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Looking Forward to Our Five Hundredth
Go and make disciples… (Mt. 28:19)
We look forward with gratitude and joy to March 16, 2021, the fifth centenary of the coming of Christianity to our beloved land. We remember with thanksgiving the first Mass celebrated in Limasawa Island on Easter Sunday March 31 that same blessed year. We remember the baptism of Rajah Humabon who was given his Christian name Carlos and his wife Hara Amihan who was baptized Juana in 1521. Our eyes gaze on the Santo Niño de Cebu, the oldest religious icon in the Philippines, gift of Ferdinand Magellan to the first Filipino Catholics that same year. Indeed the year 2021 will be a year of great jubilee for the Church in the Philippines.
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2 Responses to Winning the World through the Word
Do you really believe in all those fairy tales.The Spaniards were like the Muslim bringing religion as a means to subjugate the natives and we should be thankful?BTW another fiction is the Sto/ Nino is it not that the patron of Spain is the Virgin Mary just look at Mexico and South America.This Sto Nino is another hoax Homabaon had an anito that look just like the Sto. Nino.Another hoax is the cross of Magellan if it is really true that what is inside the wood casing is the original cross that Magellan planted in Cebu why is it that there is no image of that original cross.
It would enhance the believability of the Catholic Church if it can start knowing there is absolutely no reference to a mass of whatever kind in the Limasawa story.The word “Limasawa” is a neologism–an invented word–that signifies the island it points to is NOT Mazaua, the real island where Magellan’s fleet was moored on the week of March 28-April 4, 1521. It was also invented by Jesuit priest, Fr. Francisco Combes, to dismiss the idea there was ever a mass held in the archipelago on Easter Sunday, 31 March 1521. If the Church can’t even fix a historical fact that’s KNOWABLE, how does it expect the people to know what is UNKNOWABLE or patently UNBELIEVABLE? To understand how the Limasawa story has been transformed from an totally confused “history” to a HOAX, go to https://picasaweb.google.com/103135314023445858830/AmbethOcampoSLimasawaHoaxOhWhatATangledWebWeWeaveWhenFirstWePractiseToDeceive#
Vicente Calibo de Jesus
October 26, 2012 at 1:00 pm Reply
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Do you really believe in all those fairy tales.The Spaniards were like the Muslim bringing religion as a means to subjugate the natives and we should be thankful?BTW another fiction is the Sto/ Nino is it not that the patron of Spain is the Virgin Mary just look at Mexico and South America.This Sto Nino is another hoax Homabaon had an anito that look just like the Sto. Nino.Another hoax is the cross of Magellan if it is really true that what is inside the wood casing is the original cross that Magellan planted in Cebu why is it that there is no image of that original cross.
Manuel C. Diaz
October 19, 2012 at 1:38 am
It would enhance the believability of the Catholic Church if it can start knowing there is absolutely no reference to a mass of whatever kind in the Limasawa story.The word “Limasawa” is a neologism–an invented word–that signifies the island it points to is NOT Mazaua, the real island where Magellan’s fleet was moored on the week of March 28-April 4, 1521. It was also invented by Jesuit priest, Fr. Francisco Combes, to dismiss the idea there was ever a mass held in the archipelago on Easter Sunday, 31 March 1521. If the Church can’t even fix a historical fact that’s KNOWABLE, how does it expect the people to know what is UNKNOWABLE or patently UNBELIEVABLE? To understand how the Limasawa story has been transformed from an totally confused “history” to a HOAX, go to https://picasaweb.google.com/103135314023445858830/AmbethOcampoSLimasawaHoaxOhWhatATangledWebWeWeaveWhenFirstWePractiseToDeceive#
Vicente Calibo de Jesus
October 26, 2012 at 1:00 pm