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O J, Eternal Priest,keep all y priestswithin the shelter of ySacred Heart, where nonemay harm them.

Keep unstained theiranointed hands which dailytouch y Sacred Body. Keepunsullied their lips purpledwith y Precious Blood.

Keep pure and unearthlytheir hearts sealed with thesublime marks of y gloriouspriesthood.

Let y holy love sur-round them and shield themfrom the worlds contagion.

Bless their labours withabundant fruit, and may thesouls to whom they have min-istered be here below their joyand consolation and in Heav-en their beautiful and everlast-ing crown. Amen.

O Mary, Queen of theclergy, pray for us; obtain for

us a number of holy priests.

For Sabbaths, O Our Queen proclaimd,on altars praises be exclaimd by sons of Eve inpunishment, that glory crown their banish-ment. erefore, O Queen most merciful, for-get us not, be pitiful, for if thy succour we havenot, abide in heaven we cannot. O Queen, thySon hath promised us the heavens glory copi-ous which hath been made to thee before which

we await, lo!, heretofore. ou indeed art born,O Son of God, to rule heaven and earth!

e season of grace we longed for hathcome! Let us devoutly sing strains of happiness!God became Man, and nature was bewildered!Christ the King restored the world! e sealedgate of Ezechiel is opened! Whence the lightwas born, salvation is found, rejoice!

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FOR THOU ART BORNto rule the earth, O Goodness Great by humble birth, we sinners now im-plore thy aid, O Virgin Mother of Belem. Mother of God, O Queen of earth, O chosen flower ere thybirth, through thee our sickly souls are saved, we who to sin have been enslaved. O Queen of king-dom, world to come, in power clothd thou hast become, arrayd with stars, O Morning Light, onsplendid moon thy feet alight. With ardent hearts, thy faithful pray, devotion perfect may they say,

that in great love your Names proclaim: Jesus! Mary! their lips acclaim. For Thou art born to rule theearth, O Goodness Great by humble birth, we sinners now implore thy aid, O Virgin Mother of Belem.

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AnamnesisIn this issue

SENSE OF THE SACRED

easts in & are proper to the Philippine Islands: either the rank and the dignity of thefeast or the proper prayers and texts are different from those indicated in the Missal. Feasts enclosed in(parentheses) are commemorations. Only those commemorations falling on a ferial day are given.

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dances, the Pope, having personally wit-nessed the seises in Rome, decreed thatnobody should dare touch or abolish it.

Moreover, the misa de aguinaldo, pat-terned after the earliest Midnight andDawn Masses of Christmas, for a verylong time has been celebrated at dawn,

and the Dawn Mass of Christmas is alsocalled the Mass of the Shepherds.

In or , Don Diego de Esco-bar, master of ceremonies of Seville, com-plained of an abuse committed during themisas de aguinaldo. e people would joinwith the choir, and sing with them laugh-ter-inducing carols during Mass and in-side the church. We could read from thiscomplaint a trace of thepastorela, whereinlayfolk would sing the carols oft-sung, and

epastorela is a votive dance proba-bly originally danced by shepherds onChristmas in honour of the Holy Child.It evolved into a dramatic produiondescribing the events that tranired dur-ing the journey of the shepherds from theproclamation of the angels to their arrival

in the manger. Instruments used in thepastorela are rustic, and includepanderetas,sonajas, castauelas, among others.

How the pastorela became linked toMass remains nebulous to us. However,we could guess that the pastorela first be-came associated with the Liturgy in themisas de aguinaldo. Seville, we know, pos-sesses an ancient tradition of dancing tre-bles known as the seises. When D. Jaimede Palafox y Cardona, archbishop of Se-ville, complained to Rome about the

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w NWorld with the Augustinians, the first pastorelas came to theNew World with the Franciscans, assiduous defenders of theImmaculate Conception. Whilst the Franciscans employed the pastorela toevangelise the natives and convert them to the True Faith, the Augustiniansused the misas de aguinaldo to preserve them in the True Faith.

Shepherdly joyJesson G. Allerite

Its Christmas to Christians andYuletide to heathens, and we heara lot of carols. e Church shouldbegin censoring carols. We imag-ine a new ecclesiastic office whereChristmas carols are examined

for dorinal purity to obtain a canatur or a cani

potest, much like the imprimatur or imprimi potestgiven to books. Frosty the Snowman would surelybe condemned as it glorifies sorcery, and WhiteChristmas could be placed under watch as it de-letes reference to the Incarnation. Wishful think-ing! at would only happen if the censor canticor-um is of unimpeachable charaer.

* * *Do you have godchildren? Haveyou given them their aguinaldos?Are your godparents still alive?Did you pester them for youroverdue aguinaldo? ere is a

longstanding tradition of givinggifts in Christmastide. We do not wish to abol-ish it. But we should celebrate it with dignity.Godchildren should stop seeing their godpar-ents as gift faories, and godparents shouldstop seeing their godchildren as wallet borers.Godparents, together with or in the absence orfailure of the parents, educate their g odchildrenin the Faith. Godchildren, pray for your par-

ents and godparents. Godparents, plenaryindulgence can count as gift.

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Advent has an Ember week. Didyou fast during these days? Have-nt you noticed that the Churchalways contradis the world? eworld invites us to uninhibitedparties left and right, but the

Church demands fasting and abstinence from us.Christmas Eve commands abstinence. Did youkeep away from meat on December? Or at leaston December? Weakening the flesh strength-ens the irit. When our limbs groan of hunger,we must gird our souls with prayer to prepare forthe Nativity of the Lord.

* * *Did you complete the nine misasde aguinaldo? What for? So youcould make a wish? Preposter-ous! Just as saints are not fairies,the misas de aguinaldo are not anordeal we must complete to coaxall the gears of the cosmos to fall into the rightplaces for us. We attend the misas de aguinaldoto honour the perpetual virginity of Mary, andprepare for the Incarnation of Christ. If youseek otherwise, you should attend a nine-nightseminar proored by an albularyo or a diwata.

OUR TAKE ON THINGS

Ob primam Missam prima hora diei celebra-tam, id est in media noe, per has Missas de

aguinaldo in aurora litatas patefacimus pariterplaneque praefiguramus imminentem iubilatio-nem exsultationemque solemniter riteque super-venturam in Christiadum die illius Nativitatis.

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While the Conception of the BlessedVirgin was a very ancient feast, its immac-ulacy was diuted for so many centuries.Many prelates and orders tried to sup-press the feast or, at least, remove the epi-thet of immaculacy. Only the Franciscansand Spain never wavered in the defence of

the Immaculate Conception. e feast ofthe Conception, in fa, was introduced inthe calendar of the Church by a Francis-can, Sixtus IV, through the bull Quum

praeexcelsa issued on February ,which promulgated the Office and Masscomposed by Leonardo de Nogarolis.

Holy Mother Church celebratesonly three nativities in Her Liturgy: theNativity of Christ on December; theNativity of Mary on September; andthe Nativity of John on June. Original-ly, the Church also celebrated three con-ceptions: the Conception of Christ on

March; the Conception of Mary on December; and the Conception of Johnon September. We know that we offi-cially celebrate the virginal conception ofChrist as the Annunciation of Mary, thatwe believe that the Conception of Mary isImmaculate, and that the Conception of

John is now a defun feast.

m P M O Cwas how the Fathers of the First Provincial Council of Manilacalled the Immaculate Mother of God, when on December, the solemn Consecration of said Council to the Sacred Heart and tothe Immaculate Conception was pronounced by the metropolitan of Ma-nila in the presence of the entire Council, with the clergy and the people.

Immaculate ConceptionJesson G. Allerite

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OREMUS.

Deus, qui per Immacultam

Vrginis Conceptinem dignum

Flio tuo habitculum

praeparsti : quasumus ; ut,

qui ex morte eisdem Flii tui

praevsa, eam ab omni labe

praeservsti, nos quoque mun-

dos eius intercessine ad te per-

venre concdas. Per emdem. Immaculate| continued on p. 7

CONSECRATIO INSULARUM PHILIPPINARUM

AD IMMACULATAM DEIPARAM RENOVANDA

Immaculata Virgo Maria, Mater Dei, quae sine labe originali es concepta, atque humaniCorredemptrix generis es constituta : Insulas Philippinas, cum saeclum sedecimum vixlimitem ad sanum Evangelium propagandum aperiebat, possedisti : humiliter desidera-

mus cumulum beneficiorum agnoscere, quem populo nostro indesinenter prodegisti ; hoc etmodo Ecclesiae oboedire, quae te in nostram patronam declaravit, sub Immaculatae tuaeConceptionis privilegio.

Tu quae es tota formosa exemptaque omni peccati macula, instinus familiae philippi-nae exemplumque esto : a nostro solo fruus serpentis infernalis venenatos eiice ; illudque inhortum virtutum christianarum ab errore vitioque conclusum converte : nos proponemus,sub tuum patrocinium, mutuam in domu inter onsos fidelitatem, christianam filiorumdorinam, amorem erga laborem, exercitiumque misericordiae operum erga proximum, ser-

vare : eciali modo, mulieres hic praesentes, Iesu Christi Vicario oboedientes, ad te confu-giunt, Virgo castissima ; tibique promittunt semetipsas seiungere a manu materialismo pollu-ta, quae, in sceleris irritamen illumve convertendo, usum indumentorum deturpavit.

Precamur tuam benediionem pro nobis auoritatibus ecclesiasticis civilibusque : ami-cis benefaoribusque nostris benedic hic illicque trans oceanum : nobis superiores reos con-cede, qui fideles Dei gubernaculo paternaeque eiusdem providentiae cooperatores sint, quod-propter locum, qui his Insulis liberas apud orbis nationes consistit, praesidere assequantur.

Libertatem pro nobis securam pro Ecclesia Catholica, apud fideles apudve infideles, re-ditumque filiorum prodigorum ad Patris domum caelestis, impetra : nos iritu poenitentiae,qui iracundiam Dei adversus nos placet, imple ; nationibusque pacem Christi in regno Christidona : cui semper tribuatur omnis amor et gloria. Amen.

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Popular understanding of the Im-maculate Conception usually borders onthe erroneous. Because it is celebrated inDecember and is very suiciously close toChristmas, we quickly think it meansMary conceiving Christ. e iconogra-phy, which borrows from the Virgin of

the Apocalypse, is admittedly unhelpfulin this province. But the ImmaculateConception is about the preservation ofthe Blessed Virgin from sin at the firstinstance of her natural being in the wombof Saint Anne. Nine months from De-cember, we celebrate the Nativity of theVirgin, on September.

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Our Lady of Guadalupe, on the oth-er hand, depis the Blessed Virgin in agravid state, symbolised by the ribbonaround her waist. In Spanish, when a ladyis en cinta,literally, beribboned,she is preg-nant. Our Lady of Guadalupe is pregnantof our Lord Jesus Christ. Why we cele-

brate her feast on December is proba-bly to link her to Christmas. Her feastwas originally celebrated in the last daysof February and in the first weeks ofMarch, close to the Annunciation, which,if we contemplate the mystery, we wouldrealise to be the Conception of Christ.

B. V. Maria sub titulo de GuadalupaInsularum Philippinarum Coelestis Patrona declaratur.

PIUS PP. XI .

Romani Pontifices Decessores Nostri continenti iugiter studio christifidelium cultumerga Beatissimam Matrem Redemptoris Nostri Iesu Christi magis magisque in diesexcitandum fovendumque curarunt. Magnae propterea erga Deiparam Virginem

pietatis populorum Dioecesium, quae in Insulis exstant Philippinis, imaginem non medio-crem laeto animo pereximus supplicibus in libellis, quos iam nomine cleri suorumque fide-lium Archiepiscopus Manilensem ceterique in Philippinis Insulis Episcopi, nec non Dele-gatus Apostolicus Noster communiter ad Nos miserunt. [] [P]raesentium Litterarum te-nore perpetuumque in modum Beatam Virginem Mariam sub enunciato titulo de Guadalupa

Insularum Philippinarum coelestem apud Deum Patronam constituimus et declaramus.Mandamus propterea ut huic coelesti Patronatui omnia iura et privilegia liturgica competant,quae huiusmodi Patronatus sunt propria. Haec statuimus, edicimus, decernentes praesentesLitteras firmas, validas atque efiicaces iugiter exstare ac permanere ; suosque plenos atqueintegros effeus sortiri et obtinere ; diisque Insularum dioecesibus populisque fidelibusnunc et in posterum plenissime suffragari ; sicque rite iudicandum esse ac definiendum, irri-tumque ex nunc et inane fieri, si quidquam secus, super his, a quovis, auoritate qualibet,scienter sive ignoranter attentari contigerit. Contrariis non obstantibus quibuslibet.

Datum Romae, apud Sanum Petrum, sub anulo Piscatoris, die xvi m. iulii, an.MCMXXXV, Pontificatus Nostri decimoquarto.

E Card. P, a Secretis Status.

c D, F C -cal battle we call the War of Mary or, more appropriately, the War ofthe Fools. ey would pit the Immaculate Conception against OurLady of Guadalupe, both camps claiming their Virgin as the Principal Pa-troness of the Philippines. ey have forgotten that the Immaculate Con-ception and Our Lady of Guadalupe are the same: the eotokos.

Expectation of ChildbirthJesson G. Allerite

OREMUS.

Deus, qui de betae Marae

Vrginis tero Verbum tuum,

Angelo nuntinte, carnem

suscpere volusti : praesta

supplcibus tuis ; ut, qui vere

eam Genitrcem Dei crdimus,

eius apud te intercessinibus

adiuvmur. Per emdem

Dminum nostrum.Expectation| continued on p. 11

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T L, the Holy Goel according to Saint Matthew,ends with a strange note. It started by saying thatAbraham was the father of Isaac but it ended with

Joseph, the husband of Mary. It was of her that Jesus was born.Now, why do I say it is a very strange ending? Now, if you lookat the genealogy itself [], everybody else was father of some-body except Saint Joseph, who was not called father of Jesus, butwas simply called the husband of Mary. Why is this so? Well,the Goel narrative of Saint Matthew explains why. Saint Mat-

thew says: When His Mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph,but before they lived together, she was found with child throughthe Holy Spirit. Jesus our Lord was conceived in the womb ofMary without any help from Saint Joseph. He was conceived bythe Holy Spirit in fulfilment of the prophecy: Behold, the virginshall be with child and bear a son, and they shall call his nameEmmanuel which means God is with us.

Today, the th of December, is the feast of the Expeationor the Pregnancy of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In Spain and else-where in the Spanish colonies, the day is popularly known as the

fiesta de la Nuestra Seora de la O. [] In her we find fulfilment ofIsaias prophecy []. Now, as you notice, this is absolutely adefiance of nature, which diates that the woman is a fertile soilon which the man plants his seed. [] Well, according to theHoly Goels, Saint Joseph did not plant his seed on Mary. e

I L G, that God is the Lord. But if thou dost not accept this, letthe demons in the country of the Gerasens convince thee,crying out: Let us alone. What have we to do with thee,

Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before thetime? (Lk. , ; Mt. , ). Let the demons, I say, convince theeof this. If thou rejeest the testimony of Peter, and urnest theword of the Goel; ree the word of Mark. Fear the Angel,who said that He who was born of the Virgin is the Saviour, theChrist, and the Lord. Can it be that thou dost not believe in the-

se? Restrain the impetus of thy blahemy, and confess the wordof the Angel, for in the Goel He is called Emmanuel, that is,God with us. Before conception He is called God; and while He isconceived through divine economy, and not according to nature,in the womb of the Virgin, thou deniest Him to be God?

But if thou mayest confess Him to be God in the womb ofthe Virgin, insofar as likewise it is thus had, and the very sameGod, the Word, to have been united with the flesh throughdiensation, why dost thou refuse to call the Virgin the Motherof God? If she were not the Mother of God, then she is also notVirgin after childbirth: but I say, that while He was borne in thewomb of the Mother, He remained infinite in the bosom of theFather. Insomuch as divine nature is simple and unaffeed, it isalso not finite. e nature is immutable and the substance is in-variable. But now the Virgin, through divine economy, now

The child-bearing of Mary

S. Athanasius of Alexandria

Son of God, Son of Mary

&

Rev. Fr. Michell Joe Zerrudo

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eAnamnesisexpresses its gratitude to Mr Enrique Macadangdang, Sr. and Mr Jos Marie Olloren for recording the homilies and sermons of Fr. Zerrudo.

PROUT VIDISTI OMNESPROUT VIDISTI OMNES REGES TERRAE ADORAVISSE FILIUM TUUM EMMANUELREGES TERRAE ADORAVISSE FILIUM TUUM EMMANUEL; OMNESQUE GENTES EI SERVIVISSE; OMNESQUE GENTES EI SERVIVISSE::ITA, BEATISSIMA VIRGO, MATER DEI, IMPETRA DEI UNIGENITUM, VENTRIS TUI FRUCTUM IMMACULATI, UT REVO-ITA, BEATISSIMA VIRGO, MATER DEI, IMPETRA DEI UNIGENITUM, VENTRIS TUI FRUCTUM IMMACULATI, UT REVO-

CARE HODIERNOS ADMIRALIOS CALIPHASQUE ADCARE HODIERNOS ADMIRALIOS CALIPHASQUE ADSE ADORANDUM SERVIENDUMQUE DIGNETUR.SE ADORANDUM SERVIENDUMQUE DIGNETUR.

PROUT REGES THARSISPROUT REGES THARSIS ET INSULAE TIBIET INSULAE TIBIMUNERA OBTULERUNTMUNERA OBTULERUNT; REGESQUE ARA-; REGESQUE ARA-BUM ET SABA TIBI DONA ADDUXERUNTBUM ET SABA TIBI DONA ADDUXERUNT::

ITA, DOMINE DEUS, FILI DEI, ILLIS ETITA, DOMINE DEUS, FILI DEI, ILLIS ETEIUSDEM FILIIS NUNC PRAEDICTIS REGIO-EIUSDEM FILIIS NUNC PRAEDICTIS REGIO-NIBUS CONSTITUTIS, SECTAE MAHOMETA-NIBUS CONSTITUTIS, SECTAE MAHOMETA-NAE ADDICTIS, IMPERANAE ADDICTIS, IMPERA,, ILLORUMQUE SU-ILLORUMQUE SU-

PERBIAM HAERESIMQUE PERDE.PERBIAM HAERESIMQUE PERDE.

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Opponents and supporters of the immacu-lacy of the Conception of the Blessed Virginfought a bitter war to convince each other to theother position. Sixtus IV, through the bullGrave nimis issued on September , im-posed excommunication reserved to the Popeto anyone who subscribed to both positions,and mortal sin and heresy to those who pro-fessed on one part that the Virgin was con-

giveth birth to Him Who is the very One Whois in the bosom of the Father. Just as He willed,He entered; just as He pleased, He was con-ceived in the womb of the Virgin. Just as Hewilled, He proceeded as One Who was born.What, thou curious one, dost thou ask of His

generation? Either fear Him as He is God, orrevere Him as He is the Master, or worshipHim as He is the Creator and the Maker, ordread Him as He is the Lord, or shrink fromHim as He is the Judge.

Demons, which struck swine and threw anentire herd headlong off a cliff, shall influencethee with modesty. When they recognised theLord, they said: What have we to do with thee,Son of God? art thou come hither to torment usbefore the time? (Mt. , ). ey run away

from the peril and menace of torture; and thouattraest to thyself the sentence of torture.ey recognised Him as the Lord and the Judgeof the whole world, born of Mary, Whom theyfeared both when and before they saw Him;

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Son of God | p. 6

Protomrtyr et levta,

Clarus fide, clarus vita,

Clarus et mirculis ;

Sub hac luce triumphvit,

Et trimphans insultvit

Stphanus incrdulis.

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Hic est Christi praedilctus

Cui reclnans supra pectus

Hausit sapintiam ;

Huic in Cruce commendvit

Christus Matrem ; hic servvit,

Virgo, viri nsciam.

O dlces Innocntum cies !

O pia pro Christo

lactntum certmina !

Parvrum trucidntur mllia,

Membris ex tneris

manant lactis flmina.

Gaude, Sion, et laetre,

Voce, voto iucundre,

Solmpni laettia ;

Tuus Thmas trucidtur,

Pro te, Christe, immoltur

Salutris hstia.

MARTYR TAM IN VOLUNTATE QUAM IN ACTU

MARTYR IN VOLUNTATE SED NON IN ACTU

MARTYRES NON IN VOLUNTATE SED IN ACTU

MARTYR PRO ECCLESIAE LIBERTATIBUS

RedaoresAnamnesisscriptoresque

D. RODELIOqui septem cum annos adimplet

presbyter ordinatus

Tu es sacerdos in aeternum

secundum ordinem Melchisedech. .

L. D. V. Q. M.

RedaoresAnamnesisscriptoresque

D. ROBERTO PAULOqui ter quinos cum annos adimplet

presbyter ordinatus

Tu es sacerdos in aeternum

secundum ordinem Melchisedech. .

L. D. V. Q. M.

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Immaculate| continued on p. 10

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Good day!

It has come to our knowledge that your networkhas manufaured, advertised, endorsed, distributed,

and is selling currently t-shirts for the Apostolic Visit of the HolyFather. We have seen these shirts on several occasions on air and it

saddens us that these shirts, with their printed messages, and withsome people endorsing them on air, have the tendency to communi-cate certain erroneous opinions with regards to the words andpraice of the Supreme Pontiff Francis I.

First, I would like to point out that the messages on the shirtsthat your network is selling, although without clear malice, has in-clinations on an agenda bias, and that the messages are not balancedin its interest with ree to the office of the Pope and the Magiste-rium or teaching authority with regards to morals and dorine ofthe Catholic Church.

Second, the choice of some of the endorsers, such as Vice Gan-

da, is most likely not the best choice to endorse any such items inconneion with the Apostolic Visit, eecially when he wears theWho Am I To Judge? shirt because he himself, on his own ac-count, and on several occasions as many have noticed, and takingfrom a general notion of the quote is first, a judge on your noontime show, second, at certain times, judges and even makes fun ofpeople by their appearances, as if he has no flaws of his own, andthird, is not a very good and moral example for children, whereasyour network banners him as a leader in forwarding the LGBTagenda, which is well and good if we talk of anti-violence and hatecrimes against LGBTs but is not a moral step if, we consider that

one is forwarding acceptance of unnatural and sinful as thatmany homosexuals fall prey to.

ird, taking a quotation of the Holy Father, and taking it outof context and rendering it incomplete, since the quote in wholeshould be If a person is gay and seeks the Lord and has good will,who am I to judge him?. Taking from the context of the interviewwherein this quote came from, the Holy Father is talking aboutdistinguishing the person from the vice or the sin. Such measureshave always been taught by the Church to not discriminate gaypersons but to ultimately love them as persons, but to remain firmin opposing the sin many homosexuals commit: Love the sinner,

but hate the sin. It does not say, Accept the sinner and ALSO thesin which is the wrong and default meaning people make of thequote when it is projeed as only the part Who am I to judge?Using this quote in order to promote a misinterpretation of theHoly Father as opening up the Church even to the sins of homosex-uals, has been debunked over and over by experts and even the Vat-ican. So why use this part of the quote on its own, or why use it outof context?

Fourth, it is ironic that there is a tendency to communicate thewrong message in putting a quote which was never said or ex-pressed by the Pontiff saying No religion. Being the Vicar of

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Christ and the Visible Head of the Church of Christ on earth, thisone misses the point regardless of good intention, if there are any. Itis simply because the Holy Father is never indifferent of religion.He may be for dialogue with other religions but he does not clam-our for the abolition of religion, or of indifferentism which pro-

motes that all religions are the same. No, that is not the case. Notall religions are the same Again, using these statements No race.No religion. is an erroneous combination of syntax and semanticswhich have the dangerous tendency of communicating the wrongmessage. e Holy Father comes here for our people, our race, andfor the people of the Catholic Faith in the Philippines. It is ironicthe network missed this.

Fifth, the Supreme Pontiff will come for an Apostolic Visit, forthe survivors of the Typhoon Yolanda, and not for the network oranyone to cash in on his arrival. It is odd enough that the networkwould like to sell shirts with twisted messages on them, and earn (in

the guise of a portion of proceeds being donated) but the networkoften fails to issue a public statement on the proceeds being earnedand distributed, such as when your network sold shirts after Yolan-da. us, as for our judgement, the network fails to be tranarentwith this. Please corre me on this one if I have failed to see thestatements.

We were all taught in the UP College of Mass Communica-tion to be reonsible filmmakers, journalist, and media praition-ers, and not to be entrepreneurs. As I see it you have failed many ofus who have grown up with the network, and have had our intern-ships there simply because the network has become an enterprise,

more than a network of integrity, moral values and reonsiblejournalism.

Lastly, we were all taught to ree copyright, and intelleualproperty wherein the logo of the Apostolic Visit is proteed under.Have you sought any explicit permission from the organisers of thePapal Visit regarding the use of the logo, and its use for commercialpurposes?

ese are just some of our musings, and we would just likeexpress our thoughts and our disappointment regarding the shirts,and we urge you, even beg for your consideration, that as soon aspossible, you make a measure to corre the measure which you

have taken and coordinate with the organisers immediately, or evenbetter, to pull out these shirts from the market. ese shirts aredangerous and do an incredible injustice to the Holy Father and hisApostolic Visit, and even to the people that he wants to be with, theCatholic faithful and the survivors of Yolanda.

We pray that this may be resolved as soon as possible, and thatthe name of your network may not be further tarnished.

God bless you.

Sincerely yours,M. J. M. ALMADRONES

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CHRISTUS EST NATUS !

viii. kl. ian. Dominus dixit ad me : Filius meus es tu ; hodie genui te. Quare fremuerunt gentes : et popu-li meditati sunt inania ?

1At the renewal of the Consecration of the Philippines to the Immaculate Mother of God. 2At the dis-missal on the Fourth Sunday of Advent. 3The altar on the third day of the misas de aguinaldo.4 At thekissing of the Nio Jess after Mass at midnight on Christmas.

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Whenever we open our missals nowadays,the first Mass we see is the Mass of the

First Sunday of Advent. e liturgical year, welearn, is divided into two cycles: the Christmascycle, celebrating the Mystery of the Incarnation,extending from Advent, through Christmas, untilafter Epiphany; and the Easter cycle, celebratingthe Mystery of the Redemption, extending fromLent, throughout Easter, until after Pentecost.

In the ancient reckoning of time, however,Advent is not the start of the liturgical year. Ra-ther, it was Christmas. In those bygone ages, HolyMother Church started Her liturgical year on December. e first liturgical books contained theMass of the Nativity of the Lord in the first page.Advent, in those times, ended the liturgical year,for it originally harkened to the Second Coming.

e season after Pentecost ends in darkness.e Goel eaks clearly of it: And immediatelyafter the tribulation of those days, the sun shall bedarkened, and the moon shall not give her light,and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the pow-ers of heaven shall be moved (Mt. , ). Ad-vent, therefore, begins, and is celebrated all

throughout, in darkness; hence, the close associa-tion of this season with candlelight. Why so?Evidently, it is during this period of darkness thatthe sign of the Lord will appear in heaven. Weread in the Goel: And then shall appear thesign of the Son of man in heaven, and then shall allthe tribes of the earth mourn (Ibid. ). e lightof the candles in Advent reminds us of this sign.And what for is this sign? It is to herald the Se-cond Coming of Christ. And they shall see theSon of man coming in the clouds of heaven withmuch power and majesty (Ibid.).

e Second Coming of the Lord, however,

means the end of the Church Militant and theChurch Suffering. e Church, in Her wisdom,deigned to return to the mystery of His FirstComing, in His Incarnation, and His Nativity,which began once again Her liturgical life.

To whom do we owe this shift of the start ofthe liturgical year from Christmas to Advent? Weowe this to the first hymnographers. While thefirst copyists of sacramentals started with Christ-mas, the first masters of sacred music started withAdvent. e discrepancy continued for sometime, until, eventually, all chose to start both setsof books with Advent.

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and thou who hast before thine eyes thissentence, carest about nothing and fearestnothing? Let me say these again, and letme make no end in saying these, that Imay plainly open and declare the argu-ment of the aforesaid matter to you; that

from certain knowledge we may have firmand steadfast faith, and, of course, upholdthe foundation and the true profession ofthe faith.

Let us go again to the matter, to thestraight and the untwisted way of faithwhich shall reveal. It doth not disgust meto say these, and to you it is prudent.Here God entered through the listeningof the Virgin, just as He willed; He wasborne in the womb, just as it was pleasing

to Him: He proceeded as One Who wasborn, just as He pleased for Himself. In-corporeal He entered, just as He willed;He, Who can be contained by nothing,was borne, in a vessel that can be con-tained, in the entrails of the Virgin,through diensation, just as it was pleas-ing to Him: He proceeded as God andMan, just as He willed. He was made thatwhich He was not, having invariable sub-stance just as He was. For the Word wasGod, and the Word was with God (cf. Jn., ).

For this the Apostle saith: God sentHis Son, made of a woman (Gal. , ).God sent this Son, Holy of the Virgin,begotten of immaculate nature, proceed-ing from ineffable substance, Who didnot depart from the bosom of the Father,Who was not put away from the royalthrone; but rightly, together with the Fa-

ther, He occupieth the throne; togetherHe is seated with Him; not by grace, butby divine nature, and fatherly substance.By what manner, for instance, herefromwas He separated, tell me; when HeHimself mayeth say: I am in the Father,and the Father in Me (Jn. , )? Andagain: But the Father, Who abideth inMe, He doth the works (Ibid.). We saythat He Himself was born of the Virgin

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ceived without sin and, on another, withsin. Pius V severely chastised those whoopposed this Sistine imposition in the bullSi scandala promulgated on August, and eventually forbade any publicdiutations as well as vernacular writings

and eeches concerning the Conceptionof Mary in the bull Super eculam on November .

Paul V confirmed these Sistine andPian decrees in Reges pacifici, emitted on

July . On August , with thebull Sanissimus Dominis noster, he for-bade any public affirmation that the Vir-gin was conceived without original sin.On May , with a bull under thesame incipit, he extended the prohibition

to private as. Gregory XV, through thebull Eximii atque singulares, given on

July , allowed the Dominicans toprivately dissent on the matter.

Urban VIII, in the bull Universa perorbem on September , did notmention the Conception of Mary as afeast of precept, and forbade local church-es from instituting it as thus. Spain, how-ever, had been celebrating the feast as aprecept. e Urbanian obstacle was final-ly removed on November , whenInnocent X issued the bull In his, estab-lishing the Immaculate Conception as afeast of precept in the Spanish Realm.

e breakthrough in the theologicaldiscussion of the Immaculate Conceptioncame with the bull Sollicitudo omnium ec-clesiarum, which Alexander VII issued on December , where he defined theterm conception, insofar as the mystery is

concerned. ereafter, Clement XI gavethe Office and Mass for the feast withoave, as precept, to the Jesuits on September through the bull Au-

gustissimae atque gloriosissimae, and extend-ed these to the Papal States with the bullSincera nostra on Oober , and tothe Augustinians with the bull Exigit com-missae on Oober .

Alexander VIII condemned on December , amongst many errors,

through the bull Sanissimus Dominusnoster, the proposition that the Purifica-tion of Mary is sufficient proof that shesinned, and that such sinfulness also ex-tended to Christ who was conceived inher womb. Finally, on May , In-nocent XII extended the feast and oave

to the Universal Church with the bull Inexcelsa, and on December , Clem-ent XI inscribed it as a feast of precept inthe Universal Church with the bull Com-missi Nobis.

Kingdoms began to ele the Immac-ulate Conception as their patronesses.Clement XII confirmed the decree of theSacred Congregation of Rites appointingthe Immaculate Conception patroness ofSicily on March with the bull

Nuper, sicut. Charles III sent a letter toClement XIII on August , declar-ing the desire of the Spanish people toappoint the Immaculate Conception asPrincipal and Universal Patroness of theSpanish Realm. Clement XIII acceded,and on November he issued thebull Quantum ornamenti for that very pur-pose, and on January , he extend-ed the Franciscan Office and Mass of theImmaculate Conception to all secular andregular clergy of the entire SpanishRealm, with the bull Cum primum.

It is with Quantum ornamenti that theImmaculate Conception became thePrincipal and Universal Patroness of thePhilippine Islands, a title which would bedefinitively appointed in Impositi Nobis.With Cum primum, the beautiful MassEgredimini became part of the great introi-tal of Baclayn. On March , the

Philippines, then within the SpanishRealm, obtained the privilege to insert theinvocation Mater immaculata after Materintemerata in the Litany of Loreto, withClement XIII promulgating the bull Ex-imia pietas. e First Plenary Council ofthe Philippines indeed encouraged thecontinuation of this privilege.

With Eximia pietas, Rome finallypronounced the immaculacy of the Con-

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February and March, however, aresituated close to Lent. In A.D., thebishops of Iberia transferred the Annun-ciation to the December. is trans-ferred feast remains to us as the Expea-tion of Childbirth of the Blessed Virgin

Mary. e reason invoked for the trans-fer is the impediment on the proper day ofthe feast imposed by the moveable datesof the Holy Days in Lent.

In the same manner, the feast of OurLady of Guadalupe was transferred to December. e feasts in February andMarch were discontinued. Now, OurLady of Guadalupe is closer to the feast ofthe Expeation. e feast of the Expea-tion is known under many names in the

Hianic world, among which are OurLady of Guidance, Our Lady of GoodChildbirth, and Our Lady of Hope. Butits most famous appellation, however, isOur Lady of the O. e O reminds of usthat great awe and profound longing thatthe august cathedral of Toledo expressedwhen, during veers, the whole churchshook with the intonation of the O, disor-ganised and prolonged, in the durationbetween the feast of the Expeation andthe Nativity of the Lord.

Goel was very clear []: When Josephawoke, he did as the angel of the Lord hadcommanded him and took his wife intohis home and he had no relations withher until the boy was born. []

e virginal conception of the Lord

Jesus is very, very important. Why? Be-cause it tells us that our salvation is com-pletely the initiative of God. Salvationcomes from God and not from man. eSaviour is not the son of Joseph, but theSon of God. In fa, man is not able trans-mit salvation. [] Man transmits originalsin. [] In the Catechism of the CatholicChurch, it is written: original sin is a sinwhich [is] transmitted by propagation toall humankind, that is, by transmission of

a human nature deprived of original holi-ness and justice. [] Man cannot savehimself. We cannot save ourselves. Salva-tion can come from God alone.

And this is the reason for our joy:God saves us because He loves us. Godsent His Son to be born of the Virginbecause He loves us []: God so lovedthe world that He gave His only BegottenSon. Salvation comes from God. Salva-tion is motivated by Gods love for us.You see, if God did not love us, [] Hewould have just abandoned us. And, hadhe just abandoned us, no matter howmuch we try, we cannot save ourselves.We would not have been saved had theLord not loved us.

And this is the joyful message of thechild-bearing of the Virgin Mary. eLord loves us that He sent His Son. Hedid not designate some other persons son

to die on the cross to save us. No! He sentus His own Son. He sent us His Only-Begotten Son. [] e Catechism says:By giving up His own Son for our sins,God manifests that His plan for us is oneof benevolent love, prior to any merit onour part: In this is love, not that we lovedGod but that He loved us and sent HisSon to be the expiation for our sins. Godshows His love for us in that while wewere yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Some Filipinos consider the Immac-ulate Conception and Our Lady of Gua-dalupe as depiing the same mystery.ey do not. e Immaculate Concep-tion is about the conception of the Virgin;Our Lady of Guadalupe is about the con-ception of the Lord.

How are these feasts of the BlessedVirgin ranked as patrons of the Philip-pines, we ask. On July , Pope PiusXI issued the bull Romani Pontifices, de-claring Our Lady of Guadalupe HeavenlyPatroness of the Philippine Islands (in Latin,Coelestis Patrona Insularum Philippina-rum). On September , Pope PiusXII issued the bull Impositi Nobis,declar-ing the Immaculate Conception Principaland Universal Patroness of the Philippine

Islands (in Latin, Primaria UniversalisquePatrona Insularum Philippinarum).

Should these title even invite us to pitthe Blessed Virgin against herself? No!e Immaculate Conception and OurLady of Guadalupe is the same Mother ofGod in different mysteries. We distin-guish, however, that the ImmaculateConception possesses greater liturgicalrank than Our Lady of Guadalupe, whichin no way should impede our filiation toher maternal proteion and intercession.

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Verbum quod Matrem fecit, ut Virgo maneret,Et qui vobis attribuat virginitatis opem :

Intaa eius servabit viscera ventris,Custos dignetur vester adesse lucis :

Ut qui conceptum Matris celebrastis ovando,Lux sitis in mundo, iustificante Deo.

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TRADITIONAL MATRIMONY

Catholic marriages in the Philippines

are solemnised according to the e-cial ritual taken from the - (cf. Aa & Decreta I Concilii PlenariiInsularum Philippinarum, n. ).

is ritual is obligatoryfor the Philip-pines (Rit. Roman., tit. VII, c. ., n. .; CIC,can. ).IMPRIMATURJos N. Jovellanos.

For enquiries, please contact and . Details on the ceremonies can befound here: www.deipraesidiofultus.blogspot.com/search/label/Mozarabic%20Rite.

LATIN IN MASS

The Catholic Church has adopted

Latin as Her official language be-cause She is the Universal Church. Shehas been appointed to teach all nationsand, consequently, for Her, no nationalbarriers can exist. To say the Mass in anational language, however convenient itmight be, would be unworkable in theCatholic Church simply because She isCatholic. Her oneness of faith is typifiedin Her oneness in eech.

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probably execute the steps oft-executed inthe pastorelas, in the manner of the seises.

e evidence, however, is very flimsy,scarce and circumstantial.

e misas de pastorela, as they are stillcalled in some places, soon came intoprominence to decorate the celebrations,and when the abuse in the misas de agui-naldo were suppressed, the partitures re-mained, accompanied still by the instru-ments borrowed from the originalpastore-la. e misas de pastorela or misas pastorelas,as they eventually became known tomany Hianic countries, became a fix-ture in the Liturgies celebrated during thelengthy Christmas season.

e austerity and silence of Advent isonly broken during the misas de aguinaldowhen the organ together with the tam-bourine would emit its gladsome sounds.

AnamnesisSon of God| p. 10Mary. Before conception, the Angelcalled Him Emmanuel, that is, God withus, of which the prophet Isaias oke. Wesay that He is the Child that proceededfrom the Virgin, the mighty God, thePowerful, the Prince of peace, the Father

of the world to come.Which little Child then, begottenaccording to nature, was mighty and pow-erful God? Which begotten Child didattra the star that announced the soughtafter babe; nay rather the mean inn of theLord? Which Child did call the Magifrom the Orient, that they might adoreHim? Which Child begotten with thecreation of nature did receive gifts fromthe Magi? And let us consider these gifts,

whether they had been given to Him as toa weak man; or rather as to God, King,and man. Gold is to the King, incense isto God, myrrh is to a man about to beburied.

Gold indeed is to the King: Give tothe king thy judgment, O God, and to thekings son thy justice (Ps. , ). Davidbrought forth this eech. After these,when the Angel greeted Mary: And theLord God shall give unto Him the throneof David His father: and He shall reign inthe house of Jacob for ever, and of Hiskingdom there shall be no end (Lk. , ,). To Him be glory and reign in theages of the ages.

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is musical elation used to engulf ourchurches until Epiphany, when, liturgi-cally, the Christmas season ends.

In the Philippines, the misa de agui-naldo, the pastorela, the misa pastorela orthe misa pastoril are intimately linked tothe customary festivities of Christmas.While the misa de aguinaldo strongly re-mains as the simbng gab in virtually theentire ecclesiastic circumscription of theIslands and even overseas, the misa pasto-rela only survives now in a few parishes,mostly in the provinces, and the pastorelain even a few enclaves in the archipelago.

Let us, therefore, cherish these patri-monies. In the manner of the shepherds,let us, by the misa pastorela sung in themisas de aguinaldo,express the impending

jubilation and exultation that shall sol-emnly engulf Christendom on the Nativi-ty of our Lord Jesus Christ!

, raised the rank of the feast to dou-ble of the first class.

Every December, therefore, werenew the Consecration of the Philip-pines to the Immaculate Mother of God,imploring her blessing and aid for ourcountry. When we pray the Rosary, let

us, therefore, proclaim her preservationfrom sin after the final decade: Bendito yalabado sea el Santsimo Sacramento del Al-tar, y la Inmaculada Concepcin de MaraSantsima, Madre de Dios y Seora nuestra,concebida sin mancha de pecado original des-de el primer instante de su ser natural.

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ception of Mary, but it would take almostanother century for Rome to finally de-fine it as a dogma. On December ,Blessed Pius IX, issuing the bull IneffabilisDeus, finally proclaimed the ImmaculateConception a dogma of the faith, and on

September , the same pontiff, sup-pressing all ancient Masses and Offices,promulgated the new propers of the Im-maculate Conception with the bull Quodiampridem. Leo XIII, through the decreeQuod Catholica Ecclesia of the Sacred Con-gregation of Rites, dated November

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