Today’s Mass, the second, starts before the break of dawn, symbolizing the cock-a-hoop celebration of the Mass or Service of Worship in honor of the Nativity of Jesus, a tradition that began in the 400s. READ:
Today’s Mass, the second, starts before the break of dawn, symbolizing the cock-a-hoop celebration of the Mass or Service of Worship in honor of the Nativity of Jesus, a tradition that began in the 400s.Catholic devotees flock to the St. Mary Magdalene Shrine in Kawit, Cavite during the first Simbang Gabi for the year on Friday, December 16. Attendees are still wearing their facemasks inside and outside the church.
The Midnight Mass, its ninth edition on Christmas Eve which becomes a Christmas Day, is moored in the belief that Jesus was born at midnight. Aglipayan and Catholic priests—from Gonzaga in Cagayan to Paoay and Pinili in Ilocos Norte down to Muñoz City in Nueva Ecija, Dagupan City in Pangasinan to Moncada and Gerona in Tarlac, Camalig in Albay, Minglanilla in Cebu and Tagbilaran in Bohol—and the other Christian towns in the country will intone yet once more the significance and message of the Midnight Masses which culminate on the eve of Christmas.
Priests, Aglipayans and Catholics, are one in saying while the Christmas story is captivatingly engrossing, there is something, the inroads of technology despite, that makes believers stop and think and realize that life is deeper than Yuletide’s commercialized portrayal. In some towns of Ilocos Norte, there are waves of lights that illuminate the town centers, apart from giant Christmas trees that rise beside municipal halls blinking for much of the night.
“Joy to the World, the Lord is come!/ Let earth receive her King;/ Let every heart prepare Him room,/ And Heaven and nature sing,/ And Heaven and nature sing,/ And Heaven, and Heaven, and nature sing.”/
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