Traditional Mass Cebu

  Catalina Santos Today, I had just started working on my counter-Disney story, Alejandro and Catalina. If you do not know what the story is, it is similar to a Disney Princess story but with Catholic themes. It is set in the 17th century Cebu during the Spanish colonial era. This story is going to blow the minds of many Catholics who most of their life had been exposed to the pagan Disney characters. If you do not know who Catalina is, she was created to combat the pagan Disney characters who have ruled the Philippines. She was originally a character demo named ''Ophelia'', who was adapted into the character we know today as Catalina.  Her creation was started as a result of the Disney-DeSantis feud in which Disney pitted against Ron DeSantis and many conservative parents feared for their children's lives out of fear that Disney will  ''groom'' their children into immorality. Catalina is a symbol of not only the victims of Disney, but also that of A...

  General Mikhail Kutuzov and comrades pray before the icon of Our Lady of Smolensk before the battle of Borodino against Napoleon’s troops, September 1812                                                          Antonio Jose Rubi (Ryan) In the Soviet 1966 Sergei Bondarchuk adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace novel, in Part 3 of the film, a procession of the icon of Our Lady of Smolensk is held for the soldiers before fighting at the battle of Borodino against Napoleon. Even the main character, Peter Bezukhov, played by Bondarchuk himself joins the prayer. This was also based on a real scene, when the icon of Our Lady of Smolensk joined the soldiers before fighting Napoleon’s troops at Borodino in 1812. This is not the only religious scene in War and Peace, as in the same film, the dying father of Peter is given the Extreme unction b...

  Antonio Jose Rubi Before I would like to start the article, I would like to admit, as a Latin Catholic who attends the Latin Mass, I also admire the Byzantine Liturgy of John Chrysostom. I was exposed to the Byzantine Rite at a young age, when I read a book on St. Basil's Cathedral, and the Our Mother of Perpetual Help Icon. I could have attended an Eastern Catholic liturgy, but most are compromised with Vatican II. Look at this painting. It is a depiction of an 18 th century western European art depicting the East and the Orient. The painting shows Empress Catherine of Russia, attending the conversion of Louis of Baden, the wife of her grandson, the future Tsar Alexander I in the Byzantine Russian Orthodox Church. Alexander’s father Paul is also attending the ceremony. What makes it strange is that Western European art, rarely depicts the East, as in the case, the Byzantine Rite, instead focusing on Baroque style art. The Eastern Orthodox bishops, priests and clerics, and one O...

  Left, Medieval monks singing Gregorian chant, the proper way to praise God, right, modernist so-called ''Christian songs'' that Protestants and Novus Ordoites love to listen.                                                       Antonio Jose Rubi From the days of the early Christian church, Christians has always worshipped God through music. Even in the Old Testament, there were songs praising God, as in the case of King David and his Psalms. The current form of Catholic music is the Gregorian chant, which was formed and named in honor of Pope Saint Gregory, and also Greek and Slavonic chants for the Eastern Rites, as well as non-Latin Catholic hymns sung at mass. However, following the Protestant Reformation, Christian music slowly became slowly modern. Protestant music from the 16 th to the early 20 th century, were so very conservative and so...

  You may have heard about the anti-Disney campaign I started called ''Inkonfidensiya Kartonista'' (a parody of an 18th century Brazilian revolt) to fight back Disney, which was inspired by the Disney-DeSantis feud in which many conservative Christians fought against Disney for spreading woke ideology.  The idea for an anti-Disney campaign was conceived in late 2024, as I matured into an adult. Originally, my anti-Disney propaganda was about Disney characters brainwashing original cartoon characters with LGBT woke ideology, but after Trump's reelection in which he purged DEI and wokeness, the idea was changed into foreign imperialism reminiscent of the 1899 Philippine-American war. Further, it would have been out of context if it was Disney characters brainwashing children with woke ideology. At first, I had no idea for an original traditional Catholic character until Aaron Blaise came into the scene. I adapted his character model ''Ophelia'' into a ...

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