The miracle of Mass for my mother's conversion

 

God has used my sufferings to save sinners -- so I was told by a prophetic man of God.

Probably, one of the concrete beneficiaries of my sufferings was my mother who lived an adulterous relationship with my father, already a married man.

My father was petitioned to immigrate to California in 1979 together with his legal wife and the first family for "greener pasture."

He would go back to the country probably every two years to be with us.

While father was away, I would talk to my mother to try to end their sinful relationship. I would tell her, it's OK to be friends with him but "no strings attached" -- meaning, no bed activities whatsoever. She agreed.

One time, he never came back for five or so years.

After 10 years of no communication, father was suddenly back.

But the tone of Ma's story was already different.

She never kept what she agreed upon.

I rebelled, somehow. Ma told Pa, I kept telling her to sever ties with him as it was sinful.

They both knew their relationship was sinful because every time they went to Mass together, they would not take Holy Communion.

Father arranged an occasion to talk to me alone and told me it would be easy for him to leave my mother, had she been unfaithful to him for all those years he had been away.

So life went on.

Later in life, there was a time I was too sick to go to Mass on a particular Sunday. God would understand. I was exempted to attend Mass on that Sunday because I was very sick. But I bargained with the Lord that should I be able to attend Mass that Sunday, He would grant my prayer-request on Monday. In short, I had been given the strength to attend Mass despite my illness because I would be granted the prayer I would be asking Him in exchange for the Mass I would attend that Sunday.

The prayer-request I chose to ask from the Lord: for my mother to confess to a priest her adulterous relationship with my father!

To cut the story short, I was able to attend Mass that Sunday.

But I was not expectant God would answer that prayer. It was enough for me it made me able to go to Mass that Sunday.

Next day was a Monday.

Mother woke up at dawn to prepare to go to church! She had not been doing that.

I did not ask why and for what.

When she returned, her eyes were swollen and reddish as if fresh from shedding tears.

"What happened to you, Ma?" I asked.

"I just went to confession!" -- she said.

I gasped.

"What did you confess?" -- I asked again, excited for her reply.

She said, "My relationship with your father!"

After that, Ma was graced by God this way: Pa's legal wife called her up via overseas call and Ma was able to ask for forgiveness -- to her and to all her children. Mama was trembling talking through the phone. She was forgiven.

Fast forward, Ma had a heart attack and was able to recover. She was able to talk still and she used that opportunity to talk to my father over the phone, to end everything with both of them. Father was only listening to everything my mother said.

And then she had a fatal stroke so that she was already unable to talk. Out of desire, she "confessed" to a visiting priest who gave her extreme unction before she died days after.

Types of visions in my experience

 

Visions, according to my personal experiences, are seen through three ways or, if I may add one, four ways: dreams during sleep, visions seen while my eyes are closed before the Blessed Sacrament, visions seen while I am conscious or in my waking state and natural impressions captured by my camera that, I learned later, have prophetic significance. Let me term the fourth way as "photo-vision" -- or prophetic vision captured through photographs.

The most common are visions seen through dreams and the most rare are visions seen while I am wide awake.

Seeing visions while I am conscious and awake are done two ways: seeing a vision with my own eyes but only I can see it (in my recollection, this kind of vision happened only once and it happened during one of my daily activities); and seeing visions through my mind's eye (this happened a number of times during Holy Masses).

There is still one way that I have difficulty putting a terminology on and this is the fifth way of seeing visions. It's as if God put into my eyes how He sees and it happened during the Holy Masses I attended way back before.

Thinking it was an angel, I was aghast to see it was the Lord Jesus!

 

I had these visions on three separate occasions I visited the Blessed Sacrament chapel of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish in Obrero.

On the first day, I was seated on the carpeted floor of the chapel before the Blessed Sacrament as there were no chairs and kneelers yet provided for adorers. While my eyes were closed, a silky light green robe-wearing apparition I perceived as angel carrying an earthen jar was coming to me from the altar and poured water into my lap while I was squatting on the floor.

On the second day, there was this apparition again coming to me carrying an earthen jar -- this time, pouring water into my head but the water was laced with some garbage! Meditating over the apparition, I made up my mind to look up on my next visit to be able to see the face of an angel.

A trial was already besetting me in that church, a wealthy woman was wary on my presence although I was only attending the Mass or praying the rosary. I was like regarded a snatcher or a robber or a lunatic or a weirdo. She appeared afraid of me. She even clang or held onto her husband in fear almost crying. And I suffered because the way she perceived me was not true in reality.

On the third and final day, there came to me this apparition again -- now carrying an elongated, almost flat clam. I was all eyes every time to what the apparition was carrying. The apparition opened the clam before my sight and inside the clam were revealed full of pearls and I was awed at its beauty. There, I remembered my plan to look up and see the face of the angelic apparition. Slowly, carefully, although excited to see the face of an angel, I brought my face slowly up -- and, lo, the penetrating gaze of the Eyes of the Lord Jesus of the Sacred Heart met mine! Surprised, it was the Lord all along since Day 1; I gasped and opened my eyes!

From sprinkler to shower

Prior to the pandemic, when the new Blessed Sacrament chapel of Sta. Ana Shrine Parish was opened to the public, I had a vision of the Lord Jesus Christ when I closed my eyes before the Blessed Sacrament. There were no chairs and kneelers yet for the adorers. We just knelt on the floor before the altar of the Blessed Sacrament.

I was kneeling in the right side of the chapel and other adorers were spread on the whole floor also kneeling. When I began to close my eyes facing the Blessed Sacrament, I saw the feet of Jesus (both marked with wounds) as it was in the act of going down the altar. The wound was fresh and red yet not bleeding. I was only looking intently at His Feet and the end part of His white satin robe flowing.

When the Lord was already standing on the floor, He blessed each one present with holy water using a sprinkler like a priest does -- but when the Lord turned to me, the sprinkler became a shower and He didn't take it away from me so that I opened my eyes in astonishment and the vision ended.

Earliest vision: 3 huge pillars of smoke

One of the earliest, unforgettable visions that I saw in my dream was a vision of three huge pillars of smoke rising and swirling up to the heavens from the earth as I looked at myself standing on the earth looking to the vision amidst the immensity of the outer space.

Cardinal Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV meets Satanist leader

 

Jose Enrique Escardó Steck, a fighting "atheist" from Peru, who at the invitation of the false Cardinal Bob Prevost (currently Anti-Pope Leon XIV) met Antipope Francis in January 2025. How much more proof do people need? (English translation from the post)

Source:

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/19iLPjUtwZ/

The theater building dream and the dream realization

On the first day of 2024, I had a dream while I was taking a nap in the afternoon.

In the dream, I saw a building that to me seemed to be a theater made from a grand mountain rock where we -- my brother and I -- had to perform an act that seemed to be acrobatics.

The two of us had to hang on something in the center stage in order to perform.

While I was already hanging and my younger brother followed suit, there were some errors in his place so that I told him to get off first in order to get it fixed.

End of dream.

About one 'o clock at dawn of June 17th, 2024 during my stint as a homeless, street person, sleeping in the sidewalk, I was awakened by the rain and tried to sit to see the time on my cellphone, it was past 1:00 AM. But I had difficulty sitting up and my left arm and hand holding on to something and I kept falling back.I tried to stand up. I was able to stand up by getting hold of a parallel bar nearby. And I could not stand by my left leg. It dawned on me I was having a stroke!

I shouted amidst the deafening sound of the rain, "God, what did You do to me?" and cried.

I tried to go back to my cardboard sleeping mat by falling forward.

I was sleeping alone! And nobody would help me at that time. I took my cellphone and I realized I still had one percent battery! I used that opportunity to immediately chat my nephew about my whereabouts and my predicament.

My nephew took a taxi to fetch and deliver me to my sister's house -- already in the morning! My other sister who is in another country was informed and decided to get me hospitalized. I ended up being admitted to a hospital.

I revealed I have an open wound on my left lower leg which was already infected. So the internal medicine-neurologist assigned to me referred me to a surgeon who at once told me to undergo operation for my open wound to see the extent of the infection and cleanse the wound of the infection.

That was my first experience of being admitted to a hospital and having entered for operation in an operating room!

And while I was ushered into the operating room, I was aghast to see a room being labeled "Theater 1." I was ushered in to "Theater 2." I remembered my dream in the new year of 2024! I realized it was the will of God for me to undergo the procedure. I surrendered my whole life and said, "Thy Will be done, Lord!" When the oxygen was placed to my nostrils, my next remembrance was: I was already in the Recovery Room with other patients.

My surgeon said my infection did not go deeper to affect my bone so he would proceed to have me undergo skin grafting to cover my open wound. But first he had to extract sample of the wound tissue for laboratory test to see if the organism could only be eradicated by antibiotics. Thankfully, the lab test showed the organism was not that bad and could only be eradicated by antibiotics!

The surgeon subjected me for another operation. I had to enter operating room again. And I saw there the "Theater 3" but I was ushered in again to "Theater 2."

My recovery was longer than expected because the surgeon had to put a tube into my mouth (as we always see in the movies and TV soap operas!) because my blood pressure jacked up during the operation.

What about my brother I saw in my dream, who "performed with me in the Theater"?

He was actually my brother who volunteered to be my "caregiver" or "watcher" while in the hospital and even after I was discharged from the hospital.

Days before I succumbed to stroke, I went to see my brother and I learned his rehabilitation was being processed. However, he did not want to undergo rehabilitation again for the third time because for him if someone wants to change he could do it even without the aid of rehabilitation. He had undergone rehabilitation twice but still went back to his vice. I told him to explain the matter to my sister who wanted him to undergo the process once again. He wanted a "self-rehab" by living in a farm, doing piggery and poultry.

And then, something happened to me and he has volunteered to be my caregiver! Until my strength gets better through physical therapy.

My lab tests revealed I am not a diabetic. For the last three months, my blood sugar had been four. This has surprised us in the family because our family history showed we have been diabetics, our blood sugar counts are higher than normal.

Poor blood circulation, my doctor said, was the culprit for my condition -- skin diseases and the darkening of the color of my lower legs. And not diabetes. It could be recalled that I had suffered eczema for 12 years; but after that period, I was healed by itself!

And then, another form of skin disease had appeared this time after several years when my eczema had ended.

Hypertension is in our bloodline as other generational curses have been passed down on us by our ancestors; and I am awaiting the realization of my night dream before when the generational curses are lifted off of me and my bloodline during my sleep.

Prayer for the Synod on Synodality

We stand before You, Holy Spirit, as we gather together in Your name.

With You alone to guide us, make Yourself at home in our hearts;

Teach us the way we must go and how we are to pursue it.

We are weak and sinful; do not let us promote disorder.

Do not let ignorance lead us down the wrong path nor partiality influence our actions.

Let us find in You our unity so that we may journey together to eternal life and not stray from the way of truth and what is right.

All this we ask of You, who are at work in every place and time, in the communion of the Father and the Son, forever and ever.

Amen.

source: usccb.org

Nagabarog kami sa imong atubangan, O Balaang Espiritu, sa among panagtigum diha sa imong ngalan.

Ikaw lamang ang among bugtong nga giya; pabilin sa pagpuyo sulod sa among mga kasingkasing. Itudlo kanamo ang dalan nga kinahanglan namong subayon ug unsaon namo pagpadayon.

Kami mga maluya ug makasasala, ayaw itugot nga kami magpasiugda'g kagubot. Ayaw itugot nga ang kawalay-kasayuran magbira kanamo ngadto sa sayop nga dalan, ni ang pagkamapihigon mohaylo sa among mga lihok.

Himoa nga diha kanimo makaplagan namo ang among kahiusahan, aron kami managkauban nga nagapanaw padulong sa kinabuhing walay katapusan ug dili mapapag-hilayo sa dalan sa kamatuoran ug sa katarung.

Kining tanan among gipangayo Kanimo nga nagapamuhat sa tanang panahon ug dapit, diha sa panaghiusa sa Amahan ug sa Anak, hangtud sa kahangturan. Amen.

--PRAYER FOR THE SYNOD

Adsumus Sancte Spiritus (Cebuano)

Update: Accessed anew!

Through the grace and mercy of God, I have accessed anew this blog by a means divinely prepared beforehand for the recent difficulty and problem imposed by the blogger.com for this blog. I have just changed my former SMS phone number listed for recovery and security for this blog (because the said phone number is already deactivated), thus it was real impossible for me to change the number, as the website required me to send them the code they sent me through the deactivated phone number. But here, I am able to  change the extant number to an SMS phone number already personally registered via an Android phone (having the registered SMS phone number) where I opened the blog before and, by Divine Providence, I was unable to sign out. This is where I have accessed the blog anew and I was able to change the deactivated phone number to a registered number currently used. God is truly protecting and is the One running this blog. Deo gratias! Soli Deo gloria!

Important notice

I am experiencing difficulty as regards to getting backup codes to access this blog. If this problem is not fixed, this may be the last update or post for this blog. I cannot think of any remedy at the moment. I just trust on the Divine Help.

Doctrine of Faith's declaration on Masonic associations

 

CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH DECLARATION ON MASONIC ASSOCIATIONS It has been asked whether there has been any change in the Church's decision in regard to Masonic associations since the new Code of Canon Law does not mention them expressly, unlike the previous Code. This Sacred Congregation is in a position to reply that this circumstance in due to an editorial criterion which was followed also in the case of other associations likewise unmentioned inasmuch as they are contained in wider categories. Therefore the Church's negative judgment in regard to Masonic association remains unchanged since their principles have always been considered irreconcilable with the doctrine of the Church and therefore membership in them remains forbidden. The faithful who enrol in Masonic associations are in a state of grave sin and may not receive Holy Communion. It is not within the competence of local ecclesiastical authorities to give a judgment on the nature of Masonic associations which would imply a derogation from what has been decided above, and this in line with the Declaration of this Sacred Congregation issued on 17 February 1981 (cf. AAS 73 1981 pp. 240-241; English language edition of L'Osservatore Romano, 9 March 1981). In an audience granted to the undersigned Cardinal Prefect, the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II approved and ordered the publication of this Declaration which had been decided in an ordinary meeting of this Sacred Congregation. Rome, from the Office of the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, 26 November 1983. Joseph Card. RATZINGER Prefect + Fr. Jerome Hamer, O.P. Titular Archbishop of Lorium Secretary source: vatican.va