The story of how I became a traditionalist: Part 3

 

                                          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.

          Father Ligan on the left, Ryan the blogger on the right after his first SSPX-Resistance mass
It so happened, the month of my first mass, September, one of the bishops of the SSPX-Resistance, Bishop Giacomo Ballini was coming to Cebu. He is an Italian bishop consecrated by Bishop Richard Williamson. On September 22, 2024, I received the sacrament of confirmation from him.
                    My confirmation. I am on the right next to the altar server in green shirt
As of the writing of the post, I attended two more masses of the Resistance, both in the month of February. Despite my struggles and temptations, I am hoping that God will hear my prayers that a sedevacantist priest will come to Cebu.


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