and enjoyed their characters, specifically the Princess characters. I watch various Disney shows, but I only appreciate two, Snow White (1937) and Alice in Wonderland (1951). The rest of the Disney shows were watched through an educational program and through books, and some of the movies I would not see until I was 18 years old. Specifically, I appreciate more on the princess classics, even if I am a boy myself. While most Disney Princess fans are girls, there were boys that grew up with them. There were lots of boys who grew up watching Snow White and all th...

 I would like to tell you that today, July 14, 2026 is my 20th baptism anniversary. Unlike most Filipino youth who were baptized in the Novus ordo sect in the Philippines, I was baptized by an Old Catholic bishop (my mom thought he was Catholic at the time) named Bishop Jean Marie Kozik. Old Catholic sacraments are valid but illicit, similar to the Eastern Orthodox schismatics. As of the moment now, I am busy having some personal problems, so I would like to ask you to pray for me. It is a coincidence that my baptism falls on the Bastille day in which French revolutionaries stormed the Bastille fortress marking the beginning of the French Revolution. However, I side with the oppressed King Louis XVI and his family. During my toddler years, I was exposed to various marvelous things like classic stories compared to the youth of the late 2000s. One of the illustrations and books I grew up were reading historical and educational books, children's books from the 1950s to 1990s, like Lit...