The Mass of the Rooster. The traditional nine-day Christmas Novena celebrated with dawn Masses. Here in the Parish of St Fabian, the Misa de Gallo is celebrated at 4:30 AM. Today is the second day of the Novena.
Yesterday, the sacristan, Kuya Boy, prepared 2,500 small hosts for the Holy communion. They were just about enough for the communicants. There was only one ciborium left, and it was not even full. (This number is almost the total number of Catholics who attend the four(4) scheduled Masses on Sundays.) Many of these actually find enough reasons not to attend the regular SundayMass schedules. And yet, they would come in droves during these nine days: the old and the young (mostly the young), from the barangays and the poblacion. For them, these nine days would determine how well they would be celebrating Christmas.
I wonder...
