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Happy Easter and Happy 20th birthday to the blogger

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  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, ...
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President Trump Ended Democrats’ “Transgender for Everybody” Insanity - A Filipino Catholic critique

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  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...
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In defense of the Friars

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  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...
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Prayer for the cause of Fray Julian Bermejo

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  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...
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Counter revolutionary symbols - The Sacred Heart and the Holy Mandylion

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  The Sacred Heart  In 1675, Our Lord appeared to Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque demanding that King Louis XIV consecrate the Kingdom of France to his Sacred Heart and that his heart be imprinted on the fleur-de-lis flag. However, Louis XIV and his successor, Louis XV declined, as a result of their worldliness. King Louis XVI privately consecrated France to the Sacred Heart during the French Revolution but was too late. Louis XVI would later be guillotined. During the French Revolution, peasants from the Vendee, who were loyal to the French monarchy, took up arms against the French Revolution, with a badge of the Sacred Heart of Jesus with the words, Dieu Le Roi, God is King. They were ultimately defeated, and the Bourbon monarchy would be restored after the fall of Napoleon. The last king of France was King Charles X until he was removed by pseudo-king liberal Louis Philippe. The fame of the Sacred Heart spread. In 1809, the people of Tyrol under Andreas Hofer used the Sacred H...
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Alejandro and Catalina

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  Alejandro Santos, right, drawn by the author, Antonio Jose Rubi, right, Catalina Santos (nee Gomez) drawn by Michael Francisco, based on ''Ophelia'' by Aaron Blaise. At last, I am finished with my story, Alejandro and Catalina, which will serve as an alternative for traditionalist families who grew up with Disney Princesses. Not only is the couple an alternative for Disney Princesses who are immorally woke, this is also a way to tell our historical and Catholic heritage. To be fair, here is the plot: In the late 1660s, Alejandro Santos, a Cebuano nobleman related to precolonial nobility serves as an employee in the Jesuit Colegio de San Ildefonso (closed 1769, original building destroyed in WW2, and now the University of San Carlos) and Father Ignacio Sanchez, a Spanish Jesuit priest serves as his confessor and advisor. Meanwhile in the town of Mandawi, (now Mandaue), Catalina Gomez, a noble Cebuano girl donates money for the Jesuit missions in the Ladrones Islands su...
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Alejandro and Catalina's standard

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                                                       Alejandro and Catalina's personal standard To all my dear readers: As part of my story called Alejandro and Catalina, which is a Disney princess like story set in 17th century Cebu during the Spanish era, here is the flag associated with them: A Cross of Burgundy flag (Spanish flag at the time) with the words In Hoc Signo Vinces meaning In This Sign You Shall Conquer, which appeared to Emperor Constantine. According to my story, it is Alejandro, the future husband of Catalina in my story that personally designs the flag, meaning that it will bring victory against the Moro Pirate Ali Pagtuga. Eventually, Alejandro and Catalina defeat the Moro Ali Pagtuga, Zebu is free, and Alejandro and Catalina get married. From then on, this is the symbol associated with them. According to the story, the origin...
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