The Monastery of the Holy Eucharist is a church in Sibonga for the Marian devotees. The church is very popular among believers not only because it is considered the home of the image of the miraculous Virgin but also because the place is truly amazing and stunning. The Monastery is the place where the ‘Mga Monghe ni Maria’[Monks of Mary] live.
Below are the photos of the church. Also check out Satchmo’s gallery. He decided to tag along today.
Mama Mary
Facing the other mountain
Front view
View from the top
The church.
Awesome architecture.
The main gate
Archangels.
Angel and a carabao
Giant statue.
The most photographed area.
Please respect.
Welcome to the monastery
Church facade
Devotees in line to kiss the image
The church was jampacked.
The interior. The church is still undergoing some finishing touches.
The image of Mama Mary
Click on photo for full view.
The main altar
Mary Queen of Heaven and Earth
View from the church. Click on photo to see bigger copy.
People!
Prayer Chapel
Statue of the good Shepherd
View of the church
People take a short break to eat their lunch
Kainan na!
A reflexology area for the tired feet.
The wishing bell
Waterfalls!
Falls and carabao
Open dining area
Sisters selling lunch
Satchmo relaxing under the sun!
More of Satchmo’s photos in Simala here.
Amazing Church! It’s just beautiful!
nindot ang lugar, kung diha ko mag-meditate, morag madungog dayon sa Ginoo ang akong ampo.
hey leylan, be careful next time. theres a newbie paparazzo tailing you.. hehehe
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hehe.. nakit-an ra tika niagi bai.. bz man kag pamicture gud.
hahaha. nganong nakaila man sad ka nako bai? lol. asa diay ka nga part nagstay ana pag pic nimo? asa gani na nga part?
syempre avid reader gud ko ani imong blog.. hehehe
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nice kaau ang lugar…
nice church, nice place. i think this is the place my mum
and her friends having pilgrimage last year.
Carmen has a monk monastry too but i recon not yet
fully develop. it’s on my list to visit during my holiday.
nice photos Ley, rock on lacey…
Why man ka wala nag say nga mo-adto di-ay ka. Ni cry-cry baya si Ludy. Iya baya na wish nga mo-adto sya didto. Bad ka Leylan kuyog unta sab ko!!!!! waaaaaaaaa…….. Shaks as in mo wake-up unta early morning si Ludy just to prepare lechon paksiw nga salin sa fiesta sa Guinsay, para lunch sa Simala.
NIce pictures nohhhh….
A friend of mine swears by this place. Says ever since she went there, great things have happened. :p We visited last summer. I especially loved the place where they burned the letters.
PS:
didn’t know you were a celebrity, ley. :p
ur camera takes nice pics… of course the person behind it is not bad himself
Very nice Ley! I’ll try to find that place when I get home for the holidays. Hey, when man ta magkita kita tanan?
my family anted to visit this place. maybe one of these days we’ll have time to visit
nice pics! and the nun that is selling lunch was a classmate in college!
I don’t mean to sound dumb and stupid (considering I was born in Cebu) but how far is Simala Sibonga to Cebu City? When I come back home, this is a nice place to visit and pay homage to.
it’s around 2 hours from the city. it’s just after carcar city. you should visit the place! =)
We’ve been there Jan.8, nindot jud kaayo Ley. My first time in the south. I enjoy the trip. My eyes looking left and right. And we travel through SRP. I saw the pics you post. Way back we stopping at Carcar for the chicharon. Masarap!!!
That day we suppose to have a day trip to Bohol. Irien just wearing shorts and sleeveless. But we miss our 9am trip, so we decide to go to Simala. Hala ka!!! bawal pala magsuot ng seksing damit. My sis inlaw wearing a tight jeans, she’s given a tapis. Irien have 2, for the legs and shoulder. On our way home we keep laughing coz Irien looks like a priest w/ her shawl. Funny…
I have not been to Simala, sibunga Cebu before. I would like to go there I think, the photos are looking very nice. Do we have to wear something appropriate, I mean is a dress code when you go inside the church. I suppose we have to respect their tradition and culture. Filipino wala man libog, we ride on.
Good…
…if you want to go to SIMALA…, my advices are..
……………………..*******+++++++*******………………………
1. From your heart, this is a SACRED PLACE………
2. Know what you want to say and share to Mama Mary, Our GOD Jesus Christ……….
3.If you ask something, thats must be reasonable enough for you , your love ones and the people on earth………
4.REPENT from what you have done WHOLEHEARTEDLY and your wishes will come TRUE………..
5.REMEMBER….STRONG FAITH BRINGS MIRACLES …………+++
6. You must remember what you say and ask from GOD and keep a written prayers with you and the other one drop inside the box placed near the SACRED MAMA MARYs cubicle….and you will be AMAZED…GOD with MAMA MARY will BLESSED YOU HOLY….!!!!
7.From that time on…. BE MAN – WOMAN enough and always DO GOOD ….and follow what YOU’VE PROMISED…this is your second LIFE….
…………………………TRY THESE and YOU WONT FAIL………………………..
GOD LOVES US SO MUCH……………………………..!!!!!
hello..its a nice and sacred place…I was there and saw mama mary crying with blood…
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the pLace waS very greAt!!!
OH WOW!! photos galore!
your photos are divine!!
you have better shots than mine, i was here last saturday..
im now back in Cagayan de Oro City. CDO, this is my main home town..
anyway, i was lucky enough to find your bloggy here after googling “simala” –i used your link so my friends could have a better view of the place and the church.. cause when i went there the interior of the church was under construction, taking photos was hard.. and finding a good angle was crazy! beams of steal bars were everywhere inside the basilica.. and yes, as usual, it was jam packed! we were not able to line up with the rest because it will take us time and effort and ENERGY..
and as for my photography i had to limit it so i can be minimal and be able to blend in the crowd.. hehe was avoiding “here goes another tourist” hahaha
anyway..
if you go to my website, its almost for contacts only so u cant view my version of photography.. but ill be posting it somewhere soon..
anyway, thanks for whatever! =)
and satchmo is effing cute man!! where dya get him?
i like your blog post.. ill be back here for browsing again, a lil busy with my photo bloggie here too so hehehe
cege bai! anhi sako!
hope we meet pagbakasyo namo diha,
Pista sa Sibonga sounds great naa pa me diha.Kita-kits nalang ta sa mata…he he he joke joke joke,,,
I was see all the pictures view of Mother Mary;esp. the churh Berhen sa Simala. its sooo, Amäzing Place!wow! i wish i could also visits this place someday!i miss Cebu city,,im so far away this place;but,even thugh i know Mother Mary she could see me, and she will not leave me alone,
I love you Mother Mary!!!pls,Bless My Family my friends,and most esp.my Mom My Brother Jun,that they are already pas by.I miss them sooo, much!
The place & the view is really really amazing! I’ve been there already and its really crowded there. i wish i could visit the place again.
You can see more pictures of Simala Pilgrimage at
cebuimage.blogspot.com
The place is more nice na jud.I went there before and its been 2 yrs. na wala ko ka balik. Wen i come back to cebu balik jud ko sa simala. I always thanks for MAMA MARY for granting my wish..And now i am pregnant with a healthy baby GIRL..GOD is Good to us all the time.. We should always thank Him and Mama MARY Too..
hai..nyce pics kuya…. truelly comes from your heart jud kuya,,, i wish i will b there n simala soon… before or after i graduate college.. plssss. pray 4 me….keep it up.. godblzzz and au2x kanunay kuya…
I was there last month as I heard lots of things about the place. I went there with 2 friends and I was expecting this solemn place where once could meditate. when we arrived, it was totally the opposite of the image set on my mind. So many people and so commercialized. Totally a disappointment. Now I know better
nakatiming lang tingali ka ug novena day.
try pud visit sa monastery sa carmen. wala pa gyud taw didto…
thanks for promoting Carmen, Ley
i appreciate it…
Try to visit Odlot Bogo also so you can have an experience of the miracles of Mama mary, Nuestra Senora de los Remedios. She shed tears last june 21 and 25, 2008. many people were granted of their petitions to Mama Mary.
hey pls send me the original copy of this pic through my email ad above..thanks
aizaluckygurl@gmail.com..thanks
@ dodz, mau na sya kakang makita sa H-way?
abe nako Ilihan na sya. We’ve been there last January my first time in the Shrine.
the place was great…….
odlot is now the pilgrim place of Mama Mary in the northern part of cebu.
(barefoot)penitential candle light procession every first saturdy of the month. 10am &4.30pm pilgrim mass, 6pm procession.
pls send me picture through my email ad. thank you in advance. im from cebu but naa q cagayan de oro now occasionally nlang q mkaan ha dha.
unsa exact place anag simala? this comoing holy wek paman gud mi makaanha cebu with my family naa man amo work dri.thank you again
kinsa man nkabalo ninyo email ad sa smbhan sa simala?
happy bday mama mary!
VIVA CEBU!!!!!!
nice place! cool Blog! *salute to you*
keep it up! promote the beautiful wonders of CEBU!!!!
Bro,
Ave Maria!
Gusto unta ko mag nquire about your community as a MARIAN MONK, dugay nako gusto maka balo…. Layo man gud ang amua. Naa ra ko sa Oroquieta City, Misamis Occidental… I love a contemplative life… and to follow d way of life of Mama Mary or Marian life …. If ok pwede mag pa txt ko 09197481131.
thanx…
Mama Mary, the lady of remedies in odlot, bogo have shown so many manifestations to different pilgrims who went to odlot. september 8 on her bday she showered water to a lady praying infront of her statue. some have seen She transfered the baby Jesus from her left to the right arm. many have smelld an undetified frangrance around the place. september 20, four people have seen the baby Jesus waving his left hand to them.
nakaadto pid ko sa simala, nice ayo didto,,,
mao ra na,,,
WALA PA KO KA ADTO PERO NEXT VACATION
ive been to lindogon, simala, sibonga, cebu and its just like going to heaven, the location, the view, the lines of people, if this is the kind of life all people chooses, then there will be no wars , no crisis.
Near the entrance are seven angels, i never failed to touch them and my most revered, St. Michael the archangel.
My mobile: 09198768999
Shalom!
I have heard dat Blessed Mary has come to visit the Cathedral last 3-5, does anybody here knows if by sunday She will be back in Simala. coz me and my friends want to visit the Blessed Mary of Simala this coming sunday 10/12/2008.ples email me or
tx me tru dis number 09289017090.
thanks you.. i would be a great help.
the image that visits the parishes is not the original image in simala its just a replica. the original is always in simala.
Yes, the place and the myths inspire awe. But never is it told the story of a teacher, a resident of Simala proper, who walked all the way up to Lindogon to pray for peace for her troubled family. She went home after her pilgrimage but died a horrible death. Crossing the river through a spillway, she slipped into the shallow water but right away a rush of flood waters swallowed her before her friends could pull her up. Her dead body was seen downstream full of wounds and bruises and her face full of pain and sorrow. Her family wished she never went up to pray. Others hoped that at least some miracle was done to save her. She was a good woman, a fine teacher, a martyred wife and a loving and caring mother. What could have been the message of the monks and their virgin!
Under the the guidance of Cardinal Vidal, there seems to be a miracle boom everywhere in Cebu. The pious cardinal readily embraces these phenomena without first conducting a thorough investigation to determine whether these so called miracles are truly supernatural, natural or artificial. What’s so miraculous about a plague victimizing less than a dozen people to finally stop after a medical intervention? What’s so miraculous about a board exam taker who spent years of study and months of review to pass the exam? What’s so miraculous about a cancer patient experiencing temporary remission of his ailment? What’s so miraculous about about a statue carved out from freshly cut wood shedding its juice through the aperture in the eyes of the statue? Cardinal please, you owe the faithful the result of the investigation before everything turns out to be another Judiel.
Who said there is no investigation conducted? To say conclusively that there is none and immediately make strong condemnations beyond the proper forum is even more condemnable himself.
Simala, Carmen, Odlot, Perrelos. Looks like there is a miracle boom in Cebu. With it is the tourist and commercial boom. Miracle.
And who says there is an investigation conducted? To say there is one going when there is none mirrors your credulity and gullibility to instantly believe in what appears to be uncommon as a miracle when these are only natural phenomena. These are not matters of faith where one gives faith first before reason. For if a Catholic does not believe in these new miracles, he can still go to heaven if he believes in the basic doctrines of Catholic faith and follow God’s commandments. Otherwise, going there should be ordered as mandatory for salvation. There is no investigation. The one who should do that already crowned the miraculous statue.
To Dhodz of Oroquieta: Dont bother to ask about joining the so-called Marian monks. They popped out of the blue and then created a stir with their miracles in Simala and their mysterious objects in Perrelos. There is no history of their order and the circumstances of their founding, no known holy man as their founder, no literature on the nature of formation and their mission, no record of their canonical recognition, no active recruitment campaign to invite Cebuanos to join. Their origin is shrouded in mystery in the same manner as the origin of the image of the miraculous virgin. It looks like they want to keep everything in secret and mysterious. They want to keep to themselves their holiness and the gains of their activities. Try searching the net for the sites of classical monastic orders: Trappist, Carmelites, Augustinians, Franciscans, Benedictines, where everything is explained and where faith and holiness are the key points. God however has not given them miracles lately.
People got healed: after a visit to a faith healer after drinking the water toned by Johnny Midnight, after visit to a mananambal in Siquijor, after praying in the Judiel chapel, after a charismatic session, after a visit to Simala, after an expensive pilgrimage to Lourdes and Fatima, after doing some exotic Hindu rite, after taking a capsule containing water.
The healing either comes from God or the devil. No. In all the above, healing is done by the human mind who believes that he can be healed. Faith on anything whether from God or some evil power or pagan gods or in the power of a drug can cause healing. That’s the natural power of the mind over the body.
So, even if you pray in front of an image you bought from Taboan or in any church or in your room, you can be healed as long as you believe. But don’t be mistaken, it’s not the image that healed you. It’s your mind.
Miracles? Not after Christ turned water into wine, multiplied the loaves, raised the dead and him rising after his crucifixion.
These new miracles? Your mind.
hi!! i am a SIMALAnhun.. i live there particularly in simala.. marian monks is really nice and a sacred place, if u wanna go there its easy.. from city to simala it takes only 1 and a half hour if ur riding a public bus it takes 2 hours..
even of that a long ride but wen u can reach the marian monks shrine u can be relax and feel good because of the good ambience for relaxation.. people who are religious, pipol who loves an overlooking place and smells the fresh breeze of the air and wants to relax herself and for the meanwhile u can just confest everything about ur life to mama mary, the bad and good, the sadness and happines happen to life.. u can talk to her after all u can receive a good meSsage from her u can feel very good and cool afterall…
if u wanna come to visit just wear below the knee for girls and no sleeveless, for boys anykind!! no sexy clothes!! theres a mass every sunday and monthly mass every13th of the month and the biggest celebration is the birhtday of mama mary september 8.. every bday u can witness, theres always a miracle… if ur there u can really feel it… its really a sacred and a holy place.. if u wanna know more about the story and the first day why marian monks choose cmala to live for mama mary???? you can read the story in there story board… BTW, after u pass carcar city 15mins. u can reach cmala and 5minutes to monks shrine!!! thank you for visiting to those who can reach in our place and visit mama mary… i hope u always visit her, coz mama mary will love us to be with her always!!! if theres any question u can free to ask on my email – leahleiyanpadilla@yahoo.com.. thanksyou!!
Ms Padilla, Mother Mary is not the statue in Simala. Mother Mary is now in heaven. On earth, she is represented by many statues all over the world, all over the Philippines. Some statues are hundred years old or over. Statues made of concrete or marble do not cry or shed tears. Concrete and marble do not retain moisture. Old statues do not as well: they are made of seasoned wood which do not retain water. Your Simala statue of the virgin is a new statue made of fresh wood. The tears in her eyes are brownish, clearly the sap of the mahogany or the tree from which the statue is sculpted. When the crying was first announced, you should have asked for a scientific investigation. Swab the eyes and have the substance chemically examined to determine its chemical components.
Yes, I believe in the healing caused by the statue. If you studied enough science in college, you should know that the believing mind can heal its body naturally. This is called psychogenesis. But this is hardly a miracle. That is the reason why some sick people do get cured after seeing a faith healer, a mananambal, a manulotho. If your remember the miracle of Judiel, many people were healed because they believed. But not after the Judiel miracle was declared a hoax. In medical practice, during studies on the effectivity of a new medicine, sample patients are given capsules containing water only and are told about the healing properties of the capsule. Most of these patients get healed. This is known as the placebo effect, one other manifestation that a believing mind can naturally heal.
As to the passing of an exam, those who passed studied for many years and reviewed for months, so that their passing can hardly be said as a miracle. What would have been miraculous is when a person not having studied at all his subjects passed the exam. His answers must have come through divine intervention.
In the church are displayed crutches and stretchers and nameplates of those who got healed or passed the exam. I find the display cheap advertisements of the miracle factory. It is done with cheap taste. What are those crutches and stretchers? Belonging to the lame all their lives who suddenly stood up so that they left them there? There are polio victims in Simala. Did they not go up the hill and prayed and got cured? Miracles are not advertised that way; otherwise, their real existence become suspicious. They tend to cleverly decieve one into believing.
If the virgin is truly the miraculous virgin of Simala, she must have begun cleaning Simala. You should know your neighbors and what do they do for a living. Any miraculous change in them?
Ok, the place is scenic. But any hilly place in Cebu always overlook the sea. That view has always been there since time immemorial.
Finally, Ms. Mansueto, read some more and study some more, especially the Catholic catechism books in the library of the madres in the academy. There you will learn that images and statues are but representations of God or the virgin to aid our senses when we pray. The real God and Mother Mary are in heaven. They look down upon us all and God showers his graces to those who believe in him and follow his commandments and to those who pray whether in the ruins of Oslob church, Boljoon, Alcoy, Dalaguete, Argao, Sibonga, Carcar or the previously miraculous Pitalo church.
God bless you and your family. May you find true faith, even without miracles.
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Report: Vatican to Issue New Guidelines on Assessing Apparitions
TImes Online – Sept. 12, 2008 – The London Times has reported that the Pope has asked Monsignor Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer, a Spanish Jesuit and secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith – which Benedict himself headed as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger – to draw up new guidelines for bishops around the world on the recognition of reported apparitions by the Virgin Mary.
The Vatican official said the Pope wanted to avoid “excesses and abuses”. He believes bishops should resist being swayed by the emotional reaction of believers and be guided instead by strictly applied “scientific, psychological and theological criteria”.
Vittorio Messori, an Italian Catholic writer who is close to the Pope, said the then Cardinal Ratzinger had told him in 1985 that “patrience and caution” were the key to validating Marian visions. “No apparition is indispensable to the faith” the future Pope told Messori. “The Revelation ended with Jesus Christ”.
He said Benedict’s approach to Mariology was a mixture of “the mystical and the intellectual”.
Guidelines for the approval of apparitions and revelations were last issued in 1978. They lay down that a diocesan bishop can “either on his own initiative or at the request of the faithful” choose to investigate an alleged apparition. He then submits a report to the Vatican for approval.
Pending the promulgation of the new guidelines, this is the existing guideline on apparition and miracles. Visit (www.catholicstore.com)
1978 Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith document on apparition discernment (unoffical English translation)
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Apparition Discernment
Approved Apparitions
1978 Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith document on apparition discernment (in French) – the sections in italics are opening and closing remarks by Joachim Bouflet – these remarks and the text from the CDF are taken from his book, jointly authored with Philippe Boutry, Un signe dans le ciel, (Grasset, Paris, 1997), pp. 396-99.
© Joachim Bouflet & Philippe Boutry, 1997
The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith elaborated, from 1974-1978, some new criteria for discerning apparitions and revelations, which were expounded in a normative text, which, for a long period, was only made available to the Ordinary [local bishop] who, confronted with the fact of an apparition, addressed himself to the Sacred Congregation. These standards govern the treatment of events after 1980 (notably Medjugorje), and they also brought about the resumption of certain previous investigations (those of Bonate and Garabandal, amongst others):
Preliminary Note: Origin and character of these norms.
At the time of the Annual Plenary Congregation during November 1974, the Fathers of this Sacred Congregation studied the problems relating to apparitions and supposed revelations, and the consequences which often result from these, and they arrived at the following conclusions:
1. Today more than formerly, the news of these apparitions is spread more quickly among the faithful thanks to the means of information (”mass media”); in addition, the ease of travel supports more frequent pilgrimages. Also, the ecclesiastical authority was itself brought to reconsider this subject.
2. Similarly, because of current instruments of knowledge, the contributions of science, and the requirement of a rigorous criticism, it is more difficult, if not impossible, to arrive as speedily as previously at judgements which conclude, as formerly happened, investigations into this matter (“constate de supernaturalitate, non constat de supernaturalitate”); and because of that, it is more difficult for the Ordinary to authorize or prohibit public worship or any other form of devotion of the faithful.
For these reasons, so that the devotion stirred up among the faithful by facts of this kind can appear as a disposition in full communion with the Church, and bear fruit, and so that the Church itself is able to ultimately distinguish the true nature of the facts, the Fathers consider that it is necessary to promote the following practice in regard to this matter.
So that the ecclesiastical authority is able to acquire more certainty on such or such an apparition or revelation, it will proceed in the following way:
a) Initially, to judge the facts according to positive and negative criteria (cf. below, n.1).
b) Then, if this examination appears favorable, to allow certain public demonstrations of cult and devotion, while continuing to investigate the facts with extreme prudence (which is equivalent to the formula: “for the moment, nothing is opposed to it”).
c) Finally, after a certain time, and in the light of experience, (starting from a particular study of the spiritual fruits generated by the new devotion), to give a judgement on the authenticity of the supernatural character, if the case requires this.
I. Criteria of judgement, concerning the probability at least, of the character of the apparitions and supposed revelations.
A) Positive criteria:
a) Moral certainty, or at least great probability, as to the existence of the fact, [revelation] acquired at the end of a serious investigation.
b) Particular circumstances relating to the existence and the nature of the fact:
1. Personal qualities of the subject—in particular mental balance, honesty and rectitude of moral life, habitual sincerity and docility towards ecclesiastical authority, ability to return to the normal manner of a life of faith, etc.
2. With regard to the revelations, their conformity with theological doctrines and their spiritual veracity, their exemption from all error.
3. A healthy devotion and spiritual fruits which endure (in particular, the spirit of prayer, conversions, signs of charity, etc).
B) Negative criteria:
a) A glaring error as to the facts.
b) Doctrinal errors that one would attribute to God himself, or to the Blessed Virgin Mary, or the Holy Spirit in their manifestations (taking into account, however, the possibility that the subject may add something by their own activity—even if this is done unconsciously—of some purely human elements to an authentic supernatural revelation, these having nevertheless to remain free from any error in the natural order. Cf. St Ignatius, Spiritual Exercises, n. 336).
c) An obvious pursuit of monetary gain in relation with the fact.
d) Gravely immoral acts committed by the subject, or his associates, at the time of the facts, or on the occasion of these facts.
E) Psychic disorders or psychopathic tendencies concerning the subject, which would exert an unquestionable influence on the allegedly supernatural facts, or indeed psychosis, mass hysteria, or other factors of the same kind.
It is important to consider these criteria, whether they are positive or negative, as indicative standards and not as final arguments, and to study them in their plurality and in relation with the other criteria.
II. Intervention of the competent local Authority
1. As, at the time of a presumed supernatural fact, worship or an ordinary form of devotion is born in a quasi spontaneous way among the faithful, the competent ecclesiastical Authority has the serious obligation to inform itself without delay and to carry out a diligent investigation.
2. At the legitimate request of the faithful (when they are in communion with their pastors and are not driven by a sectarian spirit), the competent ecclesiastical Authority can intervene to authorize and promote various forms of worship and devotion if, assuming the criteria given above having been applied, nothing is opposed to it. But there must be vigilance nevertheless, to ensure that the faithful do not regard this way of acting as an approval by the Church of the supernatural character of the event in question (cf. above, Preliminary Note, c).
3. By virtue of his doctrinal and pastoral duty, the competent ecclesiastical Authority can intervene immediately of his own authority, and he must do so in serious circumstances, for example, when it is a question of correcting or of preventing abuses in the exercise of worship or devotion, to condemn erroneous doctrines, to avoid the dangers of a false mysticism etc.
4. In doubtful cases, which do not involve the welfare of the Church, the competent ecclesiastical Authority may refrain from any judgement and any direct action (more especially as it can happen that, at the end of a certain time, the supposedly supernatural event can lapse from memory); but he should not remain less vigilant about the event, in such a way as to be in a position to intervene with swiftness and prudence, if that is necessary.
III. Other Authorities entitled to intervene
1. The foremost authority to inquire and to intervene belongs to the local Ordinary.
2. But the regional or national episcopal Conference may intervene:
a) If the local Ordinary, after having fulfilled the obligations which fall to him, resorts to them for a study of the event in its entirety.
b) If the event assumes national or regional importance.
3. The Apostolic See can intervene, either at the request of Ordinary himself, or at the request of a qualified group of the faithful, or directly by virtue of the immediate right of universal jurisdiction of the Sovereign Pontiff (cf. above, IV).
IV. Intervention of the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
1. a) The intervention of the Sacred Congregation can be agreed to be necessary either by the Ordinary, after he has fulfilled the obligations falling to him, or by a qualified group of the faithful. In this second case, vigilance is necessary so that the recourse to the Sacred Congregation is not motivated by suspect reasons (for example to force, in one way one or another, the Ordinary to modify his legitimate decisions, or to confirm the sectarian drift of a group, etc.)
b) It belongs to the Sacred Congregation to intervene of its own accord in serious cases, in particular when the event affects a broad portion of the Church; but the Ordinary will always be consulted, as well as the episcopal Conference, if the situation requires it.
2. It belongs to the Sacred Congregation to discern and approve the way of acting of the Ordinary, or, if it proves to be necessary, to carry out a new examination of the facts distinct from that which the Ordinary carried out; this new examination of the facts will be done either by the Sacred Congregation itself, or by a commission especially established for this purpose.
The present norms, defined in the plenary Congregation of this Sacred Congregation, were approved by the Sovereign Pontiff, Pope Paul VI, on February 24 1978.
At Rome, the Palace of the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, February 27, 1978.
Francis, Cardinal Seper, Prefect, Fr. Jerome Hamer, O.P., Secretary.
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It is a question of avoiding a reading too strictly legal on the fact of the apparition. By taking into account various factors up to that point neglected or ignored, in particular the mechanisms of inculturation, the contribution of the social sciences makes it possible to locate the apparition in the historical and sociocultural context where it finds at the same time its roots and its application. This recent approach lays down new pastoral orientations which, without calling into question the traditional criteria of the discernment of the spirits, authorizes a calmer reading of the event and its integration, its insertion in the life of the ecclesial community: more and more, the basic community that is the parish, the communion which is the diocese, becomes the place and the test bench of the mariophanie; even when the latter remains a phenomenon of popular Christianity, it must itself respond to the expectations of the Church-communion, and not only of that of a limited section of the ecclesial community.
© Joachim Bouflet & Philippe Boutry, 1997
Please be guided. Visit these sites before going to any miraculous places:
http://www.theotokos.org.uk
http://www.apparitions.org
http://www.miraclehunter.com
or search for “marian apparitions”, “approved apparitions”, “unapproved apparitions”, “marian theology”.
Sa giingnon ko na, dili kini mao ang husto nga lugar aron tuki-on ang mga panghitabo nga dili pa matugkad. Giklaro gyud nga gimugna kining maong blog aron lang makita sa kadaghanang Cebuano kon unsa nay panghitabo ug bag -ong kalambo-anhan sa Sugbo.
Kon himoon lang kining lalisanan, mapuno lang kini ug walay katapusan nga tinubagay.
Gipakita lamang dinhi ang mga matahom nga talan-awon karon dinhi sa tibuok Sugbo ug walay dugang pahayag sa mga butang nga lisod tugkaron.
Naa may naghatag sa iyang address, ug ang tubag alang man kaha kaniya, palihug adto lang ipadala.
Salamat ug hinaot nga mopadayon kita sa hustong pagsubay niining nindot nga blog.
Mao ba? Asa man diay tubaga ang komentaryo nga imong gikomentaryohan, kun dili sa lugar nga siya nagpatik sa komentaryo. Og idiretso sa iyaha, dili na patas: ang iyaha nabasa sa tanan, ang ako wala.
Tinuod nga kining blog gimugna aron matan-aw sa tanan ang maanindot nga talan-awon sa Cebu. Salamat kang Leylander. Walay pahinumdum. Wala mangayo og amot. Tanan alang sa iyang gugma sa Cebu. Kay siya man ang gamugna, siya ang tag-iya. Ug siya ang angay mamadlong dinhi. Dili ikaw. Kung nagbasa pa ka una sa iyang FAQ, naa gani siya’y gahum nga papason ang mga komentaryo nga dili niya gusto. Kung iya ning papason ang imo ug ang ako, walay ta’y mahimo, kay pagbuot sa tag-iya. Wala ka pugsa nga mobasa sa mga komentaryo, kung dili nimo gusto, di ayaw’g basa ug ipadayon ang imong pagtan-aw sa kadaghan pang mga maanindot nga hulagway dinhi sa blog.
Naa’y mga butang nga angay lalisan. Pinaagi sa lalis, mogawas ang kamatuoran. Ang dili gusto nga molalis, dili gusto nga mogawas ang kamatuoran o nahadlok ba hinoon.
Naa’y mga butang nga dili na lalisan kay kini gidawat o angay dawaton nga kamatuoran, sama sa tanang angay toohan sa usa ka katoliko nga naa sa pangadye-ong “Mitoo Ako”. Ang mga pagtoo nga gawas niini, angay lalisan, kay posible nga kini sila, mga too-too, kay gawas man sa pagtoo.
Busa kung ikaw mag-ingon nga naa’y milagro, andam ka sa mga mokomentaryo nga walay milagro. Ug ang mga mobasa, maoy maghukom o maghulma sa ilang huna-huna.
Humana unta ko sa pagbat-bat sa akong mga punto, kay ako dili sama sa mga tawo nga naa sa imong palibot nga dili mahuman ang lalis kay balik=balikon ang ilang punto, gawas kung naay bag-ong punto nga angay nga tubagon.
Kung dili mahuman kining lalis, dili man pod tingali mapuno ning blog nga dili imo. Motubay pod diay ka, kapila ray pagbalhin aron motan-aw sa Mantayupan ug sa Kawasan Falls! Sige diay kag anhi aron motutok aning mga hulagwaya?
Sa kataposan, ang mga butang nga lisod tugkaron angay nga sulayan nga tugkaron. Kay kung naa ra ka sa mabaw, bugaong ra ang imong makuha ug magtoo ka nga bugaong ra ang isda.
Lastly, peace bai. Nia ta sa demokrasya.
akong mama naayo sa iyang sakit nga diabetes ako nag pasalamat gyud ko ug dako ni mama mary nga iya gyung gidungug ang akong mga pag ampo ddidto sa iyang balay alampoanan…………… thank you so much mama mary for your helping to my mother.
Nice. Magpasalamat ka sa Ginoo nga Iyang gidungog ang inyong mga pag-ampo nga ma-maayo ang imong inahan pinaagi sa pangaliya ni Mama Mary.
Thank God for hearing your prayers for the healing of your mother through the intercession of Mother Mary.
God the Father in Heaven, have mercy on us.
God the Son, Redeemer of the World, have mercy on us.
God the Holy Spirit, have mercy on us.
Holy Trinity One God, have mercy on us.
HOLY MARY, PRAY FOR US.
And as rightly said in the old Cebuano Marian song:
O Maria, O Maria,
Gipanamkon nga walay sala.
Ig-ampo mo, ig-ampo mo kami
Nga midangop kanimo.
O Mary, O Mary,
Conceived without sin.
Pray, pray for us
Who come to you.
sobrang ganda na tlaga lalo ang marian monks…. ive been there last august 2008… so surprised wen i saw the monastery….sobrang wow! tlga…hehehe
And everytime na uli ko cebu, i make sure na visit jud ko basta maau ra jud lawas….
luv u mama mary! thanks for the blessings!
luv u mama mary! thanks for all the blessings! for everything!
REX,
ASSALAM ALAIKUM
Read the latest in Simala:
LINK
Hallo
I am the UN Representative here in Manor Park. The UN has just
commenced their Annual Funding to NGO and Hospital.I got your contact
through the yahoo email directory and feel i should speak with the
Secretary General on how to donate through you and establish a
charitable organisation and Hospital for the poor. Can you be able to
handle this kind of Project? Let me have your response to know the next
discussion with the Secretary.
God Bless you
David
contact rep at davimark_22@yahoo.com
Hoax.
i’ve been there and all my prayers were answered.. it’s faith that work!
Br. Rex…
Ave MAria!
Gusto jud ko muanha diha, kaso lang layo lang mi sa cebu… pero maningkamot jud ko makaanha diha… ug gusto ko maka estorya sa usa ka mnk diha nga mao sab muhatag kanako ug tambag mahitungod sa akoang kinabuhi… ug c Lord ug Mama Mary nalang ang muhatag kanakog kadasig ug lamdag uban sa inyong mga pag-ampo br. rex. thanx
Hello mama mary,
Please continue to heal me and my family. Please guide me always .
I want to serve my children as well
TATA
all i wish is to visit simala..but i dont know kng asa na xa dapita….yeah.,.they said,sibonga..pero,..ambot,,wa jud ko katultul dhang dapita…ASA jud diay na xa?…helppp nurseee….hehe
sakay ka ug bus. ingna lang ang kondoctor nga simala shrine ka naug. muhunong gyud ang buses didto kay daghan man taw didto munaug pud. dili ka masaag. basta inig agi ninyo sa sibonga church, ayaw na katulog kay duol na.
inig naug nimo sa bus, ayaw kabalaka kay daghan traysikol ug habal-habal. ilugan pa ka kung magkalisod. LOL.
dritso na na sila sa shrine.
I was in Simala,Sibonga last January . Swerte kaayo mi adtong adlawa , there were not so many visitors at that time . I have the chance, of course to pray longer ,meditate , write a petition, making pila to hold the hand of mama mary and embrace her , hear a mass , buy a souveneir , reading an answered prayers ,etc. I feel talaga na i am in heaven and I am so blessed. Thank you Mama Mary for everything. I love you. see yah next year!
Mama Mary pls hear and answer my petition and let me see you miracle and mercy…. and i promise gyud nako nga mag rosary gyud ko para nimo my whole sundays of my life…
WE LOVE YOU SOOOOO MUCCCCHHHH MAMA MARY….
Adto ko Simala ugma. Mangayo ko sa abag-ampo ni Mama Mary alang sa kaayuhan sa akong kamanghurang anak. Abag-ampo kay dili man siya ang motubag niini apan manghinaot ko nga abagan ako niya sa pag-ampo kay moagi man usab kaniya ang grasya nga moalim – kung itugot sa Ginoo – sa akong anak.
Mangamuyo ako kang Santa Maria, atong inahan, nga abagan ako sa akong pangaliya sa grasya gikan ni Kristo alang sa kaayohan sa akong anak.
To Christ through Mary!
Naa na ko nag pari diri sa California sulod na sa 13 ka tuig. Last May nagbakasyon ko diha sa Pinas ug padulong mi sa Samboan niadtong higayona uban sa akong apohan. We wanted to drop by Simala, gikan mi sa siudad sa Sugbo (he told me about the place & some testimonies of miraculous cures). I wanted to see the place myself & perhaps hear testimonies from people but too bad the gate was still closed naabut mi sa Simala sayo pa man sa buntag. Pero mobalik ra jud ko diha & then spend some moments in Simala. Testimonies of simple & ordinary people about cures in Simala are for me miracles already. Matoohon ug mahadlokon sila sa Dios & they cannot fabricate stories just like that.