"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"]

The Catholic Church or the Counterfeit 'Catholic Church'?

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Agence France-Presse: Pope wants 'Church' to intensify dialogue w/[Mohammedans]

AFP shows that it is just another propaganda media outfit of the Synagogue of Satan (Apoc. 2.9;3.9), being financed to peddle the pseudo-Church [the New 'Catholic' Disorder or the Novus Ordo] of the Synagogue's revolutionary dummies - who lodged inside the walls of the institutional Catholic Church their 'mock prelates and priests': those certain men... secretly entered in... ungodly men (Jude 1.4) - to be the Catholic Church (cf., "The Year That Was 1929" http://ignis-dei.blogspot.com/....). Only the deceived faithful of the pseudo-Church of the 'hijacked' Second Vatican Council would take seriously this another round of almost 50 futile years of Vatican II's mad version of Protestant-inspired ecumenical movement (cf., Pope John Paul II's confession in Ignis Dei's "Our 'Great Reversal'") being pushed by another Pope who refuses to function and speak as a good minister of Jesus Christ, NOURISHED UP IN THE WORDS OF FAITH, AND OF THE GOOD DOCTRINE... (1 Tim. 4.6). But the Holy Roman, Catholic and Apostolic Church - the "Mystical Body of Christ" (Pope Pius XII, Mystici Corporis) united to her Head BY sanctifying grace and grounded on His Truth - adheres to the words of Faith, and of the good doctrine of Jesus Christ and the CONSISTENT voice of the Chair of St. Peter: Jesus Christ is THE Way, THE Truth, and THE Life. No man cometh to the Father BUT BY [HIM - never by Mohammed]" (Jn. 14.6).

"Time and Eternity"

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The Circumcision of the Infant Jesus

 

 

"Time passes and does not return. God has assigned to each of us a definite time in which to fulfill His divine plan; we have only this time and shall have no more....," cf., Ignis Dei, "Time and Eternity"

Related post: Why does the Catholic Church baptize infants? Cf., Ignis Dei, "Circumcision and the Catholic Infant Baptism"

A blessed New Year to all!

Philippine Congress Passes RH Bill on Final Reading: "Vox Populi, Vox Dei"?

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A reader of the Philippine Daily Inquirer commented: "Vox populi, vox Dei. It is the will of God that RH Bill be passed..."

Well, the Jews clamored for the Blood of the Innocent and God gave generations of them to the slaughter. The Synagogue of Satan (Apoc. 2.9; 3.9) distorted the notion: it is the greater number that decides what is true and therefore what is good. 

"Vox populi" reflects only "Vox Dei" when the people are in accord with the mind of Christ  reflected in the CONSISTENT teachings and judgments issuing forth from the Chair of Peter, who alone has the keys to bind and loose things on earth as in heaven (Mt. 16.19). [The people] shall seek the law at his mouth: because he is the angel of the Lord of hosts (Mal. 2.7) and neither shalt thou decline to the right nor to the left hand. But he that will be proud, and refuse to obey the commandment of the priest... that man shall die (Deut. 17.11,12). The Chair of  Peter consistently anathematized contraception for it is a detestable thing before God Who, as the Sovereign Lord and Author of life, alone has the absolute dominion over the RATIONAL USE of procreative powers He willed to share not with the pure rational spirits but with man alone: [Onan] spilled his seed upon the ground [lacking a condom - the same act however points also to those who are in the habit or steeped in the vice of impurity, defying the Natural Law], LEST CHILDREN SHOULD BE BORN... And therefore the Lord slew him, because he did a detestable thing" (Gen. 38.9,10). The Eternal Word-made-Flesh amplifies the sentence of eternal perdition against those baptized who, having known the justice of God (Rom. 1.32), brazenly defy God to His Face in His will: they who do such things, are worthy of death; and not only they that do them, but THEY ALSO THAT CONSENT TO THEM that do them (Ibid.).

Such then is the unequivocal effect of the Neo-Catholicism of Vatican II (an updated/relevant 'Catholicism'): a generation of mutant Catholics who imbibed very well and understood, through the New Liturgy in the vernacular, following the Roman axiom "lex orandi,  lex credendi" (loosely, how one prays shows what one believes), something other than the Religion which has the Eternal Word for its author and finisher (Heb. 12.2) - the "pseudo-Catholicism" of the Russian Communist propaganda (cf., Ignis Dei, "The Year That Was 1929"). The Neo-Catholicism of Vatican II set rather minds and hearts at odds with the immutable mind and heart of God!

The Synagogue of Satan has finally realized, though this will only be for a short "hour" as the Lord of Victor assures His faithful, the end of its battle-plan plotted by its dummy Italian Freemasonry against the Church - a seeming Catholic dissolution for the end-times: "a 'Catholic'... laity marching under the banner of the 'Enlightenment' [the Masonic "Rights of Man" ('liberty of opinion' breeding 'liberty of conscience')].... won over to the ideas of 'Liberal Catholicism' [the Church has no right to meddle in things not of 'devotional' exercises], all the while believing themselves to be [God's faithful]" ("The Permanent Instruction of the Alta Vendita" in Ignis Dei, "A Perilous 'Catholic' Voyage").

When God Strikes

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JMJ

In a column, "Pacquiao's new religion and the national anguish over Marquez's victory," of today's Philippine Daily Inquirer, Mr. Ted Laguatan writes "[Pacquiao] will also understand that God expresses his love for us not only in giving us successes, joys and pleasures – BUT ALSO in giving us failures, pains and suffering – in order to make us humble and bring us closer to Him." Meanwhile, Francis Lucas, executive secretary of CBCP's Episcopal Commission on Social Communications and Mass Media, told Yahoo News Southeast Asia that "Our God is not a vengeful God but a God of love."

God rather shows us His tender mercy MORE SO in sending us failures, defeats, pains, sufferings, and humiliations for the Catholic Religion is the religion authored by the Crucified (cf., Heb. 12.2). However, a devastating overturn is also a demonstration of how the God of exacting justice (the other "part of the equation", so to speak, of who-the-true-God-is repudiated by the Neo-Catholicism of Vatican II, cf., "The Ultimate Delusion of Vatican II 'Catholicism'") chastises apostasy.

The Sign of the Cross and the Holy Rosary have always been powerful sacramental means of Catholic victory BUT for the vindication and glory of God and His Religion. God must have ordained that at such 'grand' moment and with such a grand icon - representing also a nation that has long since officially dumped the Catholic Religion to embrace the Masonic Secularism (cf., "The Philippines: Another Lost Catholic Nation") and yet still prides itself as 'Catholic', though nominally and actually 'Liberal Catholic' - upon whom the eyes of the apostate world are fixed, it is an evil and a bitter thing for thee, to have left the Lord thy God... For you have forgotten God, Who brought you up, and you have grieved [the Church, the New Jerusalem] that nursed you (Jer. 2.19; Bar. 4.8 - DRV).

Given the circumstances, it was not just about the Filipino Champ's own grand defeat. All that forsake Thee shall be confounded... (Jer. 17.13).