1. TLM update in Metropolitan Manila:
The Traditional Latin Mass will be celebrated (for the meantime) every Sunday, 9:30 AM, in the crypt chapel of the National Shrine of St. Therese of the Child Jesus, located in Villamor Air Base in Pasay City, Metro Manila, Philippines. The crypt chapel ("La Chapelle des Roses") is in the midst of the columbarium (sometimes called the "catacombs") located under the massive main Church. Pasay City is the territory of the Archdiocese of Manila, but the air base is under the Military Ordinariate of the Philippines.
This is one of only two publicly-accessible every-Sunday Traditional Latin Masses under diocesan auspices located in the entire Greater Manila Area (comprising Metropolitan Manila and the surrounding provinces, with a Catholic population of about 16 million, not including several million transients). The other Mass is the TLM offered every Sunday, 1:30 P.M at the Parish of the Lord of Divine Mercy in Sikatuna, Quezon City, Metro Manila (under the Diocese of Cubao). The PLDM parish also has a daily TLM, at 8:00 in the morning. You may read more about the traditionalist community in this parish here and here. (There are also some private weekday TLM's in Quezon City, but these are not fully open to the public.)
In comparison, last July 2008 there were four every-Sunday TLM's in Metro Manila, all located in easily-accessible parish churches. Today there are but two -- one in a parish, and another in this crypt chapel. All other every-Sunday TLM's once offered in parish churches in Metro Manila -- including the two Masses that had the largest congregations -- have ceased to be offered, due either to official hostility or to the lack of clergy who could offer the Mass of Ages. This is the worst time for the TLM in Metro Manila since the promulgation of Summorum Pontificum.
There is also the SSPX priory church of Our Lady of Victories in Cubao, Quezon City (a few minutes walk from the Immaculate Conception Cathedral of Cubao), with two Masses every day and every Sunday.
2. Summorum Pontificum Anniversary celebrated with a TLM in the Cathedral of Cebu:
Last July 7, 2009, in honor of the second anniversary of the Apostolic Letter Summorum Pontificum, Mass according to the Usus Antiquior was offered in the Metropolitan Cathedral of the Archdiocese of Cebu at 1:30p.m. The Holy Sacrifice was offered by Msgr. Cristobal Garcia, the chairman of the Archdiocesan Commission on Worship. Msgr. Garcia also offers the TLM in the Archdiocesan Shrine of Nuestro Padre Jesus Nazareno (Monastery of the Society of the Angel of Peace), every Sunday at 3:00 PM in Cansojong, Talisay City, Archdiocese of Cebu.
The Archbishop of Cebu is Ricardo Cardinal Vidal, now 78 years old but still reigning. This Archdiocese (with a Catholic population of about 2.5 million) is one of the most friendly in the Philippines to the TLM, and currently has two every-Sunday TLM's plus the FFI church which offers the TLM on three weekdays.
The SSPX has a Mass every 2nd and 4th Sunday in the city of Mandaue.
