Bishops to Consecrate the Nation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary

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Feast of the Annunciation (the Incarnation)

Members of the official hierarchy are set to consecrate our Nation to the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary on 8th June: cbcpnews.

May God be pleased, through this most urgent measure, to spare our people from the imminent chastisement of world-wide conflagration (cf., "Our Lady, Vatican II Disorientation, and the Annihilation of Many Nations" and grant us the miracles he granted the Portuguese Nation after its solemn consecration to the Immaculate Heart in 1931 and again in 1938 (cf., "When Mary Comes... III").

Notes on the Holy Gospel (Lk. 1.28-36) for today's Feast: click here.

Related link: "Forgotten Triumph of the Immaculate Heart" (The CBCP on the then RH Bill)

"Panginoon ko at Diyos ko!"

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Panginoon ko at Diyos ko! (Jn. 20.28)

Sa "Araw ng Pagkabuhay ng Panginoong Hesus", ang una sa sanglinggo (Jn. 20.19), maririnig natin sa Banal na Ebanghelio para sa araw na ito: Sumagot si Tomas at sinabi sa Kanya: "Panginoon ko at Diyos ko!" (Jn. 20.28). Ito ang naibulalas ni Sto. Tomas na Apostol sa pagpapahayag ng kanyang pananampalataya sa ating Panginoon at Tagapagligtas na muling nabuhay na hindi lamang nagpakita sa kanya kundi nag-anyaya pa na kanyang ipasok ang sariling mga daliri sa butas na nilikha ng pagpunit ng laman sa tagiliran ni Hesus noong Siya ay mamatay sa Krus. Samakatuwid, ang pananampalatayang Katoliko - na si Hesus ay tunay na Diyos AT tunay na tao - ay siyang pananampalataya ng mga Apostol: tahasang pinahahayag ngayon ni Sto. Tomas.

Muling pinasisinungalingan na maliwanag nang Banal na Kasulatan sa pagkakataong ito ang aral ng sektang itinatag ni Felix Manalo (ang INC, "Iglesia Ni Cristo") at ng sekta ng mga "Saksi ni Jehova" - pareho, katulad ni Luther, na nagsasabing "Biblia lamang" ang kanilang pinaniniwalaan at sinusunod -  na nagtuturo ng testimonya ng Sinagoga ni Satanas (Apoc. 2.9; 3.9) - na si Hesus ay isang tao [lamang] (Jn. 10.33: Mt. 26.63-65; Jn. 19.7).

"Absolvo te...": the Institution of the Grace of Penance as a Sacrament

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Low Sunday ("Dominica in albis")

On the same day of Our Lord's Resurrection, the first of the week, and the doors were shut, where the disciples were gathered together, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them...: Receive ye the Holy Ghost. Whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them; and whose sins you shall retain, they are retained (Jn. 20.19,22-23). Of Old, the priest of the Lord could only pray for the pardon of the sins of the people (cf. Num. 14.20; 15.25,28). Now, the priest* of the Lord is given the power to retain or forgive the sins of the penitent in the Name of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and by the application of His Most Precious Blood!**
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* That the Apostles were made priests: We have an altar (St. Paul to the Hebrews, 13.10) on which they offer the Living Bread (Jn. 6.51) - the unbloody Sacrifice of the Lord and Savior as priest according to the Order of Melchisedech (Heb. 6.20).

** For all things... are cleansed with Blood: and without shedding of Blood [now, on the traditional Christian high altar, in a mystical manner] there is no remission (Heb. 9.22).
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See also: On the Sacrament of Penance - "Absolvo te... (II)" by Ignis Dei

Sunday: the Day of Resurrection: "the Lord's Day"

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The Lord's Day (Apoc. 1.10).

... Of the same day, the first of the week... (Jn. 20.19, from the Holy Gospel for this Sunday or Low Sunday - Dominica in albis).The Jews keep the last and seventh day of the week, the Sabbath day, holy (Ex. 20.10). The Sabbath was a joyous festival for them because on that day also, the Hebrew people were released from slavery in Egypt. But it was only a figure (1 Cor. 10.6) of that most joyous day when the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ emerged as the greatest Victor from the sealed and guarded sepulchre with a large company of His subjects, under the Old dispensation, justified by their life of faith and hope in Him as the promised Lord Redeemer of Israel (Is. 49.7), but were kept "in durance" (in limbo). Hence, the Apostles appointed the glorious day of the Orient from on high (Lk. 1.78) - the Day of Him Who Is the Orient - "Sun"-day - the first day of the week (Acts 20.7), as that real holy day of Christian rest when Christ's disciples were assembled... in prayers (Acts 2.42) [on bended knees, cf., Phil. 2.10] before the altar (Heb. 13.10) of the New Covenant in the communication of the breaking of [the Living Bread (Jn. 6.51; cf., v.34) - prefigured of Old to be the most holy (Lev. 24.9) unbloody sacrifice of Christ as the eternal high priest according to the Order of Melchisedech (Heb. 6.20)] (Acts 2.42). [A commentary by Ignis Dei, "Dies Domini"]