Saturday, June 14, 2008

My Reflection about the Circular

Ave Maria Purissima...

The Athanasian Creed rightly and solemnly says :

Alia est enim persona Patris alia Filii, alia Spiritus Sancti: Sed Patris, et Fili, et Spiritus Sancti una est divinitas, aequalis gloria, coaeterna maiestas. Qualis Pater, talis Filius, talis Spiritus Sanctus.

For there is one Person of the Father, another of the Son, another of the Holy Spirit.But the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit have one divinity, equal glory, and coeternal majesty. What the Father is, the Son is, and the Holy Spirit is.



To: All Parish Priest and Principals of All Diocesan and Congregational Schools in the Diocese of Novaliches

Our office has received several queries about the Apostolic Catholic Church. Parish Priests have complained that their priests go around our parishes soliciting funds sowing confusion to our Catholic Faithful, with their claim that the Apostolic Catholic Church is the same as the Roman Catholic Church.

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I think and believe this is an eye opener to most of us, sealed servants, that we must stand courageously, yet humble and patient, for our faith in Mahal na INGKONG, and His Church, the Apostolic Catholic Church, which is founded on the same foundation as do all Catholic and Orthodox Churches,one and united with the true profession of faith of the Apostles, the Fathers, and the Ecumenical Councils.

It is true that our Church is the same as the Roman Catholic Church in many ways as much as it has similarities with the Eastern Orthodox practices. It is what our Mahal na INGKONG desires to fulfill within our Church - to preserve, safeguard, and unite, the true and genuine apostolic catholic doctrines and practices of both the Eastern and the Western Christendom. This is evident in our Church Logo where you can see the Eastern and the Western Crosses and in the middle is the dove, signifying Mahal na INGKONG.




Our church stands in the middle. We try and persevere to foster unity of all true and genuine Catholic and Orthodox churches, large or small- this is an endless journey of faith and action with the Holy Spirit. We are opening the eyes of the many people that the Roman Catholic is NOT the only Catholic Church in the world. The Holy Faith and tradition come from the teachings of the [Jewish] Apostles and their successors. Sts Peter and Paul are not romans, they are Jewish by birth.



Let us re-echo the messages of Mahal na INGKONG thru the Holy covenant, St.Maria Virginia - CATHOLICS ARE NOT ONLY THE ROMANS, AND THE CHURCH OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST IS NOT ONLY THE ROMAN CHURCH. There are other TRUE APOSTOLIC SEES that up to now still exist in the world - the Eastern Orthodox Churches, and the small, yet valid orthodox and catholic churches.


Our Patriarch, aside from the fact that he was commissioned by Mahal na INGKONG, is of the same status and rank as all the other Patriarchs of the Christendom. Having a small community of believers or church does not change the dignity, rank and authority of a certain Patriarch or Bishop.



The tongue of fire received by St.Andrew is no lesser from what St.Thomas received in Pentecost.

And our community, the sealed servants and the faithful, is not a small community. We are present not only in the Philippines, but in the United States as well, in Canada, in London,in Hong Kong,Latin America, and in other countries due to the presence and missionary activities of the sealed servants OFW there.

Our church is full of men and women dedicated to the service of the Gospel and the Messages of Mahal na INGKONG. When they were ordained as priests they are no less in dignity with the Roman priests. When they are elevated to the episcopate they are no less in dignity, honor and rank with the Roman Bishops. Our clergies are higher than them for they are not only missionaries of the second person of the Trinity, but of the Third Person as well, Mahal na INGKONG.

It is time that we must cease to think and feel that we are like Romans- we are not Romans- we are INGKONG's. We are not servants and children of the Romans; we are children of our Beloved INGKONG and of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

If they, indeed, are children of the true church and of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Theotokos, they would have received and embraced us long time ago. And as Mahal na INGKONG said, "AYAW MAN KAYONG TANGGAPIN, TAO LANG ANG HINDI TUMATANGGAP SA INYO, ANG BAHAY NG DIYOS AY MALUWANG PARA PASUKIN NG LAHAT, PAGANO, O INDIO MAN, NA GUSTONG PASAKOP." [ The House of God is wide for everyone to enter, if they {Roman Priests of the Philippines} do not accept you, it was them alone who do not accept you!]



The Father's church, or religion whom later accused and crucified our Lord Jesus Christ, was Judaism - the Pharasees and the Scribes. If they accepted and recognized our Lord as the Son of the Father, and the Christ, I think He would not have established His 'own' church through the Apostles. In the Last Supper, our Lord Jesus Christ told the apostles about the Third Person, who will come in His name from the Father- the Paraclete whom the world cannot accept, for He cannot be seen. We thank Him for we can see, recognize and hear Mahal na INGKONG through St. Maria Virginia or through the Holy Patriarch, by the eyes of faith graced to the elect, i.e. sealed servant.



The Son's church which He founded is the ONE HOLY CATHOLIC AND APOSTOLIC CHURCH. There is only one church, it is holy, it is universal or catholic and it is apostolic. These are the four marks of the true church- pertaining not to the edifice , nor about color, language, or geographical habitation.

The one church which was divided, not by God nor by the Holy Spirit, but by the pride and ambition of man.

The Church of Christ, in her first hundreds of years exists in harmony and if heresy arise the Bishops-successors of the apostles, collectively settles the issues and problems thru the so called Ecumenical Council.



There were five great Christian Catholic and Orthodox churches before, the Church of Rome, Constantinople,Alexandria, Antioch,and Jerusalem; each of which is presided by its own Patriarch or Supreme Bishop, it was called PENTARCHY.


The Patriarchs respect and work in communion harmoniously with each other. They are one spiritually having God the Father, the only and One Father of all. The four Patriarchs namely Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem accorded due honor to the Patriarch of Rome - for being sitted on the Capital of the Empire and possesses great political power and material wealth. They gave him the honorary title of being the Elder brother, NOT AS THEIR SUPREME BISHOP OR FATHER.



Each Patriarch is the supreme bishop of his own church or community where he has bishops and priests under him.This arrangement works for centuries and the Church journeys peacefully and the true Christian Charity, Unity, Faith govern the lives of the faithful.

There is no discrimination, there is no alienation. Bishops and Priests welcome with open arms, in the spirit of being the father of the faithful, the people who come to attend in the celebration of the Sacrifice of the Holy Mass. If I am baptised in the Church of Antioch, I can go and attend the Liturgy without being singled out in the Church of Constantinople and to any other churches of the Undivided Christendom. Each church respect the unique expression, local to the faithful, of the same Catholic and Apostolic Faith. All churches profess the NICENE CREED without the FILIOQUE.

Even Pope Leo III (792A.D.) engraved this formula, without Filioque, on plates of gold and silver, in Greek and Latin, affixed it to the left and right of St.Peter's tomb [in Rome].

The once undivided Christendom was divided by the ambition of man to rise above the others, and by the evilness of his heart- it cannot be the work of the Holy Spirit to divide the Church of Christ.





The Church was divided on the issue of the Holy Spirit and the 'filioque'. Now the Holy Spirit manifested Himself, as do the Son, to unite the faithful into love and respect of all the other Christian Churches, especially those with the valid mandate and apostolic line of succession -as they are indeed our true brethren, the descendants of the faith and teachings of the apostles. But this Filioque issue was only one of the issues - most of which, as I said, were not actions of the Holy Spirit - but due to the ambition and evil heart of men, of those wolves clothed of lamb's skin.

We, if you ever heard our priests when they read the dipthycs [the prayer portion in the liturgy dedicated for asking God to bless each of the Patriarchs of the Apostolic Sees.], pray for the Patriarch of Rome, Constantinople,Antioch,Alexandria,Jerusalem, Greece, and our own Patriarch John Florentine, including the Patriarchs of small churches with valid apostolic line of succession. Here is the prayer:

"We also fervently pray for the blessing and guidance of Your Major Patriarchs throughout the world, including the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (Bartholomew I), the Patriarch of Rome (Benedict XVI), the Patriarchs of Jerusalem (Theophilos III), Antioch (Ignatius IV), Alexandria (Theodoros II), Greece (Ireneos I), Moscow (Alexei II) and the Philippines (John Florentine), as well as the legitimate Minor Patriarchs of the various traditions."

Do the Roman priests and bishops still pray for the other Patriarchs of the Christendom? I did not hear them even once!This is how we long for the unity of all the Catholic Churches, the same longing implanted in our soul by our Mahal na INGKONG. True ecumenism accepts, each other, that we are one and of the same root and tree - our differences may lie on the way we express our faith, as each country has its own culture and language so thus we express one and the same apostolic and catholic faith in the unique way akin to our Christian life.

The Holy Spirit,as it is written in the Sacred Scripture that He, will come and reveal His New Name to the elect - the sealed servant, the overcomer; that name is INGKONG.[Apocalypse 3:12].

"QUALIS PATER, TALIS FILIUS, TALIS SPIRITUS SANCTUS"

As the Father has Judaism, the Pharisees and the Scribes, the Son has One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, so thus the Holy Spirit being one with the Father and the Son, does have His Church, one with the faith of that of the Father [monotheistic] and the Son [One Holy Catholic, Orthodox, Apostolic, Church], the Apostolic Catholic Church. As the Father reveals about the Son, the Son about the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit in turns reveals the true teachings of the Father and the Son.

Mahal na INGKONG, thru His Church, gathers into His fold all true Catholic and Orthodox Christians, to sanctify, teach, and remind them of the true meaning of Christian love, unity and true faith.


More often than not their priests call themselves as Bishops or Monsignors or simply Fathers after a little training.
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From where and what school did the apostles of the Son study? Do they have master's degree or doctorate degrees from the great universities of their time? NO! They were fishermen by profession, and sinners as well! This was to confound the mighty and the learned. The church's list of saints is full of holy men and women who became doctors of faith without having gone into academies, yet we owed them the great wisdom and holy practices. Little training does not necessarily mean little wisdom! The flesh is weak but the SPIRIT is willing, strong and able.

What our clergies deliver is the true nourishment of the soul, the Holy Sacraments; seven in number. Will the Holy Spirit's action be impeded by the unlearned, and unschooled brain of the minister? So much to say, our clergies learned from the direct teaching of Mahal na INGKONG - the highest teacher a clergy can ever have while still living in garment of flesh.



Yes, most of the Roman priests are, maybe, more eloquent and knowledgeable from their universities or seminaries, maybe we are not the same as they are but it does not diminish the knowledge, wisdom, and dignity that [we] our clergies learned directly from the Third Person of the Holy Trinity, who is the Spirit of God Himself. Our clergies were taught by the Great Teacher Himself.

It is written, "the Holy Spirit will speak through you!" However, Mahal na INGKONG encourages and mandated the clergies, sealed servants and the faithful to study and live the word of God, as it is in the Holy Scripture, and of the History and tradition of the Catholic Church.Holiness and knowledge of one's faith empower him to defend and stand unmoved in his faith.

What we, the sealed servants and our clergies can pride of, is our affinity to the Covenant of the Third Person of the Holy Trinity, as much as the Father made His covenant with Abraham, Isaac,Jacob and to His seed; the Son made His new covenant with the Apostles i.e. the church; so thus the Holy Spirit made His covenant with Patriarch John Florentine and his mother that from him and his seed will spring the people of the New Jerusalem. This covenant which is about to be written, though for several years now is already written within the hearts and souls of the sealed servants - written by the last drop of blood of our Lord Jesus in calvary availed by our Beloved Patriarch John.


We are not the only ones who call our clergies, 'Priests', 'Monsignors','Bishops', and 'Archbishops' MAHAL NA INGKONG CALLS THEM HIS PRIEST, HIS MONSIGNOR, HIS BISHOPS AND HIS ARCHBISHOPS. Their hands were blessed, sanctified and consecrated by the Holy Spirit Himself which no priest of the Romans can equal. AND IT DOES NOT CHANGE THE FACT THAT MAHAL NA INGKONG, with the same power, divinity, majesty, as that of the Son and the Father, chose, ordained and consecrated our clergies to the sacred order through our Patriarch.


Usually, they appear well groomed in spotless white and thus seem more priestly than some of our Catholic priests. They also have sisters in long white robes.
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Purihin ang Mahal na INGKONG, our obedience to the attire of the Blessed Virgin Mary is recognized- one of our little ways of evangelizing and attracting people to come back to the true and proper way of Christian deportment. Our way of honoring the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Theotokos, and of averting the punishment of God as foretold by the Blessed Mother 'Famines are abundant on earth, because women no longer honor my attire!'

Deuteronomy 22:5 says "A woman shall not be clothed with man's apparel, neither shall a man use woman's apparel: for he that doeth these things is abominable before God." It was forbidden by God because with this practice, men and women honors Venus,Mars or Priapus.

Priests must be identified; they should not hide their identity to the faithful by dressing like one of them.Let their visibility reminds the people that, more than ever in today's troubled times, there are priests whom they can approach and seek the grace of God through the Holy Sacraments. Let through the simple observance of priestly attire [subtly] evangelizes the people that Christ still walks on earth in these last days. Clergies are set aside and chosen by God to live a holy life, obedience, and was set as an example to many. Obedience is not alone in the mind and heart, it should manifest concretely and materially. The gospel of St. John says "...and the Word was made flesh and dwelth among us." Our Lord Jesus Christ, eternal Word of the Father, clothed Himself with immaculate flesh of the Virgin Mary.

The Word does not come bare and naked without the right and proper garment proper to its state and glory. He clothed Himself then went preaching about the Kingdom of God. A priest, as representative of Christ and the Church, must wear attire akin to his dignity and ministry. Let them not play hide and seek with the faithful wherever they go. Let them announce and be known that they are priests and there are still good and truly obedient priests.


A fundamental principle in the work of ecumenism is to point out not only what is the same among the churches but also to accept honestly, even if sadly, that each is different from the other.
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It is so sad that we build barriers and fences rather than bridges and roads to reach out for each other. Our Church, almost a decade now, is active in promoting dialogues to build the common ground where all Christians can unite as one and the same family under the Christ of God. Yes, there are differences and that caused our separation. If we really intend to unite, let's go deeper into our common source of faith and belief as the spokes of the wheel to its center.

What makes all the Catholic and Orthodox Churches one and united to each other is the common root of our Faith, the apostolic tradition, the apostolic succession, the ecumenical councils, the profession of faith , the common history; on these things we must capitalize to foster unity.

Our Patriarch John is tirelessly involving himself with many ecumenical activities in the Philippines and abroad, and he also mingles with the bishops of the Roman Church, the CBCP. The late Jaime Cardinal Sin knew him, as well as Bishop Iniguez. He attends and participates in international religious events, I am just wondering how come our Church is being labeled Cult. We are not a secret society, INGKONG is teaching in the open, our church door is open, the holy land is open for visitation.



As your Bishop, I want to inform all Catholics that the Apostolic Catholic Church is a cult founded by the mother of its present Patriarch, John Florentine L. Teruel.
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The cult deceivingly resembles the Roman Catholic Church because they have some vestiges of the true faith, like worship of the Triune God: Father, Son and the Holy Spirit and devotion to our blessed Mother Mary under the title Ina ng Poong Bato.
They recite the Rosary and make novenas.

Also in a very particular way, they call God the Holy Spirit Ingkong.
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The Ganapan of Mahal na INGKONG is broadcasted online on www.justintv.com, records of His messages in mp3 formats can be freely downloaded in the ACC Official website and from this blog as well. We are doing our annual Marian Procession in Manila; before it was at Quezon Memorial Circle and for the past few years at Luneta Grandstand.




WE DO NOT EXIST IN ISOLATION, WE ARE NOT SECRET SOCIETY NOR IS OUR FAITH IS RESERVED AMONG THE FEW...THE DOOR OF OUR CHURCH AND THE GANAPAN ARE OPEN FOR EVERYONE TO COME.



There is one big difference I know we can be proud of with other Christian churches including the Roman Catholic Church in the Philippines - they are worshiping the Holy Spirit whom they do not know the Name. For us, WE WORSHIP THE HOLY SPIRIT WHOSE NAME WE KNOW, AND THAT NAME IS INGKONG. Familiar words? Yes, St. Paul also preached to the gentiles about the god the gentiles worships whose name they do not know, but St Paul said to them 'We worship the God we know who'. So we, sealed servants, do not call on an unknown Holy Spirit. We call Him by His name, as much as we call the Father's and the Son's name, Yahweh and Jesus Christ.




However, since the Apostolic Catholic Church does not accept the supremacy of the Pope of Rome but recognizes only Patriarch Teruel, the Apostolic Catholic Church thus is Schismatic Church.

We are NOT in communion with the Patriarch of Rome, in a sense of submitting ourselves to His or in its Government. Our Church is auto-cephalic, self-governing church; you may want to call it schismatic from Rome or separated from Rome - but it does not make our Church a cult and a false one. The Church of Antioch, Jerusalem,Constantinople, Greece,Alexandria and all other independent orthodox and Old Roman Catholic Churches with their Patriarchs or Bishops were not under the government of Rome, yet they are not cults- they are true Orthodox and Catholic, and true Churches. St.Peter and Paul were not only the Apostles of Jesus Christ.



Even the Apostles and the growing Christians in the early years of the Church of the Son were called by the Jews, primarily by the high priest of the Father's religion, cultic, fanatic, and ignorant followers of the crucified Jesus. The high priest does not believe that Jesus is the Son of God and the promised Messiah. The priests of the Father and their adherents stoned many early Christians to death. And what could be the situation of Beloved INGKONG, the world cannot see Him, the Roman priests could not see Him, and they cannot even recognize true Catholicity in us. This caused our persecution, they are persecuting their own brothers and sisters. They hate us without cause. They call non-catholics their brothers and sisters while treating us otherwise. I particularly pray that our spirit-seals encourage us to stand strong and stable in our holy faith, faith to Beloved INGKONG, His Church and the hierarchy - Apostolic Catholic Church, to the Patriarch John Florentine Teruel, to Beloved St.Maria Virginia, and to all that is right, good, and noble.

The new faith, is in fact, the continuation, the restoration of the purity, and the unfolding of the true teaching of the Father through the Son. Now, in the time of the Holy Spirit, as Beloved INGKONG brings down and enthrones among the sealed servants the holy spirits [dwelling in] from heavenly Jerusalem, the enemy is also sowing and enthroning among people, either ignorant or hard-hearted, the counter-spirit to hinder and destroy the fulfillment of God’s Plan. But as Beloved INGKONG said, "HINDI NILA KAILANMAN MAI-GIGIBA ANG TIBAY AT TATAG NG ESPIRITU SANTO."[They cannot destroy the strength and fortification of the Holy Spirit.]

Its members therefore have ceased to be Roman Catholics.

We ceased to be Roman Catholic when the priest of that particular parish do not accept us and do not give us Holy Communion. We ceased to be Romans when those who are supposed to be learned in the Church and father of the faithful unreasonably singled us out as satanic, evil and with infectious diseases.

It happened in many parishes that when the Roman priest saw a female APO, he could not stand the sight of her,in white decent attire and with long veil on her head, silently listening in the holy mass; following his own judgment, during the communion, he denied her the holy Eucharist,as if she was a great sinner unworthy to receive the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ.If he would allow her to speak he might recognize her voice that among his parishioners she's the only one who has gone into confession lately. This necessitates the Holy Spirit, Beloved INGKONG to have His own church so as not to deprive the sealed servant the true body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, and other Holy Sacraments of the Catholic Church. We do not scatter the faithful, we lead the way how a true Catholic and Orthodox should be. We attract people to follow the life of prayer, sacrifice, and the observance of the Sacraments of the Church.

It is those who are not Catholics who scatter the flock - and we are not one of them. The Manalista, the J. Witnesses pluck the faithful from believing in the Trinity, the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Sacraments, the Church, the priest and all the Catholic believe. But, we in the APOSTOLIC CATHOLIC CHURCH DO NOT. Instead, we gather people to the Mystical Body of Christ as all true and genuine priests and laymen of the Church.

It does not mean that when i am not attending the mass and befriended the parish priest of another town ,Sta.Ines Parish and attending services elsewhere in the Diocese, I am not Catholic! The Roman Catholic is not the only Catholic in the World. It so happened that here in the Philippines, Roman Catholics are more popular than the Orthodox Churches, considering the 300years of Spanish Reginme and of the Prayle. [Though prior to that, Orthodox Missionaries have already landed on our shores and Christianized the Maharlika island along with China and Japan]



The Apostolic Catholic Church is thus, not the same as but is very different from the Roman Catholic Church we were all baptized into.



I was baptized and confirmed in the National Shrine of Saint Anne, a Roman Catholic Church in Bulacan, and I was not required to be baptized and confirmed again in the Apostolic Catholic Church when I decided to follow Beloved INGKONG - the teaching of the Church: The Holy Sacrament of Baptism and Confirmation cannot be repeated without great sin of sacrilege. We followed it more than the Roman priests believe and know.

This circular is to be read in all Sunday, including Anticipated Masses of April and May 2008.

Purihin ang Mahal na INGKONG, people become aware of the existence of Apostolic Catholic Church, the more they will get interested in knowing her. I personally thank the good Bishop for the free advertisement; Beloved INGKONG will make the light shine out of these temporal dark clouds that the good and well intentioned Bishop created. It could happen that wrong or incomplete information was received by His office, who knows!

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Response of His Holiness Patriarch John Teruel to Archbishop Tobias Circular

21 May 2008

To All the Faithful in Christ;

Attention: EXECOM - National Council of Churches in the Philippines, May 22, 2008

Greetings of Peace to all! SHALOM!!! Kapayapaan!!! May our Almighty God bless, guide and protect us all.

The Circular 2008-05, The Apostolic Catholic Church, of the Most Rev. Antonio R. Tobias, DD, Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church of the Diocese of Novaliches, Attested by Rev. Fr. Jaime Z. Lara, Chancellor, Addressed to All Parish Priests and Principals of All Diocesan and Congregational Schools in the Diocese of Novaliches, is a Gross Acussation that devastated me as a Religious Person being the Patriarch and Founding Bishop of the Apostolic Catholic Church, as an Individual of dignity and respect, and a law-abiding Filipino citizen protected by the Constitution of the Republic of the Philippines.

Upon deep soul-searching and much prayer, with advises from religious and legal personalities, with due respect to whatever advise and reaction of the Execom of the NCCP, I am definitely filing a LIBEL case against Archbishop Tobias and Fr. Lara. I suppose that this is the right time and opportunity to put a Stop, once and for all, to the Bigotry and Lordship of such people.

This year's 2008 Christian Unity Week Opening Celebration, February 2-9, between CBCP and NCCP, whose theme: "Pray without ceasing," And Sub-theme: "That we may be One," in the Metropolitan Church in Taft Avenue, Archbishop Tobias, in his speech, singled-out the Apostolic Catholic Church by saying, "That even we are ecumenical friends, we need to point out that we have differences, too." He cited in his story some comments and reactions of his parishioners of almost indentifying Apostolic Catholic Church to the Roman Catholic Church. Out of humility, respect and meekness, considering the sair Bishop as an ecumenical friend, I kept silent and quiet. We even had picture takings with him. The Circular 2008-05 is an agonizing surprise. Enclosed is a true copy of the circular and other pictures to counteract such allegations.

The Apostolic Catholic Church (ACC), being a full member church of the NCCP since 1997 would like to seek help and support of the Council to straigthen up this false blunder. The said circular undermines the long process of the Council before accepting any church to be a full member, just to make sure that the applicant church is "Not a Cult." Likewise, the said circular belittles the efforts of his predecessor, His Grace, Deogracias Yniguez, DD of Diocese of Caloocan, former CBCP Chairman on Ecumenical Affairs, the CPCB's Ecumenical Affair Office and the Pope Benedict xvi appeal for Interfaith in the United Nations just recently.

Again, I vehemently abhor and deny Archbishop Antonio Tobias' libelous accusations. As a matter of fact, WE claim and declare that:

1. the Apostolic Catholic Church (ACC) is NOT a CULT; the ACC is a CHURCH of good name and best refutation,

2. the Apostolic Catholic Church is NOT FOUNDED by Maria Virginia Leonzon, the Mother of the Patriarch. She is made an Honorary Foundress.

Please do not DISGRACE our Blessed Mother. The Patriarch Dr +John Florentine Teruel, PP, is the FOUNDING BISHOP and nobody else,

3. the Apostolic Catholic Church has NEVER and WILL NEVER let its faithful and Clergies to go around to solicit funds,

4. the Apostolic Catholic Church is OPEN and TRANSPARENT that ACC is NOT A ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. ACC even CLAIMS

and PROFESSES with PRIDE that ACC is a SCHISMATIC CHURCH from the Roman Catholic Church. ACC is AUTO-CEPHALIC CHURCH.

DOES IT MAKE IT A CULT OR A LESSER CHURCH, IF ONE SEPARATES FROM THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH? I SAY NO!!!


5. the Apostolic Catholic Church's some Dogmatic Truths and Articles of Faith are based on/from the Nicene Creed and other Ecumenical Synods :

"NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT TO CHANGE, TO INTERFERE AND TO QUESTION THEM." Likewise, in the ACC's particular beliefs on

"MAHAL NA INGKONG" as God, the Holy Spirit and making "INA POON BATO" as the Patronness of the ACC,

6. the Apostolic Catholic Church's number of years and types of training and/or formation, studies and ordinations, consecrations, mandates and commissions

are based on the need of the ACC and on wisdom of the church's heirarchy. Why make a BIG FUZZ on the system and mind of Archbishop Tobias?

7. the Apostolic Catholic Church neither denounces the whole Roman Catholic Church nor the CBCP as Ecclesiastical bodies. But rather, the Apostolic

Catholic Church will never participate in any Ecumenical gatherings when the very persons of Archbishop Antonio Tobias and Fr. Jaime Z. Cruz are present.

8. the Apostolic Catholic Church rightly asks for "PUBLIC APOLOGY" from Archbishop Tobias and Fr. Jaime Z. Lara and correct its accusations against

the Apostolic Catholic Church and its Patriarch and Founding Bishop, Dr + John Florentine Teruel, PP.

Thank you very much. Hoping for the coherent and positive support of the council for its member churches, on matters of Truine Faith and Ecumenical endeavor.



PRO DEO, ECCLESIA ET GREGE,



DR. + JOHN FLORENTINE TERUEL, PP
Patriarch and Founding Bishop
Apostolic Catholic Church

Link http://acc-ingkong.com/content/view/79/1/


Update as of 25 January 2013

[Photo: His Holiness, Patriarch, Dr. +John Florentine Teruel P.P.,PhD. while having conversation with Roman Catholic Bishop Antonio Tobias (Diocese of Novaliches)
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Following is Monsignor Juan Arnaldo's comment from his FB account.
NOTE: AMP. If you remember my dear brothers & sisters, wayback year 2008, the above RC Bishop Tobias had FALSELY ACCUSED the APOSTOLIC CATHOLIC CHURCH (ACC) as 'CULT' and not a 'VALID' Catholic Church due to wrong information he received.

But the TRUTH shall always PREVAIL...
Thru the SPIRIT of TRUTH, the HOLY SPIRIT our BELOVED INGKONG, the said RC Bishop Tobias was ENLIGHTENED by His Holiness, our dear Patriarch and immediately Bishop Tobias gave an APOLOGY to the CHURCH (ACC) and to our Beloved Patriarch, His Holiness +Dr. John Florentine Teruel because of his wrong accusation about the APOSTOLIC CATHOLIC CHURCH.
He said that APOSTOLIC CATHOLIC CHURCH is a true and valid CHURCH which must gain EQUAL RESPECT same with other Christian Churches in the Philippines and recognizing the CHURCH as member of NATIONAL COUNCIL OF CHURCHES IN THE PHILIPPINES.
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Photo: (At center) His Holiness, Patriarch Dr+ John Florentine Teruel P.P.,PhD. (Patriarch & Founding Bishop of Apostolic Catholic Church) 
(left) His Eminence, Archbishop Deogracias Iñiguez,D.D (Catholic Bishop Conceference of the Philippines -EPCPA Chairman), and (right)Bishop Dr. Elias Soria (President, Asian Clergy Leadership Conference)

End of Update

Pastoral Letter Concerning the Apostolic Catholic Church

Roman Catholic Bishop of NovalichesThe Apostolic Catholic Church Circular 2008-05

To: All Parish Priest and Principals of All Diocesan and Congregational Schools in the Diocese of Novaliches

Our office has received several queries about the Apostolic Catholic Church. Parish Priests have complained that their priests go around our parishes soliciting funds sowing confusion to our Catholic Faithful, with their claim that the Apostolic Catholic Church is the same as the Roman Catholic Church. More often than not their priests call themselves as Bishops or Monsignors or simply Fathers after a little training. Usually, they appear well groomed in spotless white and thus seem more priestly than some of our Catholic priests. They also have sisters in long white robes.A fundamental principle in the work of ecumenism is to point out not only what is the same among the churches but also to accept honestly, even if sadly, that each is different from the other.As your Bishop, I want to inform all Catholics that the Apostolic Catholic Church is a cult founded by the mother of its present Patriarch, John Florentine L. Teruel. The cult deceivingly resembles the Roman Catholic Church because they have some vestiges of the true faith, like worship of the Triune God: Father, Son and the Holy Spirit and devotion to our blessed Mother Mary under the title Ina ng Poong Bato. They recite the Rosary and make novenas. Also in a very particular way, they call God the Holy Spirit Ingkong. However, since the Apostolic Catholic Church does not accept the supremacy of the Pope of Rome but recognizes only Patriarch Teruel, the Apostolic Catholic Church thus is Schismatic Church. Its members therefore have ceased to be Roman Catholics. The Apostolic Catholic Church is thus, not the same as but is very different from the Roman Catholic Church we were all baptized into.This circular is to be read in all Sunday, including Anticipated Masses of April and May 2008.

Given in the Chancery in Fairview, Quezon City, this 1st day of April in the Year of our Lord, 2008.

Most Rev. Antonio R. Tobias, DDBishop

Attested by:Rev. Fr. Jaime S. LaraChancellor
Link:http://catholicphilippines.blogspot.com/2008/06/pastoral-letter-concerning-apostolic.html

Monday, June 9, 2008

MYSTERY OF HIS WILL

In the beginning, the Covenant of Yahweh is between Him and the children of Jacob excluding all other nations but when the Lord Jesus came, He commanded His 12 disciples to go and seek the lost children of Israel, and later on he chose Saul of Tarsus who also called Paul to become the Apostle to the Gentile nations; thus the Good News of Salvation also reached the non-Israelites. And this is what Saint Paul is saying as one of the hidden mystery of the Plan of God that by the Gospel those who are not circumsized in flesh and is no part of any Covenant with God and the Patriarchs will become adopted children and co-heirs in the Kingdom. That all gentiles who will believe the Gospel and have faith in the Lord, will be baptized and received as well all the promises of God spoken through the prophets and by His son, Jesus Christ: ”to re−establish all things in Christ, that are in heaven and on earth, in him.” But there is more to this mystery, the union of the gentiles and the children of Jacob is one and the union of those in heaven and that of earth is another.

“To us God hath revealed them by his Spirit”
I Corinthians 2: 7-11


“But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, a wisdom which is hidden, which God ordained before the world, unto our glory: Which none of the princes of this world knew. For if they had known it, they would never have crucified the Lord of glory. But, as it is written: That eye hath not seen, nor ear heard: neither hath it entered into the heart of man, what things God hath prepared for them that love him. But to us God hath revealed them by his Spirit. For the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. For what man knoweth the things of a man, but the spirit of a man that is in him? So the things also that are of God, no man knoweth, but the Spirit of God.”



“All things in Christ, that are in heaven and on earth”
Ephesians 1:7-10


“In whom we have redemption through his blood, the remission of sins, according to the riches of his grace, which hath super abounded in us, in all wisdom and prudence, That he might make known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure, which he hath purposed in him, In the dispensation of the fullness of times, to re−establish all things in Christ, that are in heaven and on earth, in him.”


“The Mystery is revealed”
Ephesians 3:1-6


“For this cause, I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ, for you Gentiles: If yet you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me towards you: How that, according to revelation, the mystery has been made known to me, as I have written above in a few words: As you reading, may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ, which in other generations was not known to the sons of men, as it is now revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit: That the Gentiles should be fellow heirs and of the same body: and copartners of his promise in Christ Jesus, by the gospel.”

“May be made to known…through the church”
Ephesians 3:9-10

“And to enlighten all men, that they may see what is the dispensation of the mystery which hath been hidden from eternity in God who created all things: That the manifold wisdom of God may be made known to the principalities and powers in heavenly places through the church, According to the eternal purpose which he made in Christ Jesus our Lord: In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.”

The Spirit of God, Beloved Ingkong reveals to us the “Mystery of His Will” that in the fullness of times, these last days, He will gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth. And by His works and words we understood that the Holy Sealing and the enthronement of the spirit of an Angel or of the Christian Saint to us is the fulfillment of the prophecies of the Prophets: Isaiah(32:15-18;44:3;), Ezekiel(11:19;36:26-27), Joel(2:28-29), John the Baptist (John 1:23-24;Luke 3:16;Mark 1:6-8;Matthew 3:11-14). It is through the Holy Sealing that all that are in heaven are united to us who are on earth to become one in Jesus Christ as the Scripture says:

“But you are come to mount Sion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to the company of many thousands of angels, and to the church of the firstborn who are written in the heavens, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of the just made perfect, and to Jesus the mediator of the new testament, and to the sprinkling of blood which speaketh better than that of Abel.” (Hebrew 12:22-24 )

And this Mystery will be fulfilled when the Seventh Angel of the Apocalypse sounded his trumpet.


THE WOMAN CLOTHED WITH THE SUN, THE SEVENTH ANGEL AND THE MYSTERY OF GOD

“The Seventh Angel and the Mystery of God”
Apocalypse 10:5-7

“And the angel whom I saw standing upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven. And he swore by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven and the things which are therein, and the earth and the things which are in it, and the sea and the things which are therein: That time shall be no longer. But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound the trumpet, the mystery of God shall be finished, as he hath declared by his servants the prophets.”


“The Seventh Angel sounded the trumpet… A Woman clothed with the sun”
Apocalypse 11: 15-19; 12:1


And the seventh angel sounded the trumpet: and there were great voices in heaven, saying: The kingdom of this world is become our Lord's and his Christ's, and he shall reign for ever and ever. Amen. And the four and twenty ancients who sit on their seats in the sight of God, fell on their faces and adored God, saying: We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, who art and who wast and who art to come: because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and thou hast reigned. And the nations were angry: and thy wrath is come. And the time of the dead, that they should be judged and that thou shouldest render reward to thy servants the prophets and the saints, and to them that fear thy name, little and great: and shouldest destroy them who have corrupted the earth. And the temple of God was opened in heaven: and the ark of his testament was seen in his temple. And there were lightnings and voices and an earthquake and great hail…”

“And a great sign appeared in heaven: A woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.” (Apocalypse 12:1)

The Apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary, mother of our Lord Jesus Christ in Fatima Portugal is the great sign ever appeared in heaven in the 20th century, unanimously, she was regarded as the Woman Clothed with the sun described as follows:

The Apparition and Messages of the Virgin Mary of Fatima 1917 AD




Beginning on May 13, 1917, the Mother of God appeared six times to Jacinta (age 7), Francisco (age 9) and Lucia (age 10) in Fatima, Portugal. The Blessed Virgin told the children to pray the Rosary every day; she showed them a vision of Hell; and she made prophecies about World War II and the expansion of Communism (“the errors of Russia”), among other things.

The Vision of Hell shown by Our Lady of Fatima to the children: “As the Lady spoke the last words, she opened Her hands once more, as She had done the two previous months. The rays [of light] appeared to penetrate the earth, and we saw, as it were, a vast sea of fire. Plunged in this fire, we saw the demons and the souls [of the damned]. The latter were like transparent burning embers, all blackened or burnished bronze, having human forms. They were floating about in that conflagration, now raised into the air by the flames which issued from within themselves, together with great clouds of smoke. Now they fell back on every side like sparks in huge fires, without weight or equilibrium, amid shrieks and groans of pain and despair, which horrified us and made us tremble with fright (it must have been this sight which caused me to cry out, as people say they heard me). The repellent likeness to frightful and unknown animals, black and transparent like burning coals. That vision only lasted for a moment, thanks to our good Heavenly Mother, Who at the first apparition had promised to take us to Heaven. Without that, I think that we would have died of terror and fear.”


“You see Hell, where the souls of poor sinners go. To save them God wishes to establish in the world the devotion to my Immaculate Heart,” Our Lady said.

On July 13, 1917, Our Lady also told the children that on Oct. 13, 1917 she would work a miracle that all would have to believe: “Lucia said, ‘I wish to ask you to tell us who you are, and to perform a miracle so that everyone will believe that you have appeared to us!’ ‘Continue to come here every month,’ answered the Lady. ‘In October I will tell you who I am and what I wish, and will perform a miracle that everyone will have to believe.’” (Our Lady of Fatima, July 13, 1917)

Since the children had announced months in advance of Oct. 13 that the Lady would work a miracle, 70,000 to 100,000 people gathered at Fatima on Oct. 13 to see the miracle that was predicted to take place. There were also many nonbelievers who came to scoff when the predicted miracle didn’t occur. However, as even the secular press confirmed, the Miracle of the Sun – as it’s now known – did occur, just as it was predicted by the children and by Our Lady of Fatima. It stunned the gathered multitude, converted hardened unbelievers, including atheists and Freemasons, and confirmed thousands in the Catholic Faith.


Above: two pictures of the stunned crowd at Fatima on Oct. 13, 1917 witnessing the predicted miracle by Our Lady of Fatima

What was the Miracle of the Sun that so stunned and converted the enraptured audience of 70,000-plus at Fatima on Oct. 13, 1917?

“The sun stood forth in the clear zenith like a great silver disk which, though bright as any sun they had ever seen, they could look straight at without blinking, and with a unique and delightful satisfaction. This lasted but a moment. While they gazed, the huge ball began to ‘dance’ – that was the word all the beholders applied to it. Now it was whirling rapidly like a gigantic fire-wheel. After doing this for some time, it stopped. Then it rotated again, with dizzy, sickening speed. Finally there appeared on the rim a border of crimson, which flung across the sky, as from a hellish vortex, bloodred streamers of flame, reflecting to the earth, to the trees and shrubs, to the upturned faces and the clothes all sorts of brilliant colors in succession: green, red, orange, blue, violet, the whole spectrum in fact. Madly gyrating in this manner three times, the fiery orb seemed to tremble, to shudder, and then to plunge precipitately, in a mighty zigzag, toward the crowd. “A fearful cry broke from the lips of thousands of terrified persons as they fell upon their knees, thinking the end of the world had come. Some said that the air became warmer at that instant; they would not have been surprised if everything about them had burst into flames, enveloping and consuming them.”

“All over Portugal, in fact, the anti-clerical press was compelled to bear witness of the same sort. There was general agreement on the essentials. As Dr. Domingos Pinto Coelho wrote in O Ordem, ‘The sun, sometimes surrounded with crimson flames, at other times aureoled with yellow and red, at still other times seemed to revolve with a very rapid movement of rotation, still again seeming to detach itself from the sky, to approach the earth…’”

During the miracle the sun was seen to be speeding toward the earth and the people thought the end of the world had come. The significance should be obvious: Fatima was an apocalyptic sign; it was a sign that the end was near, that the events which would precede the culmination of the world and the Second Coming of Jesus Christ were to begin. Men must amend their lives before the end of the world really came.

Based on some of these considerations, many have concluded that Our Lady of Fatima is the woman clothed with the sun described in chapter 12:1 of the Apocalypse:



“And a great sign appeared in heaven: A woman clothed with the sun, and the moon
under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.” (Apocalypse 12:1)

The Fatima seers also reported that Our Lady was made all of light – she was more brilliant than the sun. The evidence is very strong that Our Lady of Fatima was the woman clothed with the sun prophesied in the Apocalypse, chapter 12.

IMPORTANT NOTES
THE MYSTERY OF GOD WILL BE ACCOMPLISHED
The apparition and the miracle of the Virgin Mary in Fatima is the fulfillment of the prophecies in Apocalypse 11: 15-19 – 12:1. The seventh angel has already sounded his trumpet and that signals the opening of the temple of God in heaven and reveals His Ark of the Covenant|Testament following this is the great sign appeared in heaven, a Woman clothed with the sun.

It follows that the Mystery of God, His plan will be accomplished very soon. At the center of God’s Plan to save and sanctify His people in the last days is the Blessed Mother with the Holy Spirit. The spirit of the Ark of the Covenant which was seen in heaven will manifest in the flesh in the person of Saint Maria Virginia, as the Throne of Mercy in the last days being the fulfillment of the words of the Prophet Isaiah 16:5; before the great second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.


It was also in 1917 when another sign appeared following the woman;

“And there was seen another sign in heaven. And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns and on his heads seven diadems.” This is the Red Dragon of Communism and Atheism."

The Mystery of God will be finished

It was on April 3, 1969 when the VATICAN replaced the Traditional Latin Mass in the Vatican II churches with its own creation, the New Mass or Novus Ordo. The Novus Ordo Mass, as Cardinals Ottaviani, Bacci and other theologians wrote in their letter to Paul VI is “The Novus Ordo [the New Order of Mass] represents, both as a whole and in its details, a striking departure from the Catholic theology of the Mass as it was formulated in Session 22 of the Council of Trent.”

It was also on the same year when the Holy Spirit appeared to Brother Florentine in 1969, Beloved INGKONG appeared to him, few years after the Vatican II – the fullness of times [the fulfilment of the third secret of Fatima,and La Salette]- when the church of Rome started to lose her holy faith and the sheeps are scattered for the wolves and serpents freely roam inside the tabernacle – bishops againts bishops; cardinals against cardinals; the holy sacrifice of the mass is defiled; seminaries are emptied; evil spirits freely roams the world. This is the fullness of times, the signal when the mystery of God will be fulfilled.

The sounding of the trumpet of the seventh angels signals that “the mystery of God hidden in all the ages will be finished, in the fullnes of times” and that is “To re−establish all things in Christ, that are in heaven and on earth, in him.”

Note: See also the blogs Why Mahal na INGKONG started His ministry in 1968-69, the significance of His manifestation to Brother Florentine and the Confession of the Devils in several occasions of exorcism in Sweden