Every New Yorker is familiar with the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree. But you’d probably be hard-pressed to find many who have heard of Simbang Gabi, a nine-day series of Catholic masses leading up ...
PRIESTLY TREAT Some 34 Filipino priests serenaded parishioners with traditional Christmas songs at the start of the “Simbang Gabi” last Monday at the Cathedral of our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles ...
On Gaudete Sunday, Pope Francis celebrated a Filipino Christmas tradition in St. Peter's Basilica -- the Simbang Gabi Christmas novena. "In the Philippines, for centuries, there has been a novena in ...
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LOS ANGELES — The senses are overloaded by the unmistakable fragrance of incense floating in the air, punctured by the sound of soaring Tagalog Christmas carols and the kaleidoscopic flickering from ...
The Archdiocese of Manila has issued its guidelines for this year’s “Simbang Gabi,” the nine-day series of evening and dawn masses observed by Filipino Catholics in preparation for Christmas. The ...