Monday, October 31, 2016
Kauna-unahang Misa Matapos ang Dalawang Taon ay Ginanap Muli sa Bayan ng Diyos na Inusig sa Iraq ng mga Teroristant Muslim (ISIS)!
Published October 31, 2016 8:06am
By THIBAULD MALTERRE AND SAFA MAJEED, Agence France-Presse via GMA Network
QARAQOSH, Iraq - A handful of faithful gathered in a burnt out church Sunday for the first mass to be celebrated in two years in Qaraqosh, which was once Iraq's main Christian town.
By THIBAULD MALTERRE AND SAFA MAJEED, Agence France-Presse via GMA Network
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| In spite of church being burnt out, Mosul Archbishop Putrus Moshe defiantly leads the Sunday Mass in the Grand Immaculate church in Baghdeda for the first time in two years after this church was liberated from ISIS last week. Photo Source: This is Christian Iraq |
Iraqi forces retook Qaraqosh from the Islamic State group days earlier, as part of a massive offensive to wrest back the country's second city Mosul.
"After two years and three months in exile, I just celebrated the Eucharist in the cathedral of the Immaculate Conception the Islamic State wanted to destroy," Yohanna Petros Mouche, the Syriac Catholic Archbishop of Mosul, said.
"But in my heart it was always there," Mouche, who officiated with four priests, told AFP.
IS jihadists took over swathes of Iraq in June 2014, also taking Mosul where the prelate was based.
He moved to Qaraqosh, a town with a mostly Christian population of around 50,000 that was controlled by Kurdish forces and lies east of Mosul in the Nineveh plain.
But a second jihadist sweep towards Kurdish-controlled areas two months later forced around 120,000 Iraqi Christians and members of other minorities to leave their towns and villages.
"We had no other choice but to convert or become slaves. We fled to preserve our faith. Now we're going to need international protection," Father Majeed Hazem said.
Donning a resplendent chasuble and stole, Mouche led mass on an improvised altar in front of a modest congregation mostly made up of members of the Nineveh Plain Protection Units (NPU), a local Christian militia.
‘Damaged but still standing’
"I can't describe what I'm feeling. This is my land, my church," said Samer Shabaoun, a militiaman who was involved in operations to retake Qaraqosh.
"They used everything against us: they shot at us, they sent car bombs, suicide attackers. Despite all this, we're here."
Shortly before Sunday's mass, the soldiers now guarding Qaraqosh were surprised to find two elderly women in a house, one of them bedridden.
"We stayed the whole of the occupation by the Islamic State, from the first day. Sometimes they would bring us food," one of them said.
The bell tower of the church was damaged, statues decapitated and missals strewn across the nave floor, which is still covered in soot from the fire the jihadists lit when they retreated.
But some of the crosses have already been replaced and a new icon was laid on the main altar, where the armed militiamen took turns to light candles.
"This church is such a powerful symbol that if we hadn't found it like this, damaged but still standing, I'm not sure residents would have wanted to come back," Mouche said.
Christmas in Mosul?
"But the fact that it's still here gives us hope," the blue-eyed prelate, who wears thin-rimmed glasses and sports a neatly trimmed white goatee, said as he surveyed the damage in Qaraqosh after mass.
It could be months before former residents return to a town that needs to be cleared of explosive devices left behind by IS and whose infrastructure suffered badly.
The seminary library was completely burnt down and the ashes were still warm.
"This is barely a few days old—the jihadists torched it when soldiers started entering the town," Mouche said.
In the course of his visit to Qaraqosh, the archbishop recited ritual phrases to "purify" various buildings, holding a cross in one hand and swinging a thurible of incense with the other.
Jihadists appear to have used the cloister-like back yard of the cathedral for target practice.
The ground was littered with casings, the pillars riddled with bullet impacts and IS instructors even left behind a board detailing the workings of a Kalashnikov assault rifle.
The Iraqi offensive on Mosul launched two weeks ago has yet to reach the city borders, and commanders have warned it could last months but Mouche was optimistic: "I hope to celebrate a Christmas mass in Mosul cathedral." —Agence France-Presse
Muling Tumunog ang Kampana ng Iglesia ni Cristo sa Iraq!
MABUHAY ANG KRISTIANISMO! MABUHAY ANG KATOLISISMO!
Tayo, mga tunay na kaanib ng tunay na Iglesia-- mga anak ng Muling-Pagkabuhay!
Walang sinuman ang makakahadlang sa mga Katoliko na ipagdiwang ang kanilang pananampalataya sa Diyos. Tayo ang mga anak ng Muling Pagkabuhay (Easter Children) kaya't tayo ay laging may tuwa sa ating pananampalataya.
Muling Nanumbalik ang Pananampalataya ng mga Kaanib ng Iglesia ni Cristo sa Iraq!
MABUHAY ANG TUNAY NA KAANIB NG TUNAY NA IGLESIA NI CRISTO -- ANG IGLESIA KATOLIKA!
The ‘people of the cross’ are taking back Iraq
Source: Catholic News Agency
On 10.26.16, by Mary Rezac+
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| Mass at a refugee camp in Baghdad. Thousands of Iraqi Christians have been killed or forced to flee their homes after the rise of the Islamic State. Credit: Amigos de Irak via Facebook. |
The cross of Jesus is being lifted once more over many parts of Iraq, where for years Islamic State terrorists left a path of death and destruction.
As a military campaign to rid the Mosul area of the Islamic state rages on, videos are surfacing of “the people of the cross” reclaiming their homes by raising makeshift wooden crosses over the churches and towns they were once forced to flee out of fear for their lives.
The “people of the cross” was the term for Christians used by Islamic terrorists when they beheaded 21 Egyptian Christians in February 2015.
According to many reports, the Islamic State has a special hate for the symbol of the cross, which many say points to the religious motivations of their actions. According to a journalist for Ankawa news agency, within two weeks of seizing Mosul, the Islamic State terrorists threw down all the crosses from domes of churches in the city. They also raided the houses of Christian living in Mosul in order to destroy all the crosses and icons.
The breaking of the cross is symbolic of what many Muslims believe will happen at the end times. Muhammad prophesied that when Isa (the Muslim Jesus) returns, he will “fight the people for the cause of Islam. He will break the cross, kill the swine and abolish jizya” and establish the rule of Allah throughout the world.
But after years of broken crosses throughout Christian towns near Mosul, Iraq, the symbol of Jesus’ triumph over death is returning.
Yesterday, “This is Christian Iraq” Facebook page posted a video of two priests and members of the Iraq military elevating a cross made of two wooden poles and copper wiring on top of Al-Tahira Church in Qaraqosh, Iraq’s largest Christian town.
Al-Tahira Church (The Church of the Immaculate Conception) is a Chaldean Catholic Church dating back to the 7th century. In 2014, some sources reported that ISIS terrorists destroyed a Virgin Mary statue outside this Church. Since then, most of the other icons and sacramentals inside the church have been destroyed, the interior of the Church burned, the windows smashed.
But now, there is hope again that the 50,000 some Christians who were forced to leave Qaraqosh may return.
“I’m very happy now that we are able to return to our church,” Father Amar, one of the priests who erected the new cross, told The Daily Beast.
But hope mingles with sorrow at the ruin of so many churches and Christian symbols.
“Its very hard for us to see our town like this. Everything is damaged. Do you see that the bell of the church is missing? They destroyed it. Why? I don’t know,” he said.
A second video, from France 24, shows the liberation of Bartella, a Christian village close to Mosul. In an emotional and symbolic gesture of their return, they too made a makeshift cross of wooden beams and raised it on top of their church.
On the church’s walls below, Islamic State graffiti read: “Our God is higher than the cross.”
A captain with the Iraqi army told International Business Times that the fight to take back Bartella was more difficult than some of the other fights to free nearby towns, perhaps because of the town’s religious significance.
A few days ago, church bells rang out in the town for the first time in two years since the Islamic State takeover. [Read: Church bells ring for first time in 2 years after Iraqi forces liberate Christian town of Bartella en route to Mosul http://abcnews.ws/2eloz3Tl]
Christian persecution has been happening in Iraq since the spread of Islamic terror and the U.S. invasion in 2003, and picked up in intensity with the rise of the Islamic State in 2014. Hundreds of thousands of Christians have been killed or forced to flee their homes, and the population of Christians – which was about 1.5 million in 2003 – is about a third of what it used to be, with approximately 500,000 Christians remaining.
And while the battle for Mosul has been liberating Christian towns, it has not been without cost.
The United Nations warned that ISIS is using civilians as human shields in the fight for Mosul, estimating that the militants have so far taken roughly 550 families from smaller towns close to Mosul in an effort to prevent them from leaving the area.
According to CNN, some 285 men and boys have already been used by ISIS as human shields in recent days, and their bodies dumped in a mass grave.
In a statement earlier this week, Carl Anderson, Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus, stressed that liberating Mosul and the Nineveh plain are not enough. In addition, aid must be offered to ensure the survival of groups that ISIS had been trying to exterminate.
The Knights of Columbus have been heavily involved in supporting persecuted Christians in the Middle East. Earlier this year the Catholic fraternal group successfully advocated for the State Department to recognize the genocide of religious minorities at the hands of ISIS.
In 2014, the Knights established the Christian Refugee Relief Fund, which has raised $10.5 million to provide food, clothing, shelter, education, and medical care to persecuted Christians in the Middle East. They have also encouraged prayer for those facing persecution.
“Celebrations over the ongoing liberation of the historically Christian towns of the Nineveh, should not obscure the fact those minority groups who lived there for generations are now displaced and in danger of disappearing,” Anderson said in his statement.
Donations can be made to help the victims of Christian genocide in the Middle East at: http://www.kofc.org/en/charities/christian-relief/
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
Human rights violations? Manalo siblings' lawyers seek court's help
The camp of Lottie Manalo-Hemedez and Angel Manalo, estranged siblings of Iglesia executive minister Eduardo Manalo, has filed an urgent motion to allow them to enter the controversial 36 Tandang Sora compound
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| RAIN OR SHINE. Lawyer Rene Saguisag (in black jacket) waits outside the contested 36 Tandang Sora compound to talk to Angel Manalo and Lottie Manalo-Hemedez, estranged siblings of INC leader Eduardo Manalo. Rappler sourced photo |
Published 1:14 PM, October 13, 2016
Updated 1:14 PM, October 13, 2016
The tension surrounding the controversial 36 Tandang Sora property seems to be far from over.
On Wednesday, October 12, the camp of Lottie Manalo-Hemedez and Angel Manalo, estranged siblings of Iglesia ni Cristo (INC) executive minister Eduardo Manalo, filed an urgent motion at the Quezon City Regional Trial Court (QC RTC) Branch 88 to let lawyers enter the contested compound.
According to the motion penned by human rights lawyer Rene Saguisag, who replaced Trixie Cruz-Angeles as counsel, they had tried to get access to the compound to talk to the Manalo siblings on September 12, 19, and 23. However, they were either met with silence or blocked by INC security.
“The first time we went a month ago, we stood outside the gate in the wind and rain for hours and left frustrated,” Saguisag wrote. “We went 5 days later and found the gates still barred but without the security we dealt with the first time. There was a light at the left side which was quickly turned off. A voice we heard from the unopened side small gate and we pled for entry, in vain."
“The following Friday, absolutely nothing, and we left after 20 minutes. No one to talk with at all,” he added.
Manalo and Hemedez claimed they have been harassed as they continue to assert their right to the property: Walls were built to enclose the compound, water supply has been shut down, and electricity bills left unpaid. (READ: After P1M unpaid Meralco bill, power cut in INC Manalo house)
Together with their respective families, the Manalo siblings have remained inside the QC compound since being expelled from the INC, following corruption allegations against the leadership.
The latest incident of harassment, according to a letter received by Saguisag and which was cited in the motion, was that INC security have deprived the families of Manalo and Hemedez of food usually delivered by Manalo’s father-in-law through a window.
“Ngayong araw na ito ay hindi na pinapayagan iabot sa bintana ang pagkain,” the letter stated. “Ang ginawa pong pagpapahirap ng INC ay naglatag sila ng la mesa sa harapan ng bahay at gusto nila ay lumabas ang tao sa bahay at dun sa la mesa sa labas kunin ang pagkain.”
(Today, they stopped allowing food to be given through a window. What the INC is doing now is that they put the food on top of a table in front of the house. They want us to go outside and get the food ourselves.)
The letter added that this is a strategy by the leadership to lure them out of their houses, and not be let back in.
Hemedez and the INC camp have been fighting over the two-hectare property for months.
The INC, however, said that their stay inside 36 Tandang Sora is illegal after the Metropolitan Trial Court Branch 12, in June 2016, ruled in their favor in an ejectment case against the Manalo siblings. (READ: Court orders Manalo siblings out of 36 Tandang Sora)
But in July, QC RTC Branch 43 denied the petition for writ of execution filed by the INC since Hemedez and Manalo were able to file their appeal within the prescribed period and weren't required to pay bonds. (READ: QC Court: Manalo siblings can stay in 36 Tandang Sora)
Meanwhile, the INC Defenders Worldwide, in an open letter published on August 17, called on President Rodrigo Duterte to intervene and do something about the "human rights violations” involving the Manalo siblings. (READ: INC group asking for 'Duterte intervention' in church crisis?) – Jodesz Gavilan / Rappler.com
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Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Felix Y. Manalo: "Pagkasugo' Inihayag
Mula sa Tumbukin Natin
PLUMA NG BATA SAID:
Ang mga hula ng katuparan ng pagkasugo kay Ka. Felix Manalo?
Ilalahad ko po.
I. Place of origin
Isaiah 46:11
11 From the east I summon a bird of prey;
from a far-off land, a man to fulfill my purpose.
What I have said, that I will bring about;
what I have planned, that I will do.
CENON BIBE:
MAWALANG GALANG na po.
SINO po ba ang tinutukoy diyan? Si Felix Manalo po ba?
Hindi po.
Ang TINUTUKOY diyan ay si HARING CIRO ng PERSIA.
Ang KAUSAP din po ng DIYOS sa ISAIAS 46:11 ay mga ISRAELITA na NASAKOP at NADALA sa BABILONIA. Tingnan ninyo sa SUMUSUNOD na TALATA sa ISAIAS 46:13.
ISAIAH 46:13
I bring near my deliverance, it is not far off, and my salvation will not tarry; I will put salvation in Zion, for Israel my glory.
TINGNAN po NINYO, ZION at ISRAEL ang BIBIGYAN ng SALVATION of KALIGTASAN.
Si CIRO po ang TINAWAG ng DIYOS mula sa SILANGAN (ang PERSIA po ay nasa SILANGAN ng ISRAEL) at SIYA ang TUMUPAD sa PLANO ng DIYOS na PALAYAIN ang mga ISRAELITA sa BABILONIA.
Si FELIX MANALO po ay WALANG GINAWA para PALAYAIN ang mga ISRAELITA mula sa BABILONIA.
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PLUMA NG BATA SAID:
Isiah 43:5
5 Do not be afraid, for I am with you;
I will bring your children from the east
and gather you from the west.
CENON BIBE:
Muli po, ang KAUSAP DIYAN ng DIYOS ay ang mga ISRAELITA. SILA ang BINIBIGYAN ng PANGAKO ng KALIGTASAN at MULING PAGSASAMA-SAMA.
Noon po kasing panahon na iyan (597 BC at 597 BC) ay NASAKOP ng BABILONIA ang ISRAEL at KINUHA ang mga TAO ROON at DINALA sa BABILONIA at IBA PANG LUGAR.
NAGKAWATAK-WATAK at NAGKALAT ang mga ISRAELITA.
Kaya po ang PANGAKO ng DIYOS sa ISAIAH 43:5 ay TITIPUNIN ULI ng DIYOS ang mga ISRAELITA na NAIKALAT sa EAST at WEST.
NANGYARI po IYAN noong DUMATING ang IBONG MANDARAGIT (si CIRO) at SINAKOP ang BABILONIA (538 BC).
Pagkatapos niyon ay PINAUWI o PINABALIK ni CIRO ang mga ISRAELITA sa ISRAEL.
WALA pong KINALAMAN si FELIX MANALO riyan.
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PLUMA NG BATA SAID:
Isaiah 24:15
15 Therefore in the east give glory to the Lord;
exalt the name of the Lord, the God of Israel,
in the islands of the sea.
******ang nabasa ko po.. Far country in the east, composed of islands. Parang Pilipinas un ah.
CENON BIBE:
Una po, sa ORIHINAL na HEBREW ng ISAIAH 24:15 ay WALANG BINANGGIT na "EAST" o "SILANGAN," na sa HEBREW ay MIZRACH.
Ang BINANGGIT ay "BAURIM" o MGA APOY o LIWANAG.
So, HINDI po NECESSARILY "EAST" ang tinutukoy kundi "LUGAR na MARAMING APOY."
Pangalawa, WALA pong KINALAMAN ang PILIPINAS diyan.
Kung tatanggapin po natin na "East" ang nariyan ay HINDI PILIPINAS ang MATUTUKOY kundi JAPAN.
JAPAN po ang NASA EAST ng ISRAEL.
Ang PILIPINAS po ay nasa SOUTHEAST. Kaya po HINDI LALAPATAN ng SINASABI NINYO.
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PLUMA NG BATA SAID:
II. Time of Emergence
Isaiah 41:9
9 I took you from the ends of the earth,
from its farthest corners I called you.
I said, ‘You are my servant’;
I have chosen you and have not rejected you.
Isaiah 43:6
6 I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’
and to the south, ‘Do not hold them back.’
Bring my sons from afar
and my daughters from the ends of the earth —
Isaiah 42:10
10 Sing to the Lord a new song,
his praise from the ends of the earth,
you who go down to the sea, and all that is in it,
you islands, and all who live in them.
Matthew 24:33
33 Even so, when you see all these things, you know that it[a] is near, right at the door.
****lagi kong nababasa yang "ENDS OF THE EARTH" o Mga wakas ng lupa. Anu ba ibig sabihin noon?
CENON BIBE:
Ang "ENDS OF THE EARTH" po riyan ay tumutukoy sa mga LUPAIN na nasa DULO o KANTO ng MUNDONG ALAM ng mga ISRAELITA.
Partikular po riyan ang mga BAYBAYIN (COASTLANDS) at ISLA na nasa MEDITERRANEAN SEA at mga BANSA tulad ng BABILONIA at PERSIA.
HINDI po KASAMA ang PILIPINAS DIYAN.
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PLUMA NG BATA SAID:
Matthew 24:6-7
6 You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. 7 Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places.
****WARS. Digmaan. "Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places."
***e kailan ba lumitaw ang INC? kaalinsabay ng unang DIGMAANG PANDAIGDIG tama PO BA?
CENON BIBE:
HINDI KO po TUTUTULAN kung TINUTUKOY NINYO na INC ang SINASABING LILITAW sa PANAHON na IYAN.
Pero ANO po ba ang SINABI ng PANGINOON na LILITAW diyan? Ang TUNAY bang IGLESIA?
HINDI po.
Ang TINUTUKOY pong LILITAW sa PANAHON na TINUTUKOY ng PANGINOON sa MATTHEW 24:6-7 ay ang MGA BULAANG PROPETA at BULAANG MANGANGARAL.
MATTHEW 24:4-5, 11, 24-26
Jesus answered them, "Beware that no one leads you astray.
For many will come in my name, saying, 'I am the Messiah!' and they will lead many astray.
And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray.
For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and produce great signs and omens, to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.
Take note, I have told you beforehand.
So, if they say to you, 'Look! He is in the wilderness,' do not go out. If they say, 'Look! He is in the inner rooms,' do not believe it.
So, KUNG INC po ang SINASABI NINYONG LUMITAW sa PANAHON na IYAN ay HINDI PO AKO TUTOL.
SASANGAYON pa po AKO.
INC Wawasakin Rebulto ni Manalo
Mula kay Kapatid na Cenon Bibe ng Tumbukin Natin
MAY MATAPANG pong PANUKALA ng KAANIB ng INC ni MANALO na nagpapakilalang JANINE BUENAVENTURA.Kaugnay po ito sa REBULTO ni FELIX Y. MANALO.Sabi po ng KAANIB ng INC: (July 29, 2012 3:14 PM)GUSTO mo GUMUWA ka ng REBULTO ni ka FELIX ihahampas pa namen sa HARAP mo yon eh.... BAKA maipalo ko na sa ULO mo HEHEHE peace........ Eh ung mga SANTO mo kaya!? KAYA mo kayang BASAGIN sa HARAP ko ung mga YON? anu DEAL? SABAY NATING ihian ang mga REBULTO nyo at REBULTO ni FYM? anu DEAL? onMARAMING SALAMAT po sa PANUKALA NINYO.NASA INYO po YON kung GUSTO NINYONG WASAKIN ang REBULTO ni FELIX Y. MANALO.Pero KUNG TOTOO at SERYOSO po KAYO ay PUWEDE po bang YUNG NASA CENTRAL NG INC ang IHIAN at WASAKIN NINYO?Yun po ba ay PUWEDE NINYONG PALUIN sa ULO?GANOON po pala ang GUSTO NINYO e.KAMI po ay HINDI SISIRA ng IMAHEN ng mga SANTO dahil IGINAGALANG po NAMIN ang mga PAALALA sa MGA BAYANI ng DIYOS.Pero KUNG KAYO po ay HANDANG BASTUSIN at WASAKIN ang REBULTO ni MANALO ay HIHINTAYIN po NAMIN ang PAGBASTOS na GAGAWIN NINYO.SANA po MAI-VIDEO NINYO at MAI-POST sa YOUTUBE para MAS MAGANDA.SALAMAT po.
Monday, October 24, 2016
PURGATORIO NASA BIBLIA!
In Christian theology, and especially in Catholic theology, Purgatory (Latin: Purgatorium, via Anglo-Norman and Old French) is an intermediate state after physical death in which those destined for heaven "undergo purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven". -Wikipedia
Sin autem mortuus fuerit subito quispiam coram eo, polluetur caput consecrationis ejus: quod radet illico in eadem die purgationis suæ, et rursum septima.
Da illis partem, sicut mandatum est tibi, primitiarum et purgationis,
et de negligentia tua purga te cum paucis.
Et postquam impleti sunt dies purgationis ejus secundum legem Moysi, tulerunt illum in Jerusalem, ut sisterent eum Domino,
Cui enim non præsto sunt hæc, cæcus est, et manu tentans, oblivionem accipiens purgationis veterum suorum delictorum.
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Para maunawaan natin ang pakahulugan ng salitang PURGATORYO ayon sa pagkaunawa ng Iglesia Katolika na siyang tunay na Iglesia ni Cristo, ating sangguniin ngayon ang Catholic Encyclopedia...
Sa kabuuan, narito ang paliwanag ng opisyal na katekismo ng Iglesia ni Cristo - Catechism of the Catholic Church:
III. THE FINAL PURIFICATION, OR PURGATORY
1030 All who die in God's grace and friendship, but still imperfectly purified, are indeed assured of their eternal salvation; but after death they undergo purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven.
1031 The Church gives the name Purgatory to this final purification of the elect, which is entirely different from the punishment of the damned.606 The Church formulated her doctrine of faith on Purgatory especially at the Councils of Florence and Trent. The tradition of the Church, by reference to certain texts of Scripture, speaks of a cleansing fire:
As for certain lesser faults, we must believe that, before the Final Judgment, there is a purifying fire. He who is truth says that whoever utters blasphemy against the Holy Spirit will be pardoned neither in this age nor in the age to come. From this sentence we understand that certain offenses can be forgiven in this age, but certain others in the age to come.
1032 This teaching is also based on the practice of prayer for the dead, already mentioned in Sacred Scripture: "Therefore [Judas Maccabeus] made atonement for the dead, that they might be delivered from their sin."From the beginning the Church has honored the memory of the dead and offered prayers in suffrage for them, above all the Eucharistic sacrifice, so that, thus purified, they may attain the beatific vision of God.610 The Church also commends almsgiving, indulgences, and works of penance undertaken on behalf of the dead:
Let us help and commemorate them. If Job's sons were purified by their father's sacrifice, why would we doubt that our offerings for the dead bring them some consolation? Let us not hesitate to help those who have died and to offer our prayers for them.
Monday, October 17, 2016
Kanonisasyon sa Pitong Bagong Banal ng Santa Iglesia!
Pope Francis presides over the Holy Mass with canonisation of : Salomon Leclercq, José Sánchez Del Río, Manuel González García, Lodovico Pavoni, Alfonso Maria Fusco, José Gabriel Del Rosario Brochero, Elisabeth Catez.
Wednesday, October 5, 2016
Tuesday, October 4, 2016
Monday, October 3, 2016
Arabiana - Katoliko: Kaanib ng Tunay na Iglesia ni Cristo!
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| Isang Kristianong Katoliko mula sa Syria habang hinahalikan ang krusipiho ni Jesus at itinataas ang kanyang Biblia sa wikang Arabe. |
Sunday, October 2, 2016
NAHULI NA ANG TAONG UMATAKE SA MGA SIMBAHAN NG IGLESIA KATOLIKA SA ROMA!
Report mula sa EWTN
Heart-breaking vandalism desecrates four churches in Rome
A 39 year old Ghanaian national has been arrested for attacking four churches in Rome and vandalising many priceless sacred statutes, including some 300 years old. The perpetrator attacked sacred art in the 9th-century Basilica of Santa Prassede, near Saint Mary Major, the church of San Martino ai Monti, and the Basilicas of San Giovanni de' Fiorentini, on the Via Giulia, and San Vitale, on the Via Nazionale.
At about 19:30 on the 30th September the parish priest of San Martino ai Monti reported to the police that a man had damaged a statue of the Madonna and infant Jesus. Shortly afterwards, the parish priest of the Basilica of Santa Prassede reported to the police that a man had damaged two statues, one of Saint Anthony of Padua and the other of Saint Prassede. Then on the morning of 1st October the police received reports of attacks on the Basilicas of San Giovanni de' Fiorentini, on the Via Giulia, and San Vitale, on the Via Nazionale. At these two churches the man attacked statues, candlesticks and crucifixes, while protesting that "it was not right that we worshipped in this way."
The police arrested the perpetrator at Ripetta, in the centre of Rome, and charged him with religious hatred and insulting religious institutions. He is being held in Regina Coeli prison.
Comment
It is alarming that violent attacks such as these on churches in Rome are occurring more frequently across Europe according to reports documented on the Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe. The perpetrators of these attacks are more often than not motivated by secularism, feminism, LGBT ideology or Islam. At the present time, it is unclear what motivated the 39-year-old Ghanaian to attack four churches. However, the fact that he has been charged with religious hate crime suggests the authorities have concluded that his actions were not the result of mental illness.
LIES…CAMERA…ACTION! By Antonio Ebangelista
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In a series of unprecedented ridiculous Guinness World Records and other superficial money-induced achievements of the One-With-EVM Church, its Church Administration, Council Ministers, and District Ministers, have now all begun to drink the deadly OWEE Kool-Aid
(http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=drink%20the%20kool-aid). So one by one, they start to tell the lie that everybody has been telling…until EVERYBODY believes it to be TRUE and when I say everybody, I am ofcourse referring to the brethren who are either blindly One With EVM or just plainly, in denial. But what these people fail to grasp is the fact that the TRUTH will always be the TRUTH no matter how much you cover it up with lies.
And when S**t hits the fan… this is what it looks like.
Bravo!!!!! Bravo!!!!!
This is now what the Iglesia Ni Cristo holy gathering (Pamamahayag ng Salita ng Diyos) has been reduced to.. CULTISH THEATRICS! Sooner or later they will be no different from the faith healers and body-shaking, epileptic-seizure-ridden, body-collapsing stage shows, that we see on TV. Why? Because the OWEE Ministers have to outdo themselves every time they “stage” a milestone achievement to bedazzle the unsuspecting brethren who are still hoping that the Church Administration is still inspired by the Holy Spirit. Since this Church Administration is no longer guided by God, the only thing they can do is to “simulate” or “fabricate” the HSE (Holy Spirit Effect). Unfortunately for them, those who have been truly enlightened by the Holy Spirit during the pristine years of the church (FYM and EGM Years), know exactly the difference.
But wait, “It looks so convincing…”. Just look at him… wouldn’t you believe him and follow “suit”?
But how exactly did they stage this “miraculous transformation” of the so-called Orthodox Priest, John Ngalon Collado. According to the OWEE Ministers, it was because he was inspired by the preaching of Bro. Glicerio “Jun” Santos Jr., the dubiously notorious General Auditor of the INC. So they went on with the show, allowed this “fake” Orthodox Priest to step on “the holiest of the holy ground“, the TRIBUNA, a place designated for the holy function of delivering the divine words of God, and THEY BLATANTLY DESECRATED IT by allowing an impostor to enter and proclaim LIES for the crowd to swallow with cheer and applause. What used to be holy grounds for the church, is now a commonplace for crooks and liars. Do you even remember how we used to regard the TRIBUNA with so much respect and reverence that not just ANYONE can step foot on it? But I guess, with the One With EVM Era (OWEE), a lot of things, really do change, even the doctrines and church procedures and disregarding the sanctity and holiness of the church. And thanks to Bro. Glicerio “Jun” Santos Jr., the INC under the administration of Bro. Eduardo V. Manalo, has once again sunk to a whole new LOW, something worthy for a new Guinness World Records.
Unfortunately, as much as the brethren would like to believe in the “Jun Santos” Miracle, all false things must come to an end, in this case, A VERY HUMILIATING AND EMBARRASSING END.
This is the Official Statement of the Philippine Orthodox Church
OFFICIAL STATEMENT REGARDING MR. JOHN COLLADO
On September 25, 2016, during the Philippine sect “Iglesia Ni Cristo”’s event in Lagao Gymnasium, in General Santos City, they are boosting that infront of their 50, 000 members, a priest of the Orthodox Church in the person of JOHN NGALON COLLADO take off his priestly vestment and converted to their sect. The video, photos and statements were attached on their post on social media. To shed light on this, we would like to correct the false claim of the Iglesia ni Cristo sect as well as the crime commited by Mr. Collado by declaring the following FACTS:
1.) MR. JOHN COLLADO IS NOT (AND NEVER HAS BEEN) AN ORTHODOX PRIEST
2.) MR. JOHN COLLADO HAS NOT BEEN ORDAINED EVEN IN THE LOWEST RANK WHICH IS AN ORTHODOX READER
3.) MR. JOHN COLLADO IS A FORMER PRIEST OF THE PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENT CATHOLIC CHURCH (PICC) ALSO KNOWN AS AGLIPAYAN CHURCH WHO GO ON SCHISM FROM PICC TOGETHER WITH OTHER AGLIPAYAN PRIESTS AND CREATED THE INDEPENDENT CATHOLIC CHURCH OF MINDANAO (ICCM).
4.) MR. JOHN COLLADO TOGETHER WITH OTHER ICCM CLERGIES CONVERTED VOLUNTARILY THEMSELVES TO THE ORTHODOX CHURCH (MOSCOW PATRIARCHATE) AND WE KNOW HIM ONLY FOR 2 1/2 YEARS.
5.) HE FORFEITED HIS AGLIPAYAN PRIESTHOOD IN AUGUST 2015 AND WAS BAPTIZED AS AN ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN AND BECAME AN ORTHODOX LAYMAN.
6.) SINCE HE IS A NEW CONVERT, WHOSE EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND IS ONLY A HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE (WHICH IS ALLOWED IN AGLIPAYANISM FOR ORDINATION), AND HE NEVER ENTER INTO A PROPER SEMINARY EVEN IN HIS AGLIPAYAN TIMES, AND UPON CONSIDERATION OF THE NATURE OF HIS UNSTABLE CHARACTER, HE IS NOT EVEN AMONG OF THOSE CANDIDATES FOR ORTHODOX PRIESTHOOD.
7.) HIS STATEMENTS THAT HE NOW FORFEITS HIS ORTHODOX PRIESTHOOD ARE FRAUDULENT. HE IS MISLEADING THE PUBLIC BY LYING PUBLICLY AND HAS COMMITTED A CRIME OF MISREPRESENTATION AGAINST THE ORTHODOX CHURCH.
8.) THE VESTMENT WHICH HE IS WEARING AND TAKEN OFF AS SHOWN IN THE VIDEO IS NOT A VESTMENT OF AN ORTHODOX PRIEST BUT OF A CATHOLIC ONE AS COPIED BY THE AGLIPAYANS.
9.) THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH MISSION IN THE PHILIPPINES TO WHICH MR. COLLADO HAS BELONGED, IS ONLY MORE THAN TWO YEARS SINCE WE STARTED OUR MISSION AND WERE NOT ORDAINING YET NOT EVEN A SINGLE FILIPINO ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN TO ANY RANKS OF PRIESTHOOD AND HAVE NO PRIEST YET AS OF THIS TIME IN THE PHILIPPINES.
Having said the above facts, we reproach the leaders and members of the so called “Iglesia Ni Cristo” for spreading lies publicly WITHOUT verifying first the background of Mr. Collado. This only proves that this sect is IRRESPONSIBLE and NOT preaching the Truth as they even unable to do a background check to verify the claims of Mr. Collado, OR knowlingly facilitates the fradulent activity. We know the “Iglesia Ni Cristo” has a capacity to do verifications or background checks as they have members who work in many government agencies, yet they opt to just spread lies on their evangelism activities, a proof that their “evangelization” is accompanied with LIES.
We are calling all people of goodwill, including public media and government authorities not to be mislead by the lies propagated by Mr. Collado, and to refrain from further publicizing these lies.
To all Orthodox Christians, let us pray for Mr. Collado’s soul and for his repentance.
ROMA! Pinakaiibig ng Diyos, Sinasalaula ng mga Kalaban ng Iglesia!
Nakakalungkot at nakakabahala ang mga pahayag ni Ginoong Edoardo Fanfani sa kanyang blog na The Roman Anglican na inilathala nito lamang nakaraang Oktubre 1, 2016.
The Eternal City is under attack, our freedom and values are in danger.
Since it seems that no considerable press coverage has been given to the recent attacks occurred in Rome, either in Italy or elsewhere in the world, I decided to write mine own article in the hope not to incite hatred or intolerance, but rather to make people aware.
Last night a non-Italian individual entered the 9th century Basilica of Santa Prassede, just around the corner from the Papal Basilica of Saint Mary Major, the rather robust man started to smash everything he found, especially statues and candlesticks, right before a group of parishioners who were quite scared. The two devotional statues of Saint Anthony of Padua and Saint Prassede were heavily damaged, the attacker did not have time to finish his job as he was heading towards the sanctuary and the crucifix when the police arrived. Later, according to video-recording proof he also entered the church of San Martino ai Monti, where he smashed a devotional statue of the Madonna and Child.
This morning two further attacks occurred in the Basilicas of San Giovanni de' Fiorentini, on the Via Giulia, and San Vitale, on the Via Nazionale. Here statues, candlesticks, crucifixes were smashed, the perpetrator at this time had time to admit that it was not right that we worshipped in this way.
Most artworks in San Giovanni de' Fiorentini were over 300 years old, but even if other statues and religious furniture weren't that old or precious we must realise that not only our art, culture and identity are in danger (and to us Italians they are the dearest thing we have, what makes us what we are), but our very freedom of worship, our own religion, here in Rome, here in the heart of Western Christianity.
Jesus mercy, Mary pray.
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