Si Kupido nga ba ang Dahilan ng Valentine's Day Ayon sa Bintang ng mga kaanib sa Iglesia ni Manalo 1914?

[Originally posted at Iglesia ni Cristo 33 AD blog]

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY po sa lahat ng mga kaanib sa tunay na Iglesia ni Cristo ~ ang Iglesia Katolika! 

Maasim na naman ang mga mukha ng mga kaanib sa Iglesia ni Manalo ~ ang Iglesia Ni Cristo® 1914 ~ paano ba naman, SUMASAPIT ang ARAW ni SAN VALENTINE sa tuwing Pebrero 14 na mas kilala sa Pilipinas bilang ARAW NG MGA PUSO.

Ang NAKAKALUNOS sa mga kaanib sa IGLESIA NI MANALO ~ ang Iglesia Ni Cristo® 1914 ~ GALIT sila sa PAGDIRIWANG sa MALING UNAWA tungkol rito.

Ang AKALA nila eh si KUPIDO raw ang dahilan ng Valentine's Day eh ang LINAW naman ang PAGKASABI kung ANO ang IPINAGDIRIWANG ~ SAINT VALENTINE'S DAY.

Narito ang sinasabi ng BRITANNIA ENCYCLOPEDIA:

Valentine’s Day, also called St. Valentine’s Day, holiday (February 14) when lovers express their affection with greetings and gifts. Given their similarities, it has been suggested that the holiday has origins in the Roman festival of Lupercalia, held in mid-February. The festival, which celebrated the coming of spring, included fertility rites and the pairing off of women with men by lottery. At the end of the 5th century, Pope Gelasius I forbid the celebration of Lupercalia and is sometimes attributed with replacing it with St. Valentine’s Day, but the true origin of the holiday is vague at best.

Walang banggit si kupido sa araw ni SAINT VALENTINE kundi SIYA ang dinadakila rito.

Sino si ST. VALENTINE?

Ayon sa OPISYAL na TALAMBUHAY niya sa DIOCESE ng TERNI (ITALYA), si San Balentin po ay isang OBISPO, isinilang sa Interamna at siya ay PINAKULONG, PINAHIRAPAN at PINATAY, panahon ni Emperor Claudius Gothicus noong PEBRERO 14, 269.

Dahil sa PAGSUWAY ni San Balentin sa kautusan ng emperor na HUWAG MAGKASAL lalo na sa mga KRISTIANO. Noong panahon, ISANG KRIMEN ang TUMULONG sa mga KRISTIANO at dahil si San Balentino ay NAHULING nagkakasal at tumutulong sa mga Kristiano kaya's siya ay pinarusahan at pinatay sa araw na PEBRERO 14, 269!

Bakit Naging Araw ng mga Puso ang Araw ng Kamatayan ni San Balentin (Pebrero 14)?

For obvious reasons, si San Balentin ay naging instrumento ng PAGPAPATIBAY ng PAGMAMAHALAN ng mga Kristiano noong panahong SILA ay INUUSIG. Sa kabila ng pagbabawal ng emperor ng Roma, hindi inalintana ng butihing santo ang banta sa kanyang buhay hanggang siya nga ay pinapatay noong Pebrero 14.

Emperor Claudius II had banned marriage because he thought married men were bad soldiers. Valentine felt this was unfair, so he broke the rules and arranged marriages in secret. When Claudius found out, Valentine was thrown in jail and sentenced to death. -BBC

Galit sa Maling Unawa ang Iglesia ni Manalo ~ ang Iglesia Ni Cristo® 1914

Source: https://iglesianicristoibongmandirigma.wordpress.com/2019/01/24/valentines-day-another-pagan-catholic-feast/

Ayaw na ayaw ng mga kaanib sa Iglesia ni Manalo ~ ang INC™ 1914 ~ na ipagdiwang ang kahit alinman sa mga KAPISTAHAN ng mga SANTO at SANTA sa Iglesia Katolika ~ ang tunay na Iglesia ni Cristo~  sapagkat PARA SA KANILA ito raw ay PAGAN ORIGIN.

At ang GINAMIT na SOURCE ay Wikipedia (Tagalog) upang hanapin ang tungkol sa Valentine's Day.

Ayon sa nasaliksik niya mula sa Wikipedia, ang Valentine's Day daw ay:

• Ipinasya lamang (na ipagdiwang) noong 496
• Iniutos daw na ipagdiwang ni Papa Gelasius I mula sa pagdiriwang ng "Lupercalia"
• Si kupido raw ang dahilan ng araw na ito
• Wala raw nabanggit sa Biblia tungkol sa 'Valentine's Day'

Nakapagtataka kung bakit kaya HINDI HINANAP si FELIX MANALO sa parehong Wikipedia at nang PATAS ang kanyang KAALAMAN.

Ayon din sa Wikipedia, si Ginoong FELIX Y. MANALO ay ang TAGAPAGTATAG ng Iglesia Ni Cristo®. 

Si Felix Y. Manalo ang NAGREHISTRO nito sa pamahalaan noong Hulyo 27, 1914 bilang isang KORPORASYON!

Si G. Felix Y. Manalo ay BINYAGANG KATOLIKO, BINIGYAN ng PANGALAN sa IGLESIA KATOLIKA bilang FELIX MANALO YSAGUN ngunit mas pinili niya ang apelyido ng kanyang ina na NAMATAY na HINDI UMANIB sa iglesiang kanyang tatag!

INAKUSAHAN at NILITIS si G. Felix Y. Manalo dahil sa kasong PANGGAGAHASANG isinampa ng TINIWALAG niyang si ROSITA TRILLANES. 

NAPATUNAYAN ng korte ang dinulog na sumbong ni Trillanes at NAHATULANG MAYSALA si G. Felix Y. Manalo sa nasabing kaso!

Iyan po ang sabi sa Wikipedia na siyang GINAMIT nitong kaanib ng INC™ upang patunayan na ang Valentine's Day ay sa pagano at hindi sa Kristianismo.

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May batayan ba ang mga Bintang ng mga kaanib sa Iglesia ni Manalo ~ ang Iglesia Ni Cristo®?

Wala pong basyahan ang mga bintang ng mga kaanib sa iglesiang tatag ni G. Felix Y. Manalo. At halatang HINDI naman po properly quoted ang kanilang mga sources.

• Ang araw ni Lupercalia ay para sa mga pagano. Wala pa si St. Valentine noon.
• Ipinagdiriwang si Lupercalia sa loob ng tatlong araw 13-15 Pebrero, ang Valentine's Pebrero 14 lamang.
• Madugo ang pagdiriwang ng Lupercalia, nagkakatay sila ng tupa at aso, pinapahid ng mga hubo't hubad na batang lalaki sa kanilang katawan ang dugo at ginagamit ang parte ng hayop bilang latigo sa mga batang babae upang itaguyod ang pagyayabong o fertility.
• Pagano pa ang Roma noong ipinagdiriwang ang Lupercalia
• Pinapatay ni Emperor Claudius Gothicus (214 - 270 A.D.) si San Balentin noong Pebrero 14, 269 A.D.
• Naging Kristiano lamang ang Roma noong 313 A.D. panahon ni Emperor Constantine
• Ang kapiestahan ng ST. VALENTINE'S DAY ay ipinagdiriwang lamang noong PEBRERO 14, 496 noong KRISTIANO na ang ROMA sa panahon ni PAPA GELASIUS I.
• IPINAG-UTOS ni Papa Gelasius noong ikalimang siglo ang PAGBABAWAL sa pagdiriwang ng Lupercalia, kundi ang kapistahan sa ARAW MISMO ng KAMATAYAN ni SAN BALENTIN

Sources: National Geographic, Britannica Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia Online, BBC News, DNA India News, History, 

O kita niyo na kung paano MAGSINUNGLING ang mga  kaanib ng INC™ para MANLINLANG! Di bale kung di kayo naniniwala kay San Balentino dahil HINDI rin kami NANINIWALA kay Felix Manalo at sa mga katuruan ng INC sa sumusunod na kadahilanan.

• Ipinasya lamang ni G. Felix Y. Manalo na siya ay sugo raw ng Diyos na hindi naman binanggit sa Biblia.
• Ipinasya lamang ng pamamahala ng INC™ na ipagdiwang ang Hulyo 27 taon taon na wala naman sa Biblia
• Hindi tatalikod ang ang tunay na Iglesiang tatag ni Cristo. Ang tumalikod ay tao, tulad ni Felix Manalo, tinalikdan niya ang tunay na Iglesia at nagtatag ng kanyang iglesia at pinangaral na ito ay kay Cristo.
• Si G. Felix Manalo ang may-ari, siya ang ulo, at siya ang nagtatag ng INC™ 1914
• Ang Iglesia Ni Cristo® ay isang korporasyong pagmamay-ari ni Manalo
• Walang binabanggit sa Biblia na kailangang may isang Felix Manalo upang maging ganap ang pagliligtas ng Panginoong Hesus! Hindi na kailangan si Felix sapagkat ang pagliligtas ni Cristo ay SAPAT at GANAP na!

September 8 Feast - Happy Birthday to the Mother of God ~ the Blessed Virgin Mary Most Holy

The Feast of Mary's Immaculate Conception Explained!

On December 8, 1854 Pope Pius IX defined the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception as dogma that Mary of Nazareth was conceived without original sin. By this dogma, the Catholic Church confesses: “The most Blessed Virgin Mary was, from the first moment of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege of almighty God and by virtue of the merits of Jesus Christ, Saviour of the human race, preserved immune from all stain of original sin.” (CCC #491-492, 508)

A brief overview of the history and significance of the feast of the Immaculate Conception which is celebrated during Advent on Dec. 8th throughout the whole Church. The video is not-for-profit, and is intended for religious teaching, scholarship, and research purposes only (Fair Use Doctrine: Title 17, para. 107).

Addendum: "Theotokos" literally means God bearer.

The Feast of Assumption

The Assumption of Mary into Heaven (often shortened to the Assumption) is, according to the beliefs of the Catholic Church, Eastern and Oriental Orthodoxy, as well as parts of Anglicanism, the bodily taking up of the Virgin Mary into Heaven at the end of her earthly life.

The Catholic Church teaches as dogma that the Virgin Mary "having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory". This doctrine was dogmatically defined by Pope Pius XII on 1 November 1950, in the apostolic constitution Munificentissimus Deus by exercising papal infallibility. While the Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Church believe in the Dormition of the Theotokos (“the Falling Asleep of the Mother of God”),  whether Mary had a physical death has not been dogmatically defined. In Munificentissimus Deus (item 39) Pope Pius XII pointed to the Book of Genesis (3:15) as scriptural support for the dogma in terms of Mary's victory over sin and death through her intimate association with “the new Adam” (Christ) as also reflected in 1 Corinthians 15:54: "then shall come to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory".

The New Testament contains no explicit narrative about the death or Dormition, nor of the Assumption of Mary, but several scriptural passages have been theologically interpreted to describe the ultimate fate in this and the afterworld of the Mother of Jesus (see below).

In the churches that observe it, the Assumption is a major feast day, commonly celebrated on 15 August. In many countries, the feast is also marked as a Holy Day of Obligation in the Roman Catholic Church. [Wikipedia]

British Catholics take to the streets for Corpus Christi processions

Source: Catholic Herald
posted Monday, 30 May 2016

A passerby genuflects as the Corpus Christi procession passes through London (Mazur/catholicnews.org.uk)

Bishops took part in processions in London, Oxford, Sheffield and South Wales

Churches around Britain held Blessed Sacrament processions yesterday for the transferred Feast of Corpus Christi.

In London, a procession was led by Archbishop Mennini, the apostolic nuncio. It started at Our Lady of the Assumption, Warwick Street and ended at St James’s, Spanish Place.

This is the third consecutive year that the procession has taken place. Last year, Cardinal Vincent Nichols was present.

An international procession took place from St Patrick’s, Soho, to St Giles-in-the-fields where Benediction was given. Along the way, volunteers handed out leaflets explaining to passers-by what the procession was about.

Bishop Ralph Heskett of of Hallam led the procession from St Marie’s Cathedral, Sheffield, while Bishop-Elect Paul Mason, Auxiliary Bishop of Southwark, led a procession from St John the Baptist, Westerham.

A procession also took place at Neath Abbey in South Wales, led by Bishop Tom Burns of Menevia.

In Oxford, a Pontifical High Mass for Corpus Christi, celebrated by Bishop Robert Byrne, was followed by a procession through the streets. The procession stopped at Blackfriars, where Fr Robert Ombres OP preached a sermon, and finished at the Catholic Chaplaincy.

In Ramsgate, a procession attracted more than 350 people. Fr Marcus Holden, the parish priest of Ramsgate and Minster, said the turnout was “amazing”. He tweeted: “a great witness and act of loving devotion. Deo Gratias!”

SOLEMNITY SUNDAY OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY!

A traditional diagram that explains in simple terms about the Blessed Trinity

Islam's mistaken view on Trinity say that we, Catholics invented the Holy Trinity by making Allah (God), Isa (Jesus) and Mariam (Mary /Mariam) as equal with that ONE GODHEAD (see Wikipedia).

The doctrine of the Holy Trinity makes Christianity UNIQUE among all the religions in the world. It kept Christianity INTACT and DIVIDED. And it produced various dissenting groups among the Protestants and different dissenting groups keep on multiplying but not populating in numbers.

What is the HOLY TRINITY? Where is it in the Bible? And why it is THE GOD we know and we worship?

Here is from Catholic Education Resource Center written by a Jesuit priest, Rev. Fr. John a. Hardon, S.J.

The mystery of the Holy Trinity is the most fundamental of our faith. On it everything else depends and from it everything else derives. Hence the Churchs constant concern to safeguard the revealed truth that God is One in nature and Three in Persons.

In order to do some justice to this sublime subject, we shall look only briefly at the heretical positions that at various periods of the Church's history challenged the revealed Trinitarian faith. Our principal intention is to see in sequence the development of the doctrine, with emphasis on how the Church's authority has contributed to the progress in understanding the plurality of persons in the one true God.

There is also great value in seeing some of the implications of the doctrine for our personal and social lives, since the mystery was most extensively revealed by Christ during the same discourse at the Last Supper when He taught us the "New Commandment" by which we are to love one another as He has been loving us.

Trinitarian Heresies

There is a certain logic in the adversative positions assumed by those who called into question one or another aspect of the Trinity. Not surprisingly the human mind has wrestled with what God revealed about Himself in His inner Trinitarian existence. And depending on the willingness to recognize its limitations, the intellect has been enlightened by what God says about His mysterious being.

Thus we have, on the one hand, such extensive treatises as St. Augustine's De Trinitate that show how perfectly compatible is the mystery of the Triune God with the deepest reaches of human intelligence. Indeed, the better the Trinity is understood, the more the human mind expands its horizons and the better it understands the world that the Trinity has created.

At the same time, we have the spectacle of another phenomenon. Minds that are not fully docile to the faith have, in greater or less measure, resisted the unquestioning acceptance of the Trinity. From apostolic times to the present, they have struggled with themselves and in their misguided effort to "explain" the mystery have only rationalized their own ideas of what the mystery should be.

For the sake of convenience, we can capsulize the leading anti-Trinitarian teachings of Christian history. Although given here somewhat chronologically, they are all very current because one or another, or a combination of several, may be found in contemporary writings in nominally Christian sources. There is no such thing as an antiquated doctrinal error, as correspondingly there is no such thing as an entirely new heresy. Error has its own remarkable consistency.

Monarchianism

By the end of the first century, certain Judaizing Christians lapsed into a pre-Christian notion of God. According to them God is simply unipersonal. Such were the Corinthians and the Ebionites.

Within the next hundred years these theories were systemized into what has since become known as Monarchianism, i.e., monos = one + archein = to rule, which postulates only one person in God. In practice, however, Monarchianism affected certain positions regarding the nature and person of Christ; and these were the ones that finally had to be countered by the Church's Magisterium.

HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!

CHRIST IS RISEN! ALLELUIA! ALLELUIA!

EASTER MASS AT THE VATICAN! HAPPY EASTER!

FEAST OF CORPUS CHRISTI (Body of Christ), Pope Honors Persecuted Christians

Source: Stand with the Persecuted Church

Christian Persecution is REAL. Since its birth in the First Century to the Third Millennium it's still happening.  Endless report on violence and persecution against Christians from Muslim Extremists and Muslim states in the Middle East is one of the gravest (read Aid to the Church in Need). Muslims are the main source of persecution followed by Communist countries like China, N. Korea, Cuba and Vietnam.  Secular states also persecute Christians in various ways like banning of Crosses in public areas. Removing Christian symbols in public schools, suing everyone who displays Christian symbols in the name of SECULARISM. Persecution also comes from fellow Christians who are NOT CATHOLICS such as various Protestant churches, sects, cults, and even non-Christian such as Hindus in India.  Some Born-Again protestant non-denominational groups and the notorious Iglesia Ni Cristo® founded by an apostate Felix Manalo in 1914 (now being exposed of deep seated corruption by an anonymous Minister at Iglesia Ni Cristo Silent No More!) and Ang Dating Daan® founded by Eliseo Soriano who is a fugitive in Brazil for rape.

Celebrating Corpus Christi feast, pope honors persecuted Christians

By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service

ROME (CNS) — The Eucharist is the seal of God’s covenant, uniting Christians and giving them the strength to bring God’s love to others, even when faith carries a high price, Pope Francis said.

Celebrating the feast of the Body and Blood of Christ with an evening Mass outside Rome’s Basilica of St. John Lateran June 4, Pope Francis said the church and its members will never cease being in awe of the Eucharist.

As the sun began to set, the Mass was followed by a traditional Corpus Christi procession from St. John Lateran to the Basilica of St. Mary Major, one mile away.

Pope Francis asked the faithful as they walked through the city with the Eucharist to remember “our many brothers and sisters who do not have the freedom to express their faith in the Lord Jesus.”

“Let us be united with them; let us sing with them, praise with them, adore with them,” he said. “And, in our hearts, let us venerate those brothers and sisters who were asked to sacrifice their lives out of fidelity to Christ. May their blood, united to the Lord’s, be a pledge of peace and reconciliation for the whole world.”

The Eucharist, he said, “sanctifies us, purifies us and unites us in a marvelous communion with God. In that way we learn that the Eucharist is not a prize for the good, but strength for the weak; for sinners it is pardon; it is the viaticum that helps us move forward, to walk.”

In the main part of his homily, Pope Francis quoted from one of the texts in the Liturgy of the Hours for the feast day: “Eat this sacred food, so that your bond of unity with Christ may never be broken. Drink this sacred blood, the price he paid for you, so that you may never lose heart because of your sinfulness.”

Division and losing heart are “a danger, a threat,” he said, but the gift of Christ’s presence in his body and blood give Christians the strength to resist them.

“We scatter when we are not docile to the Lord’s word, when we do not live in brotherhood, when we compete to occupy the best places — being climbers, you know — when we do not find the courage to give a witness of charity, when we are unable to offer hope,” he said.

But the Eucharist is “the bond of communion” and the constant sign of the love of Christ who died on the cross “so that we would remain united,” he said.

“Christ, present among us under the sign of bread and wine, demands that power of love overcome every fracture and, at the same time, become communion with the poor, support for the weak and fraternal concern for those who struggle to bear the weight of daily life and are in danger of losing their faith,” Pope Francis said.

Christians lose heart when they lose sight of their dignity as Christians, he said, and instead worship “the idolatries of our time: appearances, consumption and placing the ‘I’ at the center of everything.”

Being competitive, thinking that arrogance is a charming personal quality or that you are never wrong are other symptoms, the pope said. “All of this devalues us, makes us mediocre, tepid, insipid Christians, pagans.”

As Christians, he said, we will always be “poor sinners, but the blood of Christ will free us from our sins and restore our dignity.”

“Not by our own merits and with sincere humility, we can bring our brothers and sisters the love of our lord and savior,” Pope Francis said. “We will be his eyes searching out Zacchaeus and Mary Magdalene; we will be his hands that help those sick in body and spirit; we will be his heart that loves those in need of mercy, reconciliation and understanding.”

As he did last year, Pope Francis celebrated the Mass and then rode in a car to St. Mary Major to meet the Corpus Christi procession as it arrived and to officiate at the Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.

The Eucharist had been carried on a flatbed truck with two deacons kneeling alongside it. Thousands of Catholics — members of confraternities, dozens of cardinals and bishops, plus hundreds of sisters and priests — accompanied the truck, carrying candles as darkness fell.

The truck bore the Vatican license plate “SCV 1,” the special plate usually reserved for the pope.

Ano kaya ang Pilipinas kung ang Iglesia Ni Cristo® ang naging pangunahing relihiyon sa bansa?

Alergic po ang mga kampon ni Manalo sa mga pagdiriwang na ginagawa ng mga Katoliko sa bansa.

Pero sa ganang akin, hindi po natin sila matutulungan sa problemang 'yan sa pagkat bago pa man ako isinilang, o nang aking mga ninuno ay halos kalahating milenya na po ang nakakaraan nung sinakop ng bansang España ang pulong bansang ito ay pinangalanang "Las Islas Filipinas"  o "The Islands of Philip".

Sino ba si Philip? Siya po ay isang Hari ng España noong panahong 'yon. 

Siya po ay isang Katoliko!

At ang mga nanakop ay Katoliko! Kaya Katoliko po ang NAGDALA ng MAGANDANG BALITA sa bansang ito tungkol kay CRISTO!

Katoliko po ang unang nagbahagi ng tungkol sa pangalang JESUS at CRISTO

Katoliko rin po ang unang nagdala ng Biblia rito sa bansa.

At Katoliko po ang NAGPAGANDA sa bansang ito! 

Kaya po ang mga sa tinagal-tagal na ng Iglesia Katolika sa bansang ito, ang kanyang mga NILULUMOT na SIMBAHAN ay mga YAMAN ng BAYAN.

Itinuturing po silang mga UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

Pero ano nga pala ang mangyayari kung sakaling ang Iglesia Ni Cristo® or INC™ ang pangunahing relihiyon sa bansang ito?

CATHOLIC	IGLESIA NI CRISTO®
January 1, BAGONG TAON ayon sa Gregorian Calendar ng Katoliko	Marahil ay kokopya na lamang sila sapagkat walang kalendaryong sarili ang kanilang sugo Walang babati ng "Happy New Year" pero may babati ng "Maligayang Kaarawan" January 2, KAARAWAN ni ERAÑO MANALO
February 14, ST. VALENTINE'S DAY	Walang Pagdiriwang! Malungkot ang araw ng mga mag-iibigan
MAHAL NA ARAW, pagdiriwang ng Pagpapakasakit, Pagkamatay at Muling Pagkabuhay ni Hesus	Walang Holy week break Walang pagdiriwang maliban sa DEATH ANNIVERSARY ni FELIX MANALO sa buwan ng April 12
May 1, LABOR DAY	Walang LABOR DAY, bawal ang Labor Union sa INC™ May 10, KAARAWAN ni FELIX MANALO. Isang malaking pagdiriwang sa Central at mga INC Locale
June 12, INDEPENDENCE DAY	June 12 INDEPENDENCE DAY July 27, INC™ FOUNDING ANNIVERSARY, ang PINAKA-PASKO ng mga INC™ Milyon ang ginagastos ng INC™ para dito Walang pasok ang mga lahat ng INC™
August 15, Feast of the Assumption	August 31, DEATH Anniversary of Eraño G. Manalo
September 8, Birthday of Mary	Wala
October, month of the Holy Rosary	October 31, BIRTHDAY ni EDUARDO V. MANALO
November 1 ALL SAINTS DAY November 2, ALL SOULS DAY	Walang Break! Tuloy ang Trabaho! Walang pag-aaalala sa mga namatay na mahal sa buhay!
December 25, CHRISTMAS DAY	SANTA CENA (Huling Hapunan) Walang Christmas break Walang Christmas bonus Walang Christmas gifts Walang Christmas parties Walang Christmas trees Walang Christmas songs Walang Christmas spirit Maririnig natin ay ang INC™ Doxology

O di ba, NAPAKA-BORING ng Pilipinas?

Kung sa buong taon ay wala nang IPINAGDIRIWANG kundi ang KAPANGANAKAN at KAMATAYAN ng mga MANALO at nang kanilang KORPORASYONG tinawag nilang "IGLESIA NI CRISTO" naku, sigurado ko mangingibang bansa kayo para lamang maranasan ang mga masasayang pagdiriwang ng mga Katoliko sa buong mundo.

Kaya MAGPASALAMAT po tayo sapagkat sinakop tayo ng mga KATOLIKO.

Kundi, MANALONG-MANALO ang simoy ng hangin.

At ang PILIPINAS ay hindi ipapangalan kay HARING FILIP kundi ipapangalan sa REPUBLIKA DE VICTORIA!

O mas kilala sa Tagalog na "REPUBLIKA NG MANALO"  o "REPUBLIC OF MANALO"!

MERRY CHRISTMAS PO SA LAHAT ng FOLLOWERS ng IN DEFENSE OF THE CHURCH!

HE is RISEN! HALLELUJAH!

Happy Easter everyone!

The Lord is Risen! Halleluiah!

Source: St. Thakla.org

HAPPY EASTER!

DOHA QATAR: The UNIVERSALITY of the CHURCH witnessed at theFeast of Our Lady of the Rosary Parish

HAPPY EASTER!

This is the Day the LORD has made, let us REJOICE and be glad! (Psalm 118:24)

Christmas (Pasko) according to an Iglesia ni Cristo member

Photo Source: Manila Balita

In PRINCIPLE, Iglesia ni Cristo SHOULD NOT be celebrating Christmas or Pasko in Tagalog according to their teachings. But in PRACTICE they do. They enjoyed very much receiving Christmas bonuses, they eagerly accept Christmas gifts, they excitedly exchange Christmas cards, enthusiastically attend Christmas parties, their children do caroling with Catholic children, and they DEFINITELY look forward for another enjoying CHRISTMAS BREAKS with much EAGERNESS.

But this particular comment from Plaridel plainly made me laugh so hard that I almost fell down from where I was seated. Though I find it amazingly unusual thing to display such enormous stupidity, yet it's exceedingly funny. Mr. Plaridel's shameless display of "lack of common sense" is very appalling. He said @ this POST:

The term Pasko does not translate specifically to Christmas. the term pasko is from the Hebrew word "pascha" which means "Passover" which is a derivative for "pasko". So the INC does have "Pasko" but not christmas, pasko means Passover. We do celebrate "pasko" as passover.

Wow, a "Johny-came-lately" 1914 Iglesia ni Cristo sabotaging a TERM which was used by Catholics for centuries now and was celebrated for centuries now?

Mr. Plaridel, PASKO Is a Catholic celebration so we ought to know it by heart. Have you thought of that? Oh, I don't think  you have.

Christmas and the Iglesia ni Cristo

You might be asking, Do Iglesia ni Cristo members celebrate Christmas? Well, base on my experience, they say they don't but they demand Christmas bonuses from their companies, they visit friends and join Christmas parties, they greet one another Merry Christmas and they even enjoy a Christmas holiday break. And more appalling is what you see below (from Manila Balita):

Photos Taken from Facebook "IGLESIA NI MANALO CHRISTMAS CONTRADICTION"

Here's what we got from their Official Magaine PASUGO about Christmas!

ANG PALAGAY NG IGLESIA NI CRISTO SA PASKO taken from Ang Katotohanan Tungkol sa INK-1914 ni Julian Pinzon 1-PASUGO Disyembre 1956, p. 34: (sinulat ni Benjamin T. Villalba) “It strikes people as odd that members of the Church of Christ (Iglesia ni Cristo) do not celebrate Christmas. (ang Iglesia ni Cristo ay tuwirang hindi nagdiriwang ng Pasko ng kapanganakan ni Cristo).” 2-PASUGO Disyembre 1957, p. 28: (sinulat ni Emeliano I. Agustin) (Patula) “Ang diwa ng Pasko ay kapayapaan; Nang mundong naglunoy sa lusak ng Buhay; Mabuting balita sa kinalulugdan; Pagsilang ni Jesus sa abang sabsaban." Napakagulong talaga ang mga Ministrong ito na inaralan ng Anghel Felix Manalo. Isang taon lamang ang pagitan, ay binago na naman ang kanyang paninindigan tungkol sa Pasko. Kahabag-habag ang anghel nilang ipinaglalaban ng pukpukan. KABUUAN NG PAKSA: •Ayon sa Magasing PASUGO, si Ginoong F. Manalo ay nangaral na hindi siya nagtatangi ng mga tao at hindi sinasarili ang kaligtasan. Ang kanyang turong aral na ito, ay siya rin ang nagpapawalang saysay, sapagkat pinatunayan din ng PASUGO na sinasarili niya ang kaligtasan. •Ipinapangaral ni G. Felix Manalo na ipinagdiriwang ang Paskong kapanganakan ni Cristo, at ipinangaral din na hindi ipinagdiriwang, sapagkat aral daw ng mga Pagano ang pagdiriwang ng Pasko. (Sa gayon ay salu-salungatan ang aral na itinuro). •Ipinangaral din na hindi masamang ipagdiwang ang kapanganakan ninumang tao huwag lamang iuukol sa pagsamba sa Dios. Ngunit ang kanyang kaarawan ay iniuukol sa pagsamba sa Dios at pati ang kaarawan ng kapanganakan ni Erdy Manalo.

At Christmas, Pope urges end to Mideast Christians' pain

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By AFP

VATICAN CITY - Pope Benedict XVI urged an end Saturday to conflict in the Middle East and support for the region's Christians, saying those living in Iraq needed comfort from their pain after deadly attacks.

In his traditional Christmas Day address delivered at the Vatican, the pope also called for human rights to be respected in Afghanistan and Pakistan as well as for an end to the turmoil in African troublespots.

And there was a plea for reconciliation on the Korean peninsula along with a rebuke for the Communist rulers in Beijing over what he said were the limitations placed on Christians living on the Chinese mainland.

Fears for the safety of the Middle East's dwindling numbers of Christians were heightened in late October when Islamist militants laid siege to a church in Baghdad, leaving 44 worshippers and two priests dead.

An Al-Qaeda affiliate group has also issued death threats to Iraqi Christians in recent days, warning them against celebrating Christmas.

Crowds pack Bethlehem to hear message of peace

BETHLEHEM, Palestinian Territories (AFP) – The Middle East's senior Catholic cleric called for peace and reconciliation in a traditional Christmas Eve midnight mass before thousands in the birthplace of Jesus Christ.

"During this Christmas season, may the sound of the bells of our churches drown the noise of weapons in our wounded Middle East," Latin Patriarch Fuad Twal told an audience that included Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas.

Pilgrims from around the world gathered in St. Catherine's Church on Bethlehem's Manger Square to hear the traditional address in the city where Christians believe Jesus Christ was born.

As peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians remain stalled, Twal offered a vision of a better, more peaceful future.

Happy Feast Day (Immaculate Conception) to all Catholics!

Gn 3:9-15, 20; Lk 1:26-38) When Mary received a shocking invitation to mother the Messiah, she wisely inquired how a virgin could bear a child. In faith, she accepted the assurance that nothing is impossible with God. Conceived without sin, Mary, like the Son of God himself, always said yes to God.

— from Catholic Update

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Iraq: Dozens dead following Muslim standoff at Catholic church

Just a week ago, the Catholic Church held its Middle East Synod at the Vatican. Among the greatest threat for Christians are "Muslim Extremists" who want all Christians to be out of the Middle East.

We need peaceful Muslims to CONDEMN this BARBARIC acts done in the name of Islam by the few. We condemn this attrocities but we stand with those suffering Christians in the Middle East that their own blood become seed for Evangelization just as our saint-martyrs did.

Today, as we Catholics are celebrating the ALL SAINTS DAY, let us remember them, those who have sacrificed their lives for the sake of Christ and ask them to pray for us who are still journeying to salvation.

And those who died who still need the grace of God, may all the departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen!

Youth freed after the siege was brought to an end by security forces (Photo Source: SkyNews

Energy Publisher - A siege by Iraqi security forces at one of Baghdad's largest Catholic churches ended on the night of October 31, leaving at least 37 people dead and twelve injured.