Traditional Mass Cebu

 Dear Readers, Here follows a review of Snow White (1937), by Tradition In Action's Elizabeth Lozowski from a Traditional Catholic perspective. I grew up with it alongside Alice in Wonderland in 2010 when I was 4 years old. Aside from being the first Disney as well as first feature length animated film, it was the only Disney film and feature length animated film released during the pontificate of Pope Pius XI. I have a special connection with Adriana Casselotti, Snow White's voice actress. Reviews of  Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs , produced by Walt Disney, 1937, and the live action remake  Snow White , 2025 Elizabeth Anne Lozowski Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs , produced by Walt Disney in 1937, was the first full-length color animated film ever to be made. Its success led to the rise of countless cartoons, creating a new form of entertainment. Although at first the cartoons were based on physical artwork – for example, the backgrounds in  Snow White  were ...

  I want to tell you about a local Catholic hero of the Philippines, named Pedro Calungsod who was a Cebuano missionary in Guam. He was born in Ginatilan, Cebu in 1650 or 1654. In 1668, at the age of 14, he became a catechist in Guam under the Jesuit priest, Fr. Diego Luis de San Vitores, SJ.                                                           Fr. Diego de San Vitores, SJ They sailed to the Guam in the Mariana Islands, named after Queen regent Mariana of Austria, originally named Isla de los Landrones (The island of the thieves). There, Calungsod catechized the native Chamorro people and he served with Father Diego in the Traditional Latin Mass.                                             Father Diego baptizing a Chamorro ...

  On March 31st, 1521, Easter Sunday, the chaplain of the Magellan expedition, Fr. Pedro de Valderrama offered the first Mass in the Philippines. Here is a painting depicting the glorious event. However, it is inaccurate because the priest wears Tridentine vestments which were not there until the Council of Trent. 

  He was the only known Filipino Catholic priest known to have resisted the errors of Vatican II. He was born on February 2, 1924 in Sulu and entered the Dominican Order in 1939. He was also a theologian, having wrote many things on Protestantism and a critique of the New Mass. In the 1980s, he publicly celebrated the Traditional Latin Mass in the Santo Domingo Church in Quezon City. He was suspended by ''Cardinal'' Sin (the name is a coincidence) for celebrating the True Mass. When the SSPX came to the Philippines, he supported it and continued to celebrate the old Mass until he died on August 29, 1997. May he rest in peace!                                                          Father Piñon celebrating mass

                                 Left, ''Vivian'' Smotherman and right, the Coachman in Pinocchio (1940). Just look at the similarities in their grins. But he that  shall scandalize  one of these little ones that believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone should be hanged about his neck, and that he should be drowned in the depth of the sea.                                                                             Matthew 18:6 Just recently, in Colorado, a transgender LGBT activist named ''Vivian'' Smotherman and his wife are housing a gender confused autistic teenage girl against the mother's wishes. The girl suffers from ADHD, anxiety, depression and an eating disorder. She was forced to att...

                     During the liberation of Catholic Philippines, Our Lady, (right) gave a terrible blow to the Japanese sun goddess or demon, Amaterasu (left) who victimized many Catholics during the WW2 and during the persecution of Catholics in Tokugawa Japan from the 1500s to the 1600s.  ''For all the gods of the Gentiles are devils: but the Lord made the heavens.'' Psalm 95:5 On March 26, 1945, 80 years ago, American forces liberated Cebu from Japanese tyranny. They landed on Cansujong Beach, Talisay on March 26, 1945, thus liberating Cebu from the Japanese. 5 months earlier, Gen. Douglas MacArthur landed in Leyte thus beginning the liberation of the Philippines, and weeks earlier, the Battle of Manila ended which destroyed many religious icons and churches dating back to the Spanish era. William H. Arnold was in charge of liberating Cebu and a monument similar to the Leyte memorial stands on the beach where the American...

Prof. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira Texts of St. Louis Grignion de Montfort  : First text : “Those who undertake this holy slavery should have a special devotion to the great mystery of the Incarnation of the Word. Indeed, the Incarnation is the mystery proper to this practice, insomuch as it is a devotion inspired by the Holy Ghost: * First, to honor and imitate the ineffable dependence that God the Son was pleased to have on Mary, for His Father’s glory and our salvation. This dependence appears in a particular way in this mystery, where Our Lord Jesus Christ is a captive and a slave in the bosom of the Most Holy Virgin, and depends on her for all things. * Second, to thank God for the incomparable graces He has given Mary, and particularly for having chosen her to be His most worthy Mother, the choice which was made in this mystery.” ( True Devotion to Mary , Montfort Publications, 1975, p. 165). Second text : “Time does not permit me to explain here the greatness and grandeurs of t...

 As part of my Traditional Catholic pilgrimage for 2025, I am using the Novus Ordo Jubilee 2025 churches as the churches for my pilgrimage. One of them is the Immaculate Heart Church in Minglanilla and the San Francisco Church in Naga, both founded before Vatican II and by the Augustinians.                                                       Immaculate Heart of Mary Church                                                               The altar of the church                                   The original image of the Immaculate Heart of Minglanilla                   ...