Consecration of America to the Immaculate Heart of Mary

To consecrate a person, a place or a thing, is to make it sacred, to be set aside and put on service for the greater glory of God. Over the years, countries have been consecrated to God or to the Blessed Virgin. In 1984, St. Pope John Paul II, consecrated all men and women and all peoples to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. So was Portugal in 1931, Canada in 1947 and the Philippines in 1964.

Arianism and the Councils of Nicea and Constantinople

Arianism is a 4th-century heresy denying the divinity of Jesus Christ. It was taught and preached by Arius, a presbyter from Alexandria in North Africa. He proclaimed that Jesus Christ is only a creature, in an effort to protect the divinity of God, the Father.

Our Lady of Mount Banahaw?

In the 1970s, we have heard of a great project that was designed to draw a lot of tourists to the mystical site of Mount Banahaw in Dolores, Quezon. The investors knew that having a project with a grand scale would mean a lot in terms of the return of investment. So many people climb the mystical mountain for different purposes. Some would go up to get healed from some illnesses especially those which doctors couldn’t understand or have given up already. It is said that many had been cured with the help of its curative waters as healers would advise them to drink or bathe using its mystical waters. And then some would go up to obtain powers and come down magically or spiritually-protected. And still there are some who seek the truth. I was one of them.

Does the City of Biringan Really Exist?

Every now and then, the name of the city of Biringan crops up as an enchanted city located in the vicinity of two big islands, Samar and Leyte. Anyway, stories of strange places either lost or are still possibly accessible abound in Filipino folklore.

Were the Filipino Faithful Deceived in Lipa?

The saga of the Lipa apparitions continue reflecting the pulse of the Filipino Catholic faithful. The alleged apparitions took place in 1948 with a Carmel postulant by the name of Teresita Castillo became the visionary of what would be known as the Mediatrix of All Grace.

A Church Guarded by Angels

As a Catholic grows older, he starts outgrowing his belief in what he used to call each morning or evening or especially when he is distressed. As natural as he used to call his mom whenever he cried every time he was hurt, he would call upon his guardian angel as it was one of the first things he learned from Cathechism. But just as the belief in Santa Claus erode at an early age because of the materialism attached to it, the catholic individual would feel less comfortable in calling an unseen friend which he once regularly called by means of a short prayer.

Is Elizabeth Masue Masuda-Almazan a saint?

Masue Masuda was a Nihongo teacher for the young Japanese nationals growing in Mintal, Davao, Philippines before WWII. Having fallen in love with a Filipino co-teacher, she opted to leave her Buddhist Japanese family which eventually returned to Japan, Masue instead went with Vicente Almazan, her husband to his native town of San Narciso, Zambales. Here, they had quite an amicable life with the Filipino community with both the teachers settling instead as farmers. Being all foreigners in San Narciso who were married to Filipinos, she developed a strong friendship with compatriot Mary Nakashima and especially Nellie Elizabeth Stocks, an American.

The Book of Life is Without an Author?

For centuries, scientific materialism creeped in and has influenced our understanding of nature. This belief holds that everything can be explained through material processes, making the invocation of an immaterial, divine being, unnecessary. Charles Darwin captured the imagination of the past centuries by removing the designer from the equation with his theory of evolution, particularly natural selection through random mutation. Though this theory has been the corner stone of biology and has made great progress; it also aligned with the agenda of humanism, which sought to remove God from the picture, appealing to many thinkers across generations.

Is the Flat Earth Theory Truly Absurd?

As a disclaimer, I am not sharing this to change your perspective on astronomy as it was taught to us in school. This article is simply the result of my personal questioning of the Lunar Landing, which, in my personal belief, was the greatest hoax of the 20th century. I may be wrong in my suspicions, but in the process of seeking the truth, I must validate whether the information released by NASA are all valid. In my research on this matter, I have discovered even deeper findings that, at first, made me laugh. But as my research deepened, many testimonies, based on history, observation, and science, suggest that it is indeed possible the Earth is FLAT and not a GLOBE as we have been taught since childhood. Crazy, right?

The Childhood of Cyrus, the Great

Cyrus, the Great prophesied as the bird of prey coming from the east summoned by God had been the subject of ironies. At least two cult leaders from the far east, Felix Manalo of the Philippines and Sun Myung Moon of Korea used the same bible passage in claiming they are the raptors anointed and summoned by God for a great purpose. This would only prove that even in death, Cyrus still causes a stir even as when he was still alive.

Gilgamesh Epic Retold

Sumerian and Akkadian account of the hero Gilgamesh, is an epic poem of antiquity concerning the King of Uruk (not to be confused with Abraham’s Ur) culled from clay tablets from the library of Ashurbanipal (669-631 BC), the last king of the Assyrian empire. He is the son of an anunnaki (nephelim) and a human who is characterized as a mighty giant. As king, he had this lusty vice of taking the bride for himself on the day of the wedding and none of his subjects could stop him.

Man of the Spirit

Whether they would like him to go to oblivion or keep his name as a real challenge, the Medjugorje apparitions story may never be complete without the mention of the former priest, Tomislav Vlasic, who voluntarily like Judas took it upon himself to take care of the seers there.