What can you say about Filipino Catholics?

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In the year, 2021, the Catholic Church in the Philippines will be celebrating the 500th anniversary of the arrival of Christianity.
The Philippines might be the largest Christian Catholic nation in Asia.

What can you say about Filipino Catholics?
 
God bless them?
Not sure what answer you are looking for, but welcome to the forums!
 
Like what can you say about their faith, do you know any traditions that is unique only to Filipinos, do they make an impact for the better good of the church, those short of answers 🙂🙂
 
Don’t really know if anything is exclusive to them only.

But my priest is a Filipino Catholic, and he’s one of the nicest, most patient guys I’ve ever met.

I’ve struggled with scrupulosity, and he’s walked with me every step of the way. He never once made me feel like a burden.

He’s much like most if not all of the people that go to my church. Definitely some of the nicest people I’ve ever met.
 
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The Philippines is a missionary Catholic Church, meaning they have excess clergy who go abroad sharing the Catholic faith with other countries. That is great.
 
A wonderful faith filled people with some very nice community practices we could all consider.
 
I heard someone on the radio say that in the Philippines, they play the Angelus over the store loudspeakers, and everyone stops to pray it 🙂

How nice is that!
 
We also pray 3’ o clock prayer, they play it in live television, also in schools and some malls.
 
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I very much admire their respect for older people, as evidenced in a custom when a younger person in greeting an older person, takes the older person’s hand and puts it to their own forehead, asking for their blessing.

I watch them do this at my parish. It is a beautiful custom.
 
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They are joy-filled and very reverent in my experience. A few faithful Filipino women are mostly responsible for the conversion of Fr. Donald Calloway, MIC, the surfer priest. He had been a drug runner for the Yakusa in Japan and was essentially deported. An amazing conversion.

At the cancer center where I have been treated since 2008, a Filipino nurse gave me a Focolare “Holding Cross” with the associated prayer. It is amazing, and a wonderful gift. And to think that I was going to give her a Rosary!

The people of the Philippine Islands are among the happiest cultures on earth.
 
Super devoted and active Catholics from what Ive seen here in the states.
 
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Sadly, some Filipino Catholics are leaving the Church because of the persuasion of Protestants making them to believe that the Catholic Church is wrong and they are the right one.
 
I was stationed in poor areas of the Philippines for while I was a religious brother. I have to say that I admire Filipino Catholics greatly. Their faith is omnipresent in every aspect of their daily lives in a way that is totally foreign to most westerners. So too, in many areas of the Philippines, the spiritual realm is just as immediate as the physical one. They are in constant contact with local paganism and witchcraft and so turn to the angels and saints for protection and guidance. The simplicity of the Filipino people has impacted me greatly. When a family cannot even afford furniture but has built a home shrine using anything that they can find around their family crucifix, statue of the Santo Nino, and bible. It is truly beautiful.
 
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The only thing I know is a joke I heard from Cardinal Tagle (from the Philippines). He was explaining the differences between cultures at a breakout session during the 2015 World Meeting of Families.

He said he was once traveling on an American airplane (not American Airlines, but some airline carrier based in the United States) and there was something wrong with his seat or reservation. He said the attendant couldn’t help him, so he tried to play the “but I’m a priest” card. The attendant replied with “so what?”

He then went to say (partly jokingly) that if he would have said “I’m a priest” to a Filipino flight attendant, they would have said “oh, we will take care of that right away Father.” Then he said, “and if I would have said, I’m a bishop, they would have moved me to First Class. And if I would have told them I was a Cardinal, they would have brought me my own plane!”

The Filipinos in the audience were rolling with laughter, saying things like “it’s true, it’s true!”

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I dont know about their traditions as a whole, but there are 2ladies, sisters, very friendly who go to my old parish. They would together walk to different statues And images before mass and say some prayers. They were always at Sunday mass and always at the market working. They work hard and are happy to be in America to have a job, they say. They live here with another brother and sister AMD seem to all live the single life for now. God bless them.
 
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