Traditional Mass Cebu

                                                          Fr. Demetrius Gallitzin Dedicated to Father Alexander Kryssov, the Father Gallitzin of the Philippines. Both are Russian Catholic priests who serve as missionaries Prince,  priest , and missionary, born at  The Hague, Holland , 22 December, 1770; died at Loretto,  Pennsylvania ,  U.S.A.  6 May, 1840. He was a scion of one of the oldest, wealthiest, and most illustrious  families  of  Russia . His father, Prince Demetrius Gallitzin (d. 16 March, 1803), Russian ambassador to  Holland  at the time of his son's birth, had been previously for fourteen years Russian ambassador to  France , and was an intimate acquaintance of Diderot, Voltaire, d'Alembert, and other  rationalists  of the day. Though nominally an Orthodox Russian, ...

  The mass would be held in Pinamungahan, Cebu Province from March 12 to 14 Celebrant: Fr. Alexander Kryssov March 12 to 13: 5:30 PM March 14: 10 AM

                                            I remember when I was still Novus Ordoite that in 2021, I came upon tarpaulins that used cartoon themes as a baptism theme. It reminded me of my childhood. Because my favorite show at the time, Talking Tom and Friends was reaching its series finale, I decided to watch the cartoons that were used as the baptism theme. But all of it suddenly came to a halt when Typhoon Odette struck Cebu. In October 2022, I became a traditionalist who mostly read the Tradition In Action website. In February 2023, after the success of their review of Jesus Christ Superstar which is of course the blasphemous hippie musical everybody knows, I told them to review my former favorite show, Talking Tom and Friends. The review finally came in August of 2023, which you can read here: https://traditioninaction.org/Cultural/A075_Tom.htm When the review finally...

 As you may know, Facebook started a rude policy that states old Live videos more than 30 days will be automatically deleted. For me, because of that rude policy, I am deleting my old Facebook account which I used before I became a traditionalist. Here is why I (and also the readers of this blog) should delete their Facebook account.  1. There is lot of misinformation on social media Before I became a traditionalist, I was nearly brainwashed and gullible to Protestant preachers online. Some who are brainwashed online will even cost them their lives. I was always gullible and fearful online of false preachers as well as that of so called Catholic faith defenders.  2. There is lot of negativity and hate speech online Some Gen Z use the social media a lot, and there, they encounter discrimination, cyberbullying, hate speech etc, which can lead them to depression and other mental illnesses. Many people lived without social media before Vatican II, but they were happy because ...

  “Thus I make it known to you that from the end of the 19th century and from shortly after the middle of the 20th century, in what is today the Colony and will then be the Republic of Ecuador, the passions will erupt and there will be a total corruption of customs, for Satan will reign almost completely by means of the Masonic sects. “They will focus principally on the children in order to sustain this general corruption. Woe to the children of these times! Woe to the children of these times! It will be difficult to receive the Sacrament of Baptism, and also that of Confirmation. They will receive the Sacrament of Confession only if they remain in Catholic schools for the Devil will make a great effort to destroy it through persons in positions of authority. “The same thing will happen with Holy Communion. Alas! How deeply I grieve to manifest to you the many enormous sacrileges – both public as well as secret – that will occur from profanations of the Holy Eucharist. Often during...

  The blogger, Ryan Joseph, with the original image of Our Lady of Opon, also known as the Virgen de la Regla or Our Lady of the Rule. The image was made in the 1700s. Taken during a pilgrimage to the shrine.

                                            San Antonio Chapel, Car-Car, Cebu, In late May or early June of 2023, I finally became a sedevacantist. One of the earliest places as a sedevacantist I visited was a chapel to St. Anthony of Padua in Car-Car, Cebu. Then on July 11, 2023, I visited Santo Nino for the first time as a traditionalist. I mostly wrote letters to Bishop Charles McGuire of St. Gertrude the Great of Ohio and Steven Speray of Kentucky. For a while until late 2024, I mostly stayed at home due to no sedevacantist priest in Cebu, mostly attending online mass from St. Gertrude in Ohio and archived online masses until I read Introibo's sedevacantist blog post that sedevacantists can attend masses of the SSPX-Resistance if no sedevacantist mass in your place. My first SSPX-Resistance mass was on September 8, 2024, with a priest from Bohol, Fr. June Ligan celebrating. ...

  As what I had mentioned earlier, I did not even know that the Latin Mass was the mass of our ancestors due to the history curriculum being limited unlike the stock knowledge I have today, for example in my Grade 5 textbook, it mentions about the work of the Spanish missionaries in the Philippines: ''Nagtayo sila ng mga simbahan at ng mga bisita sa maliliit na barangay at doon nagdaraos ng misa at iba pang gawain upang palaganapin ang relihiyon.'' (They (the missionaries) built churches and towns in the small barangays and there, they celebrated mass and other things to propagate their religion). It does not even mention that the missionaries celebrated the Latin Mass as opposed to this book about Bolhoon: ''During the Spanish colonial times up to the early 1960s, mass was said in Latin according to the Tridentine rite.''                                               ...

 It all started with my grandmother, Leonarda Arquiza moving to Cebu in the late 40s to early 50s, as some of her siblings moved to Cebu. There, she started her devotion to the Santo Nino de Cebu, a statuette of the Holy Child Jesus said to be given by Ferdinand Magellan to the Cebuano Natives. It was situated in the Church of San Agustin, run by Spanish Augustinian friars of the Augustinian Province of the Most Holy Name of Jesus of the Philippines.                                                      The original Santo Nino image after WW2 My grandmother attended the Traditional Latin Mass early in the morning in the San Agustin Church usually under a priest named Father Leandro Moran, OSA. He was a Spanish priest born in 1886 and served as the parish priest of Bolhoon, Cebu from 1922 to 1948 until the parish was ceded to the Archdiocese of Cebu f...

  On the left, you can see Fr. Leandro Moran, OSA assisted by sub-deacon Fr. Ambrosio Galindez, OSA giving holy communion in the tongue to a properly dressed woman wearing a veil and dress. This picture was taken in 1965 in the Santo Nino Church in Cebu, in a mass commemorating the Fourth Centennial of the Christianization of the Philippines. Father Moran happens to be my grandmother's priest in the 1950s. On the right, you can see invalidly ordained Gilbert Levosada, SJ give a piece of cookie in the hand to an immodestly dressed student wearing shorts. The picture was taken during the Novus Bogus bread-and-wine service during a ''Mass for the dead'' in the Jesuit Sacred Heart School in Cebu. Notice also that Levosada is wearing purple which is worn in Novus Ordo funerals. In the Requiem Masses, the priest always wears black. Communion in the hand is a sacrilege. It is not Catholic, and was introduced by Thomas Cranmer during the Reformation as a way of denying Chri...

                              Left, a Byzantine rite Divine Liturgy, right a Roman Rite Latin Mass The Latin Rite is the rite of the West, and reflects the Western spirit very logically. However, this type of logic as such was not so developed by the East. Instead, the Eastern Rites have an elevation that we in the West reach only once in a while. For example, in the East they have the idea that the splendor of the ceremony is the condition of its efficacy; the idea that it is part of the essence of the act to have been performed in the presence of God because in His presence everything has more plenitude; the idea that in the presence of God a declaration of war becomes more combative and a declaration of peace is more reconciliatory, etc. It is possible that some Latin Doctors have delved more deeply into the mysteries of God than the East, but the Eastern spirit has much more propensity to take this notion of ...

  Most of you know some Filipino heroes, Jose Rizal, Andres Bonifacio, Emilio Aguinaldo and Apolinario Mabini. But unfortunately, they were Masonic in nature. Rizal wrote many Anti-Catholic pamphlets but later reconciled to the Church before his execution, Bonifacio killed Catholic priests and before his execution and did not repent of his sins, Aguinaldo still kept Catholic traditions even if he was a Freemason and fought against the Spaniards. But not all fought against Spain, some even fought for Spain or their colonial power, take for example the heroes of Pernambuco who fought against the Dutch invaders in the 1600s before Brazil gained independence from Portugal. And not only were Filipino heroes brown skins, some even had white skins. These include the Angels of Bataan who were American nurses who tended to wounded Filipinos during the Second World War, and there is Father Julian Bermejo, the Anti-Muslim hero of Southern Cebu who fought against Moro invasion in what is n...

 These are Pre-Vatican II photos of Santo Nino Church, one of my favorite shrines as a Catholic. Before the infamous Vatican II council when the Latin Mass was still offered, it was still called San Agustin Church and was run by Spanish Augustinian friars, one of them being Father Leandro Moran, OSA who was my grandmother's confessor The church in 1915 The original image of Santo Nino was color black from the late 1800s until 1945 during the war when it was restored to its original color.