MISA DE GALLO MASSES START TODAY

              Dec. 16, 2009. An estimated three thousand people flocked to the Sts. Peter and Paul Church this morning for the first day of the Misa de Gallo masses. Not only was every space inside the church filled with church goers but including also the open spaces outside the church. A projector  was installed outside the church so that those who could not get inside the church could also see what was happening inside.  Celebrant of the mass was the parish priest, Msgr. Bernardo Pantin. The main theme being developed in the homilies for this year’s  Misa de Gallo is: The Incarnation of the Lord: Principle and Pattern of Transformation.”   Each day a sub theme is being meditated based on the word Christmas.

Dec. 16    C      COMMITMENT TO MISSION, PEACE and 
                             HEALING

Dec 17     H      HOPE IN GOD’S PROVIDENCE

Dec 18     R      RENEWED FAITH

Dec 19     I       INTEGRITY OF LIFE   

Dec 20     S       SERVICE OF GOD AND NEIGHBOR

Dec 21     T      TRUST IN GOD’S LOVE AND 
                         FAITHFULNESSS

Dec 22    M      MARY AS MODEL IN WORD AND DEED

Dec 23     A      APOSTOLIC DYNAMISM

Dec 24     S       SHARED (social) VALUES AND 
                          CONCERNS

Dec 24, Vigil Mass      JESUS, THE INCARNATION OF GOD’S PROMISES   

Mass at Midnight      JESUS, LIGHT OF THE WORLD

            Aside from from the 4 a.m. mass in the main church, five other chapels within the parish have their own simbang gabi which started last night: Bantigue, Camp Downes, Malbasag, Alta Vista and Nadongholan.  This year the priests in the parish are also helping saying the misa de gallo in other chapels outside the parish like in Macabug of the Ipil, Ormoc Parish, alternately Naungan or Tambulilid chapels from the Linao parish, the Monastery of the Clarisas Capuchinas and the Hermitage in Natubgan, Kananga. 

The design and execution of the Belen this year is through the efforts of the Knights of Columbus and the Daughters of Mary Immaculate.