Traditional Mass Cebu

  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 ...

 My dear friends. Here is the third issue of Bag-ong Kusog, my daily newsletter https://docs.google.com/document/d/14M213l5HABexaZjctGGhMeuN17iSouJo/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=100922584600514145148&rtpof=true&sd=true

  Antonio Jose Rubi Why the Philippines should be a monarchy? As you know, the Philippines had been a monarchy in its history, ranging from pre-colonial monarchies, various Sultanates in Mindanao, and was ruled by the Spanish monarchy from 1565 to 1898 (excluding the First Spanish Republic period from 1873 to 1874). In 1899, the Yankee imperialists took over our country, and introduced anti-Catholic Masonic ideas to the Filipinos. That is why you see some Filipinos protest against the ‘’Padre Damaso’’ (an evil priest from Jose Rizal’s novel Touch Me Not), which is not only commonly shared by Protestants, but by liberal bigots on the internet. Especially with the Flood control projects controversy going on in our country right now, I feel there should be a regime change in my opinion. I believe that someday, Philippines should be a Catholic monarchy to end the dispute. The monarchy will be led by an Emperor, with the state religion being Roman Catholicism. I believe that thi...

  Note that I am not endorsing an Eastern Orthodox schismatic bishop, this article by John of Shanghai talks about the murder of Russia's Tsar Nicholas II, but this also can be applicable to King Louis XVI, the martyr King of France: https://orthochristian.com/154873.html          Innocently shed blood will revive Russia and France and cover it with new glory!