We understand what you mean. In fact, may we offer you our reconciliatory version as we experience them. They are:
We purposely call it that way because it is a necessary extension of diligence. For example we have Benedict XV who was belabored by the violent excesses of the Hapsburg empire. From out of the blue, he proclaimed the Virgin Mary as Queen of Peace and in doing so effected the termination of a wicked and tyrannical rule.
The acts of consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary of both Pius XII and John Paul II , though both incomplete in form, substantially brought about change in the world which would have been impossible without heavenly intervention. We posit them as truths in the modern times so that we can still prove that miracles still flourish in the Mystical Body of Christ.
This is the gift of compassion that allows us to be forgiven by our Most Loving Father “as we forgive those who sin against us.” This is that mysterious grace of penance that capacitates us to reach Jesus’ Ocean of Mercy and equips us to forgive at least seventy times seven times someone who has sinned against us. John Paul II exemplified this when he visited Ali Agca in jail who miraculously failed in killing him. This was the gracious gift that Saint Mary Magdalene, Saint Mary of Egypt and Saint Dimas, the First Flower of the Passion, received from our Lord.
May we just give you three from recent history so that you will know that despite the church’s accommodation to the people’s busy lives, we posit:
We are ligion because we are few.
Because there are many religions. They are legion.
There are two important considerations you mentioned; simplicity and being imperative. We remember the living martyr John who after taking care of the Virgin mother in Ephesus was exiled in Patmos where in his ripe old age of more than a hundred years old was still being visited by many Christians as the last living apostle and link to Jesus, and he will be carried to the waiting crowd and all he will say before blessing people gathered was “Love one another.” Simple and imperative like a commander’s mandate to soldiers. For what else can he say for he has written the gospel his letters and the revelations.
The true church thrived in Judaism through the covenant we call the ten commandments. This however, was simplified in the Christian church by Christ Himself without losing its imperative force, for he did not abrogate the Law. In your request in order to discern the true church we will not only tell you its description of being one, holy, apostolic and catholic. Here, we present you also the simple four general orders by which obedience to their execution will make you arrive at the four descriptors of the true militant church. They are the following:
By these four simple orders akin to orders given to soldiers in their simple imperative sense, we maintain oneness, all struggle to be holy, have faithful diligence to apostolic teaching and practice universal love in its spiritual purity. By these simple perimeter fencing, we keep the flock intact through their obedience outside of which are the perils of wolves. By these operant mandates you can discern a true Christian church.
By their fruits ye shall know them.
Through Magmahalan, there must be a struggle to promote Jesus’ Ocean of Mercy by which through the sacrament of penance is manifested; the forgiveness of sins in the church militant by way of confession and repentance, the communion of saints in the church triumphant which manifests a great love for the conversion of sinners and the pardon of the departed in the church suffering, remembering even the abandoned, through their intercession in accordance with the Will of the Most Loving Father. The gift of mercy and forgiveness should be evident and faithful.
Through Magbigayan, is there a struggle to promote the fortitude and miraculous service of governance and administration against communism and freemasonry and even protestant heresy. Is there a conscious effort to stem the tide of modernism by teaching and instruction, wisdom counseling, healing generosity, prophetic insight and interpretation and faithful diligence. Or are priests more content in acting as tourist guides to holy places, tolerate and even condone heretical lifestyles and perversions, apologize for what others do so that heretics are comfortable as brothers, or are martyrdoms of saints and their miracles just considered legends and folk tales. Is there a struggle for generous healing to flourish so that the poor, the sick and the captive are given hope? Are missions multiplying or dying? Or are vocations even conversions compromised in the name of ecumenism? For whom are the priesthood giving? Is the God the One being given the sacrifices or is it the prince of this word?
Through Magsanggunian, is there a struggle to listen to the princes of the church who are loyal to their Queen or have some already transformed into princesses who are loyal to their Queer? Are the gifts of teaching and instruction, and of wisdom counseling being subjected to accommodate heretical teachings and evil lifestyles condemnable even during the old testament times? Is the gift of prophetic insight and interpretation still in place to discern the workings of the devil in everyday life? Or has the church transformed into a mere marketplace of sophistry and esotericism; an agora of modernism and old religion combined. Are men now, especially priest, more dependent now on their own pleasurable intelligence than to wisdom which is a gift of God?
Through Magtapatan, is there a struggle to be true to the essential truths of the church or is there a leaning to the convenient truths of the modern world? Is the gift of faithful diligence and wisdom counseling being eroded such that the Virgin Mary’s role as Mediatrix of All Graces or as Mother of the Church being undermined? Are the priests allowing the slander of their Mother’s purity and chastity such that they can no longer have the strength to defend her as the Mother of God? Have they lost the diligence to teach about purgatory and the truth of forgiveness even in the afterlife because they are ashamed to discuss purgatory? How is it possible that the Eucharistic glory is being diminished right under the noses of the men supposed to be gifted with miraculous service administration? Why are Bishops embarrassed to talk about the consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart? Is the Russian Metropolitan or Soviet President more important than the Queen of Heaven? How can a pope dedicated to truth possibly resign unless someone is truly lying. What happened to his governance and whose “miracle” is this? Why is the holy rosary being forgot-ten as a powerful weapon against evil and a valuable source of graces even for the departed? Why is the Fatima prophecy denied its proper course and still deliberately kept a secret to the faithful?
If the struggle is present in the militant church, then there is still the presence of life, which strives also to aid those in the suffering church spiritually through the intercession of all saints, the church triumphant. Thus, by now, ironically because of the struggle you should know that the Catholic church possess these qualities.
If they do not share in the militant struggle against evil, how can they be true? If they do not provide in a struggle to properly remember the dead so that they can still hope to enter God’s kingdom, how can they be good at all ? If they do not have the communion of saints and therefore, their intercession that can benefit both the militant and suffering church, how can they be beautiful? How can they be beautiful without being triumphant? Can a house be divided against itself? In other words, how can they be barren so as not to produce saints which are fruits of a living church? God established a church which is fruitful for saints are God’s friends. And so, if a church does not produce real saints, not only members who are so-called saints, then there must be a big problem in that church and it must have been established by someone other than God.
Truly, they do not possess the qualities of a true Christian church. Rather these churches are possessed. In fact, said churches which when given the chance of redemption to be in unity with the Holy Spirit and does not take the chance and even ignore it, are repossessed. They are not just one; they are many (legion) religions which are just legionized from the old religion (of the Devil). They are not holy; they perverted the nature of man to be like a god which follows what pleases him and therefore loves evil. They are not apostolic because they do not follow apostolic succession and are mere products of successive heresies that led to apostasy. And they are not catholic as Saint Ignatius of Antioch envisioned it to be because they discriminate against the poor (why can’t they give tithes?), the sick (they must have been cursed by God), the captive (they deserve to be in jail and to die because of their crimes), the oppressed (they are not chosen people) and because they belong to a certain race (they are black because they descended from an accursed patriarch). Moreover, they discriminate because they feel that they are more just than God who condemns their practices. (They are ancient and bigoted, and an embarrassment to modern living because they are not tolerant to the practices of the LGBTQ+ community. But even now, some people in the hierarchy have lost their diligence because being universal to them means becoming tolerant to perverted lives.
Such that their struggle will be against the true church, the Woman and Her Son as they are on the side of the Dragon and its prostitute and consequently, their deliberate effort will be to forget what is good (to accept purgatory and deny the existence of hell, the efficacy of the holy rosary, the sacraments and sacramentals), to ignore what is beautiful (a majestic church of order and solemnity and plenty of graces)and to be indifferent to what is true ( the perpetual sacrifice and the Eucharist inherent in the holy mass, a loving Mother whose joy is to see that Her Son’s passion is not taken for granted ). All these make them the proper dwelling of the Prince of this World who is the enemy of God: anti-Church, anti-Mary and Anti-Christ!
Nothing much. And not so impressive either. We begin with the dugong (first syllable: dug)which is very unintimidating animal which were mistaken to be sirens of the sea. Although for us, these demons from the sea (dagat) really exist with their male counterparts, siokoy. Although they are called sirens (Spanish is sirena) we do not seriously take them as taking its name from Sirius, the star (first syllable : sir). Yet, also possibly an anthropological link would be how the aliens in West Africa walked awkwardly with their amphibious built or possible presence of tails (biology shows us that the phytons used to walk, evolved?, as the bible claims in Genesis) which is described in the Tagalog word, dagaldal (first syllable: dag) and as they claim their voices are so loud which is best described in the Tagalog word, dagundong (first syllable: dag), or when the dragon learned to fly and to snatch its victims which is best described in the Tagalog word, dagit (first syllable: dag). In the islands, the nearest link to the amphibious and reptilian creatures who walked with much effort from the water to interrelate with people are the unding and the taong-bayawak (undines which are frog-like men and lizard men, respectively, and these are accounts from the Tagalog region. Sometimes, the undines will afflict even farmers who are far away from bodies of water in Cuenca, Batangas. The Cinco Hermanos of the uprising in Bulacan which preceded the Katipunan are known to have fought the lizard men of the Bulacan caves. The tawak may just be a familiar spirit. But if shine or have flaming eyes like the ulalaga, it is easier to classify them as elemental spirits. Ayoko na sanang dagdagan pero, sige. ( I just don’t want to add some but let’s go.)
The most fantastic link in the dog connection may as well be the longest revolt in Philippine history which is the revolt of Francisco Dagohoy in Bohol. The enigma lies in the fact, that no revolutionary can lead a revolt for more than eighty years. Unless someone or some others followed through the succession of leadership. If not, the only remaining possibility is that Francisco became immortal as one of our brothers found out. Because Dagohoy (First syllable: Dag) is not a proper Boholano surname but a spiritual name of an elemental of the air. The same group of beings that used to inhabit the Hoyop-hoyopan cave in Albay. This accordingly is the reason why Dagohoy (last syllable: Hoy) could not be captured by authorities even with the help of traitor natives.
Those who are used to doing evil in Tagalog are dagis ( first syllable : dag). They are like daga (mice) that will steal your grains and gnaw at your clothes and worse, they are close assassins who will stab you with their daga (dagger).And so, maybe they also passed the islands but it does not mean that they are alien life. What we believe is that they are possibly angelic beings who have fallen from the heavens after their defeat under the loyal angels. And of course, angels even if they are fallen ones are still more intelligent than us. But to be really good to people, we doubt it. The Dugon and Nomoli only learned to worship them and remained in ignorance. And how obvious of the Dagda to have the Irish megalith be identified as one built by a fairy king. So, who is alien now?
Lastly may we offer this unique poetic viewpoint:
Dagis Kang Tunay Dagis kang talaga, nabulid na anghel. Nakapagbalatkayo ka pang diyos. Hilahod ka na ngang lumakad Dagaldal ka pa ngang kinakapos. Salitang dagundong mula dagat Sa taong dungo nagpamulagat. Sa dikta mo kay Hammurabai Para bang ang Diyos kay Moises Ikaw rin si Dagon ng mga Filisteo Nagpabulag kay Samson, na isang Huwes. Siya ring duragong ina ng mga emperyo Anak ng dragong para lang sa impiyerno. Mga higanteng bato binuo ng engkanto Inutos ng haring tuon sa mga bituin. Habol-habol ang konstelasyong aso Sa Irlandiya’y nanaog ang alien mandin? Seryoso ka ba sa bago mong tanghal Na ika’y alien mula Sirius dumatal? Naloko mo silang sobrang matalino Pati ba ako paglalalangan mo pa? Pinoy lang akong kinaawaan ng Diyos Ng kaunting dunong, alam mo ba? Ang nabulid na anghel, ikaw nga iyon Na ibulid rin kami, yaon yaong layon! -rico del sol | Truly, You’re Evil You’re truly evil, o fallen angel. Pretend to be god that’s your disguise. Painstakingly, did you walk the land Doggedly erect to appear as wise. Thundering talk heard from the sea And then with an awful sight to see. And your dictation to Hammurabai Is just like God’s unto Moses You’re Dagon of the Phillistines who Blinded Samson, one of the Judges. The same duragon who laid empires From the dragon the fuel for hell fires. The megalith oval built by the fairies Mandated by a king observing stars In pursuit of the canine lupine chase To Ireland came, aliens from stars? With your new show, are you serious: An alien who came down from Sirius? Deceived the ones who are too smart And so you plan to pull my leg, too? Just a Pinoy whose God is merciful To give me wisdom, fear of Him, too. The fallen angel, you are indeed Who’d like us to fall that’s your deed! |
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