Monday, December 6, 2010

SACRIFICE VALLEY HERMOSA BATAAN PHILIPPINES

Ave Maria Purissima...

Please see Google map of Sacrifice Valley.



How to get there:

From Cubao,Caloocan, Manila you can reach Sacrifice Valley through VICTORY LINER, GENESIS, PHILIPPINE RABBIT, SAULOG TRANSIT or FIVE STAR going to OLONGAPO, IBA ZAMBALES, etc.

Bus drivers and conductors are familiar of the place, just tell them to stop and drop you to Sacrifice Valley. And usually, you're not alone in the bus there were other as well. Look out for other passengers having and praying the rosary on their hand, or check out with those in white modest attire - possibly they are Apo.

From Manila you will pass, depending on the bus, either Mc Arthur Hi-way exiting from Tabang Toll Gate or straight through San Fernando exit where you can see Robinsons and SM Pampanga.



You will pass San Fernando and reach Layak and see there the Freedom Monument, turning to the left passing Dinalupihan. Very soon you will pass Happy Valley and high way curves... you are near to Sacrifice Valley.



See below the interactive map:


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I'll post some of the pictures later...
See you there...

Forum Repost: ACC TRUE APOSTOLIC AND CATHOLIC CHURCH

Ave Maria Purissima...

I am reposting one of my posts from www.acc-ingkong.com and done some minor editing. Ingkong bless.

I think it is about time that all sealed servants who knows some bit of Church History and Apologetics come to fore and defend our holy faith. We are not meant to be ready and able punching bag, each blow we accept without a word weakens, not the church, but the faithful. No amount of words can disgrace the Church of the Holy Spirit, but we must admit brothers, we have brethren whose knowledge and faith are but a newly planted seed in their soul- the strong must defend the weak.

I am tasked by St.Almiro of Alexandria, guided by his wisdom, to discuss what makes our church, Apostolic Catholic Church, a TRUE AND a VALID CHURCH!

INTRODUCTION:CULT?

When we claim that we are a Church, we deny that we are a cult or sect that fools people around.

During the early years of our kaganapan, wayback early 70s, no matter how we defend no body will believe us that we were not a cult. A handful of common people, braving the steep and rocky soils of the mountain of Hermosa, following Mamang Viring, listening to Her while claiming thru faith that it was not her who speaks but the Third Person of the Holy Trinity who asked to be called INGKONG.

She was obeyed and loved with people whose educational background is not much, fanatic and without any formal theological nor catechetical learning, except that they know they are sinners needing forgiveness and a change of heart. That was wayback early 70s, the time when the seed of faith about the public ministry of the Holy Spirit was in its infancy stage.

During the first twenty years (1970-1990) or so we were tirelessly asked of Mahal na INGKONG to recieve the Holy Sacraments from the Roman Catholic Priests, He asked us to attend daily masses, recieve holy communion, among other sacraments. As far as I remember, priest coming from the Diocese of Balanga Bataan usually came to say holy mass in Sacrifice Valley. Time came when the Roman Catholic Bishop asked Mamang Viring to stop the ganapan of the Santo Entiero, but since it was not what Beloved INGKONG wills, she naturally refuse and the APO as well.

Another was, the Bishop asked Mamang Viring to surrender or donate the land to the Diocese so it can manage the activities, again this is not what Mahal na Ingkong wills. It aggravates to the point that the regular holy mass was suspended, and for allegation of disturbing peace and fooling people, Mamang Viring was jailed along with others, if you watched the movie INGKONG Alpha and Omega, somehow you will have idea on the early years of our kaganapan.

Critics, for the reason that their vision was limited in seeing Mamang Viring and does not believe in Mahal na Ingkong, said that we should not call her[him] INGKONG but rather INGKANG or IMPO; For again, its the woman they are seeing and not the Holy Spirit. Is it not the reason INGKONG will not be accepted?

This vision, to see and listen to Mahal na INGKONG, either through the lips of Mamang Viring or of the Patriarch, is a gift of supernatural faith - that only sealed-servants or tinatakan possess. I said supernatural, for the reason that it fulfills the words of our Lord Jesus Christ that the true worshipper of God will worship Him in TRUTH and in SPIRIT [John 4:24].

We do not worship nor deify Mamang nor Papang, but behind their flesh we recognize the words of him, our shepherd - Mahal na INGKONG []. We worship HIM who is sitted on the THRONE:

”Salvation to our God [Mahal na INGKONG], who sitteth upon the throne [Sta. Maria Virginia] and to the Lamb [Lord Jesus Christ].” (Apocalypse 7:10)

We are now in our past 30 years of faith in the public ministry of the Holy Spirit, Mahal na INGKONG. Mahal na INGKONG have sealed for the past 30 years more than 5 million people scattered around the globe, from children to senior citizens, from common people to professionals and influential people.

Our faith in HIM crossed the geographical barriers of mountains, seas and oceans, thanks to the sealed OFW, the mission was brought in foreign lands. To date, 2010,we have active missions in USA, Canada, Hongkong and the Middle East.

Our organization grows exponentially due to missionary activities of the members, common people and professionals alike, without formal training and education in healing and preaching, yet able to speak from their real life experience about Mahal na INGKONG.

Querubin Albert was one of those whom Mahal na INGKONG restored to life, Apo Malco or popularly known as Sergeant Melgar whose life was filmed by the actor Lito Lapid was also restored to life by MNI, and many other countless small and unbelieveable miracles which some you can find in this blogspot.

Eversince, Mahal na INGKONG already paved the way for his covenant partner, Seminarian John Florentine, to complete and fulfill what are required to establish His own Church.

If the Roman Catholic Church accepted the Kaganapan of Mahal na INGKONG, then there will be no reason for Him to erect His [own new] Church. In the same way that if the Pharasees, Scribes and High Priest of Judaism -the institution of the Mosaic Law of God the Father, perhaps Jesus Christ will not found or build His Church to the apostles. But no, the High Priest of the Church of the Father do not believed and accepted the Lord and His doctrine, and they crucified Him; because of that the glory i.e. the Holy Spirit Presence, was removed from them and was given to the [holy] nation who will serve Him.

Jesus said to them: Have you never read in the Scriptures: The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner? By the Lord this has been done; and it is wonderful in our eyes. 43 Therefore I say to you, that the kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and shall be given to a nation yielding the fruits thereof. 44 And whosoever shall fall on this stone, shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it shall grind him to powder. Matthew 21:43

The Roman Catholic Church never accepted Mahal na INGKONG and even labelled the organization He founded as CULT and Heretical. A pastoral letter was even effected to prevent and deny the sealed servant to receive holy communion. For what sin did we commit against the LORD or against the CHURCH that made us deserve denial of the sacred body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ?

Aleluya to our Mahal na INGKONG, the seminarian Apo Juan Florentino, through His guidance finished his study and was validly ordained priest and was later consecrated as bishop, and again later in the year 1991 was elevated to the rank of Patriarch.

The requirements to establish a full pledged Church of Mahal na INGKONG is complete.

And in the year 1992, INGKONG granted the prayers of the tinatakan, HE founded His
ONE and ONLY Church through his holiness and grace [Bishop] Patriarch John Florentine Teruel.

Several men and women entered to the religious community of the Order of the Missionary of the Holy Spirit (OMHS) with all the blessing and recognition of our Beloved Foundress, St. Maria Virginia Leonzon. The only church that Mamang Viring knows until her dormitio on May 2005. No other church that profess faith to Mahal na INGKONG is recognized by Mama Viring but the Apostolic Catholic Church.

The Plan of Mahal na INGKONg why Apo Juan was not ordained priest in the Roman Catholic may not be known to many, but somehow I was given the grace to glimpse to His wisdom. The year 1968 and 1969 were two breakpoints in the Western Roman Catholicism, these were few years after the controversial Vatican II. These years were the climax of the events prophesied in Fatima, in the third secret.

The apparition of the Blessed Mother in Fatima 1917 is the great sign in heaven:

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 Fatima was the sign that the seventh angel of the Apocalypse has blown his trumpet and that the Mystery of the Plan of God will be accomplished.

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. Apocalypse 10:5-7

There were three secrets of Fatima, the two were revealed while the third part was sealed to be opened on 1960 or upon the death of Sister Lucia- one of the visionaries. The Vatican Council was called in the 60s, this was the time that the masonic and communist infiltrators have reached the summit of the church, thus happened Bishops against Bishops, Cardinals against Cardinals...

In the year 1968 a new rite of ordination and consecration was released by the Vatican while the Novus Ordo Mass was released and took effect by the year 1969. Within this period, Mahal na INGKONG asked Brother Florentine for help as you can read its story in this website. Why this time? Prophet Daniel prophesize of the time when the daily oblation will be stopped. God cannot just let His people to starve for the heavenly manna.

The New Rite of Ordination and Consecration of Presbyter and Bishop of the Vatican II is deficient and deviates from the age old and eternally sanctioned rites of the Fathers of the previous councils and popes. Thus, the new rite of ordination and consecration of the Roman Catholics of the Vatican II does no longer confer true priesthood and true office of bishop. Consequently, the grace and authority required to offer true sacrifice of the mass, the daily oblation or offering was also affected, including the propitiary aspect for the souls in purgatory.

The Novus Ordo Mass was also a deviation from the last vestige of orthodoxy of the western Roman Catholicism, it replaced the Tridentine Mass, the mass of the holy fathers. Abominations, disrespect and many other innovations and modernisation with almost total disregard of sacred tradition were witnessed in the churches of the Roman Rite Catholics. These rites caused many to turn their back from them and seek refuge to the Easten Orthodox Catholicism, where sacred tradition and faith of the holy fathers were treasured and kept. And unfortunately for others, apostastized and converted to non Christian, Non Catholic religions.

If, seminarian Florentine still pursue his ordination and consecration to the Roman Catholics, what grace,power and authority proper for a true clergy will he ever possess? None anymore, and besides he will not be accepted to the Roman Church, there are several bishops who knew the activities of his mother, and these learned Bishops were all against to the doctrine of Mahal na INGKONG - even until these very days.

To cut the story short, all new priests and bishops who were ordained and consecrated using the new ordination and consecration rite of the vatican II does not recieved thesame grace, power and authority of those clergies ordained and consecrated before the Vatican II using the old sacred rite. This does not affected our very own Patriarch John Florentine.

Since, our founding bishop, Patriarch John Florentine was not affected of this rites, his consecration was valid and that he recieved properly the grace, power and authority accorded to a bishop.

Now, we have the courage and the nerve to speak and claim with pride that WE ARE NOT A CULT

This post is related to:

Why Mahal na Ingkong started His Ministry in the 1960s

Pastoral Letter Concerning the Apostolic Catholic Church

Response of Patriarch John Florentine to the Circular

My reflection concerning the Circular

Mystery of His Will

Legitimate Church of Beloved Ingkong

Mga Samahang Nabuo na Hiwalay sa Simbahan ng Mahal na Ingkong - ACC

Sunday, December 5, 2010

MODESTY FROM THE WORDS OF ST FR PIO

Comportment at Holy Mass and Afterwards

A Letter from St. Padre Pio to Annita Rodote
Pietrelcina, July 25, 1915

From Volume III of Padre Pio's Letters, "Correspondence with his Spiritual Daughters (1915-1923)"

1st edition (English version), Fr. Alessio Parente, O.F.M. Cap., Editor; Edizioni Padre Pio da Pietrelcina,
Our Lady of Grace Capuchin Friary, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy, 1994, Translated by Geraldine Nolan, pp. 88-92.

Fr. Francesco D. Colacelli, representing the above Friary and publisher, has generously given written permission
". . . to Frank M. Rega to use on his website the citation indicated above."


Beloved daughter of Jesus,

May Jesus and our Mother always smile on your soul, obtaining for it, from Her most holy Son, all the heavenly charisms!

I am writing to you for two reasons: to answer some more questions from your last letter, and to wish you a very happy names-day in the most sweet Jesus, full of all the most special heavenly graces. Oh! If Jesus granted my prayers for you or, better still, if only my prayers were worthy of being granted by Jesus! However, I increase them a hundredfold for your consolation and salvation, begging Jesus to grant them, not for me but through the heart of his paternal goodness and infinite mercy.

In order to avoid irreverence and imperfections in the house of God, in church - which the divine Master calls the house of prayer - I exhort you in the Lord to practice the following.

Enter the church in silence and with great respect, considering yourself unworthy to appear before the Lord's Majesty. Amongst other pious considerations, remember that our soul is the temple of God and, as such, we must keep it pure and spotless before God and his angels. Let us blush for having given access to the devil and his snares many times (with his enticements to the world, his pomp, his calling to the flesh) by not being able to keep our hearts pure and our bodies chaste; for having allowed our enemies to insinuate themselves into our hearts, thus desecrating the temple of God which we became through holy Baptism.

Then take holy water and make the sign of the cross carefully and slowly.

As soon as you are before God in the Blessed Sacrament, devoutly genuflect. Once you have found your place, kneel down and render the tribute of your presence and devotion to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. Confide all your needs to him along with those of others. Speak to him with filial abandonment, give free rein to your heart and give him complete freedom to work in you as he thinks best.

When assisting at Holy Mass and the sacred functions, be very composed when standing up, kneeling down, and sitting, and carry out every religious act with the greatest devotion. Be modest in your glances; don't turn your head here and there to see who enters and leaves. Don't laugh, out of reverence for this holy place and also out of respect for those who are near you. Try not to speak to anybody, except when charity or strict necessity requests this.

If you pray with others, say the words of the prayer distinctly, observe the pauses well and never hurry.

In short, behave in such a way that all present are edified by it and, through you, are urged to glorify and love the heavenly Father.

On leaving the church, you should be recollected and calm. Firstly take your leave of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament; ask his forgiveness for the shortcomings committed in his divine presence and do not leave him without asking for and having received his paternal blessing.

Once you are outside the church, be as every follower of the Nazarene should be. Above all, be extremely modest in everything, as this is the virtue which, more than any other, reveals the affections of the heart. Nothing represents an object more faithfully or clearly than a mirror. In the same way, nothing more widely represents the good or bad qualities of a soul than the greater or lesser regulation of the exterior, as when one appears more or less modest. You must be modest in speech, modest in laughter, modest in your bearing, modest in walking. All this must be practiced, not out of vanity in order to display one's self, nor out of hypocrisy in order to appear to be good to the eyes of others, but rather, for the internal virtue of modesty, which regulates the external workings of the body.

Therefore, be humble of heart, circumspect in words, prudent in your resolutions. Always be sparing in your speech, assiduous in good reading, attentive in your work, modest in your conversation. Don't be disgusting to anybody but be benevolent towards all and respectful towards your elders. May any sinister glance be far from you, may no daring word escape your lips, may you never carry out any immodest or somewhat free action; never a rather free action or a petulant tone of voice.

In short let your whole exterior be a vivid image of the composure of your soul.

Always keep the modesty of the divine Master before your eyes, as an example; this Master who, according to the words of the Apostle to the Corinthians, placing the modesty of Jesus Christ on an equal footing with meekness, which was his one particular virtue and almost his characteristic: "Now I Paul myself beseech you, by the mildness and modesty of Christ" [Douay-Rheims, 2 Cor. 10:1], and according to such a perfect model reform all your external operations, which should be faithful reflections revealing the affections of your interior.

Never forget this divine model, Annita. Try to see a certain lovable majesty in his presence, a certain pleasant authority in his manner of speaking, a certain pleasant dignity in walking, in contemplating, speaking, conversing; a certain sweet serenity of face. Imagine that extremely composed and sweet expression with which he drew the crowds, making them leave cities and castles, leading them to the mountains, the forests, to the solitude and deserted beaches of the sea, totally forgetting food, drink and their domestic duties.

Thus let us try to imitate, as far as we possibly can, such modest and dignified actions. And let us do our utmost to be, as far as possible, similar to him on this earth, in order that we might be more perfect and more similar to him for the whole of eternity in the heavenly Jerusalem.

I end here as I am unable to continue, recommending that you never forget me before Jesus, especially during these days of extreme affliction for me. I expect the same charity from the excellent Francesca to whom you will have the kindness to give, in my name, assurances of my extreme interest in seeing her grow always more in divine love. I hope she will do me the charity of making a novena of Communions for my intentions.

Don't worry if you are unable to answer my letter for the moment. I know everything so don't worry.

I take my leave of you in the holy kiss of the Lord. I am always your servant.

Fra Pio, Capuchin

Repost from http://www.sanpadrepio.com/PadrePioLetter.htm

CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH ON MODESTY

Catechism of the Catholic Church

2521. Purity requires modesty, an integral part of temperance. Modesty protects the intimate center of the person. It means refusing to unveil what should remain hidden. It is ordered to chastity to whose sensitivity it bears witness. It guides how one looks at others and behaves toward them in conformity with the dignity of persons and their solidarity.

2522. Modesty protects the mystery of persons and their love. It encourages patience and moderation in loving relationships; it requires that the conditions for the definitive giving and commitment of man and woman to one another be fulfilled. Modesty is decency. It inspires ones choice of clothing. It keeps silence or reserve where there is evident risk of unhealthy curiosity. It is descreet. (italics CM)

2523. There is a modesty of the feelings as well as of the body.... Modesty inspires a way of life which makes it possible to resist the allurements of fashion and the pressures of prevailing ideologies.
On reverence:

2691. The Church, the house of God, is... the privileged place for adoration of the real presence of Christ in the Blessed Sacrament.

Repost from http://www.catholicmodesty.com/catechismmodesty.html

CATHOLIC CHRISTIAN MODESTY AS THE CHURCH SAYS

Standards of Modesty in Dress
Imprimatur dated Sept. 24, 1956

"A dress cannot be called decent which is cut deeper than two fingers breadth under the pit of the throat; which does not cover the arms at least to the elbows; and scarcely reaches a bit beyond the knees. Furthermore, dresses of transparent materials are improper." The Cardinal Vicar of Pius XII


The good of our soul is more important than that of our body; and we have to prefer the spiritual welfare of our neighbor to our bodily comforts. If a certain kind of dress constitutes a grave and proximate occasion of sin, and endangers the salvation of your soul and others, it is your duty to give it up. O Christian mothers, if you knew what a future of anxieties and perils, of ill-guarded shame you prepare for your sons and daughters, imprudently getting them accustomed to live scantily dressed and making them lose the sense of modesty, you would be ashamed of yourselves and you would dread the harm you are making of yourselves, the harm which you are causing these children, whom Heaven has entrusted to you to be brought up as Christians."
Pius XII to Catholic Young Women's Groups of Italy
THIS LEAFLET DISTRIBUTED BY: THE LEAGUE FOR MODESTY IN DRESS, NY


Pope Benedict XV has taught very clearly about modesty in an encyclical letter (Sacra Propediem, 1921), commemorating the 7th centenary of the founding of the Franciscan Third Order.


"One can not sufficiently deplore the blindness of so many women of every age and station. Made foolish by a desire to please, they do not see to what degree the indecency of their clothing shocks every honest man and offends God. Most of them would formerly have blushed for such apparel as for a grave fault against Christian modesty. Now it does not suffice to exhibit themselves on public thoroughfares; they do not fear to cross the threshold of churches, to assist at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, and even to bear the seducing food of shameful passions to the Eucharistic Table, where one receives the Heavenly Author of Purity."

1930 Letter of the Congregation of the Council

By virtue of the supreme apostolate which he wields over the Universal Church by Divine Will, our Most Holy Father Pope Pius XI has never ceased to inculcate, both verbally and by his writings, the words of St. Paul (1 Tim. xi,9-10), namely, "Women ... adorning themselves with modesty and sobriety ... and professing godliness with good works."

Very often, when occasion arose, the same Supreme Pontiff condemned emphatically the immodest fashion of dress adopted by Catholic women and girls -- which fashion not only offends the dignity of women and against her adornment, but conduces to the temporal ruin of the women and girls, and, what is still worse, to their eternal ruin, miserably dragging down others in their fall. It is not surprising, therefore, that all Bishops and other ordinaries, as is the duty of ministers of Christ, should in their own dioceses have unanimously opposed their depraved licentiousness and promiscuity of manners, often bearing with fortitude the derision and mockery leveled against them for this cause.

Therefore this Sacred Council, which watches over the discipline of clergy and people, while cordially commending the action of the Venerable Bishops, most emphatically exhorts them to persevere in their attitude and increase their activities insofar as their strength permits, in order that this unwholesome disease be definitely uprooted from human society.

In order to facilitate the desired effect, this Sacred Congregation, by the mandate of the Most Holy Father, has decreed as follows:

Exhortation to Those in Authority

1. The parish priest, and especially the preacher, when occasion arises, should, according to the words of the Apostle Paul (2 Tim. iv, 2), insist, argue exhort and command that feminine garb be based on modesty and womanly ornament be a defense of virtue. Let them likewise admonish parents to cause their daughters to cease wearing indecorous dress.

2. Parents, conscious of their grave obligations toward the education, especially religious and moral, to their offspring, should see to it that their daughters are solidly instructed, from earliest childhood, in Christian doctrine; and they themselves should assiduously inculcate in their souls, by word and example, love for the virtues of modesty and chastity; and since their family should follow the example of the Holy Family, they must rule in such a manner that all its members, reared within the walls of the home, should find reason and incentive to love and preserve modesty.

3. Let parents keep their daughters away from public gymnastic games and contests; but if their daughters are compelled to attend such exhibitions, let them see that they are fully and modestly dressed. Let them never permit their daughters to don immodest garb.

4. Superioresses and teachers in schools for girls must do their utmost to instill love of modesty in the hearts of maidens confided to their care and urge them to dress modestly.

5. Said Superioresses and teachers must not receive in their colleges and schools immodestly dressed girls, and should not even make an exception in the case of mothers of pupils. If, after being admitted, girls persist in dressing immodestly, such pupils should be dismissed.

6. Nuns, in compliance with the Letter dated August 23, 1928, by the Sacred Congregation of Religious, must not receive in their colleges, schools, oratories or recreation grounds, or, if once admitted, tolerate girls who are not dressed with Christian modesty; said Nuns, in addition, should do their utmost so that love for holy chastity and Christian modesty may become deeply rooted in the hearts of their pupils.

7. It is desirable that pious organizations of women be founded, which by their counsel, example and propaganda should combat the wearing of apparel unsuited to Christian modesty, and should promote purity of customs and modesty of dress.

8. In the pious associations of women those who dress immodestly should not be admitted to membership; but if, perchance, they are received, and after having been admitted, fall again into their error, they should be dismissed forthwith.

9. Maidens and women dressed immodestly are to be debarred from Holy Communion and from acting as sponsors at the Sacraments of Baptism and Confirmation; further, if the offense be extreme, they may even be forbidden to enter the church.

Donato Cardinal Sbaretti, Prefect
Congregation of the Council
Rome, January 12, 1930

The following is from Sacra Virginitas
ENCYCLICAL OF POPE PIUS XII
ON CONSECRATED VIRGINITY
March 25th, 1954

58. The educators of the young clergy would render a more valuable and useful service, if they would inculcate in youthful minds the precepts of Christian modesty, which is so important for the preservation of perfect chastity and which is truly called the prudence of chastity. For modesty foresees threatening danger, forbids us to expose ourselves to risks, demands the avoidance of those occasions which the imprudent do not shun. It does not like impure or loose talk, it shrinks from the slightest immodesty, it carefully avoids suspect familiarity with persons of the other sex, since it brings the soul to show due reverence to the body, as being a member of Christ[101] and the temple of the Holy Spirit.[102] He who possesses the treasure of Christian modesty abominates every sin of impurity and instantly flees whenever he is tempted by its seductions.

59. Modesty will moreover suggest and provide suitable words for parents and educators by which the youthful conscience will be formed in matters of chastity. "Wherefore," as We said in a recent address, "this modesty is not to be so understood as to be equivalent to a perpetual silence on this subject, nor as allowing no place for sober and cautious discussion about these matters in imparting moral instruction."[103] In modern Times New Roman however there are some teachers and educators who too frequently think it their duty to initiate innocent boys and girls into the secrets of human generation in such a way as to offend their sense of shame. But in this matter just temperance and moderation must be used, as Christian modesty demands.

Notification concerning
Men's Dress Worn By Women

By Giuseppe Cardinal Siri
Genoa,
June 12, 1960

To the Reverend Clergy,
To all Teaching sisters,
To the beloved sons of Catholic Action,
To Educators intending truly to follow Christian Doctrine.


I
The first signs of our late arriving spring indicate that there is this year a certain increase in the use of men's dress by girls and women, even family mothers. Up until 1959, in Genoa, such dress usually meant the person was a tourist, but now it seems to be a significant number of girls and women from Genoa itself who are choosing at least on pleasure trips to wear men's dress (men's trousers).
The extension of this behavior obliges us to take serious thought, and we ask those to whom this Notification is addressed to kindly lend to the problem all the attention it deserves from anyone aware of being in any way responsible before God.

We seek above all to give a balanced moral judgment upon the wearing of men's dress by women. In fact Our thoughts can only bear upon the moral question.

Firstly, when it comes to covering of the female body, the wearing of men's trousers by women cannot be said to constitute as such a grave offense against modesty since trousers certainly cover more of woman's body than do modern women's skirts.

Secondly, however, clothes to be modest need not only to cover the body but also not to cling too closely to the body. Now it is true that much feminine clothing today clings closer than do some trousers, but trousers can be made to cling closer, in fact generally they do, so the tight fit of such clothing gives us not less grounds for concern than does exposure of the body. So the immodesty of men's trousers on women is an aspect of the problem which is not to be left out of an over-all judgment upon them, even if it is not to be artificially exaggerated either.

II
However, it is a different aspect of women's wearing of men's trousers which seems to us the gravest.
The wearing of men's dress by women affects firstly the woman herself, by changing the feminine psychology proper to women; secondly it affects the woman as wife of her husband, by tending to vitiate relationships between the sexes; thirdly it affects the woman as mother of her children by harming her dignity in her children's eyes. Each of these points is to be carefully considered in turn:--

A. MALE DRESS CHANGES THE PSYCHOLOGY OF WOMAN.
In truth, the motive impelling women to wear men's dress is always that of imitating, nay, of competing with, the man who is considered stronger, less tied down, more independent. This motivation shows clearly that male dress is the visible aid to bringing about a mental attitude of being "like a man." Secondly, ever since men have been men, the clothing a person wears, demands, imposes and modifies that person's gestures, attitudes and behavior, such that from merely being worn outside, clothing comes to impose a particular frame of mind inside.

Then let us add that woman wearing man's dress always more or less indicates her reacting to her femininity as though it is inferiority when in fact it is only diversity. The perversion of her psychology is clear to be seen.

These reasons, summing up many more, are enough to warn us how wrongly women are made to think by the wearing of men's dress.


B. MALE DRESS TENDS TO VITIATE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN WOMEN AND MEN.
In truth when relationships between the two sexes unfold with the coming of age, an instinct of mutual attraction is predominant. The essential basis of this attraction is a diversity between the two sexes which is made possible only by their complementing or completing one another. If then this "diversity" becomes less obvious because one of its major external signs is eliminated and because the normal psychological structure is weakened, what results is the alteration of a fundamental factor in the relationship.

The problem goes further still. Mutual attraction between the sexes is preceded both naturally, and
in order of time, by that sense of shame which holds the rising instincts in check, imposes respect upon them, and tends to lift to a higher level of mutual esteem and healthy fear everything that those instincts would push onwards to uncontrolled acts. To change that clothing which by its diversity reveals and upholds nature's limits and defense-works, is to flatten out the distinctions and to help
pull down the vital defense-works of the sense of shame.

It is at least to hinder that sense. And when the sense of shame is hindered from putting on the brakes, then relationships between man and women sink degradingly down to pure sensuality,
devoid of all mutual respect or esteem.

Experience is there to tell us that when woman is de-feminised, then defenses are undermined and weakness increases.


C. MALE DRESS HARMS THE DIGNITY OF THE MOTHER IN HER CHILDREN'S EYES.
All children have an instinct for the sense of dignity and decorum of their mother. Analysis of the
first inner crisis of children when they awaken to life around them even before they enter upon adolescence, shows how much the sense of their mother counts. Children are as sensitive as can
be on this point. Adults have usually left all that behind them and think no more on it. But we would do well to recall to mind the severe demands that children instinctively make of their own mother,
and the deep and even terrible reactions roused in them by observation of their mother's misbehavior. Many lines of later life are here traced out -- and not for good -- in these early inner dramas of infancy and childhood.

The child may not know the definition of exposure, frivolity or infidelity, but he possesses an instinctive sixth sense to recognize them when they occur, to suffer from them, and be bitterly wounded by them in his soul.

III
Let us think seriously on the import of everything said so far, even if woman's appearing in man's dress does not immediately give rise to all the upset caused by grave immodesty.

The changing of feminine psychology does fundamental and, in the long run, irreparable damage to the family, to conjugal fidelity, to human affections and to human society. True, the effects of wearing unsuitable dress are not all to be seen within a short time. But one must think of what is being slowly and insidiously worn down, torn apart, perverted.

Is any satisfying reciprocity between husband and wife imaginable, if feminine psychology be changed? Or is any true education of children imaginable, which is so delicate in its procedure, so woven of imponderable factors in which the mother's intuition and instinct play the decisive part in those tender years? What will these women be able to give their children when they will so long have worn trousers that their self-esteem goes more by their competing with the men than by their functioning as women?

Why, we ask, ever since men have been men, or rather since they became civilized -- why have men in all times and places been irresistibly borne to make a differentiated division between the functions of the two sexes? Do we not have here strict testimony to the recognition by all mankind of a truth and a law above man?

To sum up, wherever women wear men's dress, it is to be considered a factor in the long run tearing apart human order.

IV
The logical consequence of everything presented so far is that anyone in a position of responsibility should be possessed by a SENSE of ALARM in the true and proper meaning of the word, a severe and decisive ALARM.

We address a grave warning to parish priests, to all priests in general and to confessors in particular, to members of every kind of association, to all religious, to all nuns, especially to teaching Sisters.
We invite them to become clearly conscious of the problem so that action will follow. This consciousness is what matters. It will suggest the appropriate action in due time. But let it not counsel us to give way in the face of inevitable change, as though we are confronted by a natural evolution of mankind, and so on!

Men may come and men may go, because God has left plenty of room for the to and fro of their free-will; but the substantial lines of nature and the not less substantial lines of Eternal Law have never changed, are not changing and never will change. There are bounds beyond which one may stray as far as one sees fit, but to do so ends in death; there are limits which empty philosophical fantasizing may have one mock or not take seriously, but they put together an alliance of hard facts and nature to chastise anybody who steps over them. And history has sufficiently taught, with frightening proof from the life and death of nations, that the reply to all violators of the outline of "humanity" is always, sooner or later, catastrophe.

From the dialectic of Hegel onwards, we have had dinned in our ears what are nothing but fables, and by dint of hearing them so often, many people end up by getting used to them, if only passively. But the truth of the matter is that Nature and Truth, and the Law bound up in both, go their imperturbable way, and they cut to pieces the simpletons who upon no grounds whatsoever believe in radical and far-reaching changes in the very structure of man.

The consequences of such violations are not a new outline of man, but disorders, hurtful instability of all kinds, the frightening dryness of human souls, the shattering increase in the number of human castaways, driven long since out of people's sight and mind to live out their decline in boredom, sadness and rejection. Aligned on the wrecking of the eternal norms are to be found the broken families, lives cut short before their time, hearths and homes gone cold, old people cast to one side, youngsters willfully degenerate and -- at the end of the line -- souls in despair and taking their own lives. All of which human wreckage gives witness to the fact that the "line of God" does not give way, nor does it admit of any adaption to the delirious dreams of the so-called philosophers!

V
We have said that those to whom the present Notification is addressed are invited to take serious alarm at the problem in hand. Accordingly they know what they have to say, starting with little girls on their mother's knee.

They know that without exaggerating or turning into fanatics, they will need to strictly limit how far they tolerate women dressing like men, as a general rule.

They know they must never be so weak as to let anyone believe that they turn a blind eye to a custom which is slipping downhill and undermining the moral standing of all institutions.

They, the priests, know that the line they have to take in the confessional, while not holding women dressing like men to be automatically a grave fault, must be sharp and decisive.

Everybody will kindly give thought to the need for a united line of action, reinforced on every side by the cooperation of all men of good will and all enlightened minds, so as to create a true dam to hold back the flood.

Those of you responsible for souls in whatever capacity understand how useful it is to have for allies in this defensive campaign men of the arts, the media and the crafts. The position taken by fashion design houses, their brilliant designers and the clothing industry, is of crucial importance in this whole question. Artistic sense, refinement and good taste meeting together can find suitable but dignified solution as to the dress for women to wear when they must use a motorcycle or engage in this or that exercise or work. What matters is to preserve modesty together with the eternal sense of femininity, that femininity which more than anything else all children will continue to associate with the face of their mother.

We do not deny that modern life sets problems and makes requirements unknown to our grandparents. But we state that there are values more needing to be protected than fleeting experiences, and that for anybody of intelligence there are always good sense and good taste enough to find acceptable and dignified solutions to problems as they come up.

Out of charity we are fighting against the flattening out of mankind, against the attack upon those differences on which rests the complementarity of man and woman.

When we see a woman in trousers, we should think not so much of her as of all mankind, of what it will be when women will have masculinized themselves for good. Nobody stands to gain by helping to bring about a future age of vagueness, ambiguity, imperfection and, in a word, monstrosities.
This letter of Ours is not addressed to the public, but to those responsible for souls, for education, for Catholic associations. Let them do their duty, and let them not be sentries caught asleep at their post while evil crept in.

Giuseppe Cardinal Siri
Archbishop of Genoa


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CATHOLIC CHRISTIAN MODESTY AS THE BIBLE SAYS

Relevant words from the Bible Regarding Modesty

Gal.5:22-23 "But the fruit of the Spirit is, charity, joy, peace, patience, benignity, goodness, longanimity, mildness, faith, modesty, continency, chastity."

Romans 12;1,2 "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercy of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing unto God, your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world; but be reformed in the newness of your mind, that you may prove what is the good, and the acceptable, and the perfect will of God."

1 Corinthians 3:16,17 "Know you not, that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? But if any man violate the temple of God, him shall God destroy. For the temple of God is holy, which you are."

1 Corinthians 11:10 Therefore ought the woman to have a power (covering) over her head, because of the angels. (who are present in the assemblies of the faithful)

1 Timothy 2, 9 "In like manner women also in decent apparel: adorning themselves with modesty and sobriety, not with plaited hair or gold, or pearls or costly attire."

1 Thessalonians 5:22 From all appearance of evil refrain yourselves. And may the God of peace Himself sanctify you in all things; that your whole spirit, and soul, and body, may be preserved blameless in the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Deuteronomy 22:5 "A woman shall not be clothed wih man's apparel, neither shall a man use woman's apparel: for he that doeth these things is abominable before God."

Matthew 7:13-14 "Enter ye in at the narrow gate: for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction: and many there are who go in there. How narrow is the gate and straight is the way that leads to life: and few there are that find it!"

Keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary, I am the Lord. Leviticus 19:30

ON REVERENCE AND HOLY SILENCE

The Lord is in His holy temple; let all the earth keep silent before Him. Habakuk 2:20

Let all flesh be silent at the presence of the Lord; for He has risen out of His holy habitation. Zecharias 2:13

SHOUT IT QUESTIONS - ACC-INGKONG.COM


Q1: "are the members of your congregation not really allowed to wear jeans and t-shirts? what if they are just on a nightout or a drinking session? or in a beach party perhaps?

Q2: how true is it that the Holy Spirit is actually the LOVE between Mary and Jesus as stated by the priest of the Catholic Church. therefore there cant be an Ingkong because if the holy spirit is love...then its just an emotion...not something which would enter to a body of a human being and send messages that would make thousands of fanatics believe that the New Saviour has come...

Q3: how did Mary made that "appeal" to all women to honor her attire when in fact itsnot even written on the bible?

Q4: how is wearing of women with jeans contribute to the destruction of our planet? is it not because of pollution and environment related issues?.. and not due to "improper" attire per se?

Q5: due to temptations? i dont think all men would esily get attracted to girls who wear jeans and tshirts. its the new trend of our society today. our Pope is not even against it. i mean "easily"... well im not against the rules if your group but you just seem weird uhmm...if im on a drinking session wid my friends or on a beach party do i still need to wear palda and blouse? i dont think anyone would be cm4tble wid dat.


AVE MARIA PURISSIMA...

Today, I logged in to ACC-OMHS website and scrolled over the Shout-it box at the left pane of the page. I am happy to see someone, a visitor, posting questions about our practices and rules. Beloved INGKONG bless her, she is called to discover who we really are and who we really follows.

I invite you to read my reposts on Modesty as taught by the Bible, the Church, and the Saints.