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Rizalistas as Religious Sects
• Ciudad Mistica de Dios • Adamista • Bathalismo
• Watawat ng Lahi • Iglesia Sagrada Flilipina
• and Espiritual Pilipino Catholic Church
Rizalistas as Religious Sects
• some believed that Rizal has an apparent parallelism to Jesus Christ in
many ways • other's believed that Rizal is the
messiah of the Philippines just like Jesus Christ as messiah of Israel
• there were also those who believed that Rizal was the re-incarnation of
Christ
Rizalistas as Religious Sects
•Ciudad Mistica de Dios • Adamista • Bathalismo
• Watawat ng Lahi • Iglesia Sagrada Flilipina
• and Espiritual Pilipino Catholic Church
Ciudad Mistica de Dios most popular and important Founder: Maria Bernarda Balitaan – b.1876 located in Mt. Banahaw, Quezon largely a women-dominated community headed by a woman leader named Suprema her name is Isabel Suarez, celibate and a
convert from Roman Catholicism
Ciudad Mistica de Dios Mt. Banahaw once an active volcano
its last eruption was in 1721 it is also a National Park Holy Week as the “yearly rape of
Banahaw now under restoration
Ciudad Mistica de Dios: Banahaw as altar of brave Filipino heroes
like Jose Rizal, Andres Bonifacio, Emilio Aguinaldo, and Gregorio del Pilar
hiding place of political dissidents like Hermano Pule during the Spanish era
their saints are all Filipinos self-sufficient and independent from the
Catholic Church
Ciudad Mistica de Dios considered Mt. Banahaw as a holy place, a
Holy Land it is a spiritual center since pre-Hispanic
times a power mountain having extraordinary
spiritual potency a center of religious pilgrimages it has healing power: through orasyon, herbs,
hilot, waters
Ciudad Mistica de Dios Puwesto: a sacred natural shrine like a river,
waterfall, peak, cave, or rock (like Catholic’s Via Crucis)
Ciudad Mistica de Dios Puwesto: a sacred natural shrine like a river,
waterfall, peak, cave, or rock (like Catholic’s Via Crucis)
Rituals for cleansing and purification from sin in
puwestos include: bathing lighting a candle silent prayer climbing meditations on the events of Christ’s passion
Ciudad Mistica de Dios
monothestic; Jose Rizal is not a God nor messiah but a messenger worship is directly to God through Jesus
Christ alone they worshipped the androgynous
masculine and feminine aspects of God
called Dios Ama-Ina: “Sa ngalan ng Ama-Ina, at
ng Anak at ng Espiritu Santo.”
Ciudad Mistica de Dios
Prepare its members until the final New Jerusalem (which was supposed to take place in the year 2000)
Catholic Church statement on popular/folk/indigenous religiosity or spirituality:
“...if it is well oriented…it is rich in values. It manifests
a thirst for God which only the simple and the poor
can know. It makes people capable of generosity
and sacrifice even to the point of heroism, when it is
a question of manifesting belief. It involves an
awareness of profound attributes of God: fatherhood, providence, loving and constant presence. It engenders
interior attitudes rarely observed to the same degree elsewhere:
patience, the sense of the cross in daily life, detachment, openness to others, devotion.”
Pope Paul VI
Assignment:
Write a one-page essay, Times Roman 11, 1.5 space, 2.0. margins on all sides by answering this question:
As a Christian, what could you possibly learn for your
faith or search for personal meaning from
indigenous religion or spirituality like the Ciudad Mistica de Dios?
Submit a hard copy next meeting. Good for 40 points. Prepare for quiz also.