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[Title] => 9-day Simbang Gabi starts today
[Summary] => Starting today, the faithful in this predominantly Catholic nation will flock to churches before dawn, bundled up against the chilly winds of December.
[DatePublished] => 2014-12-16 00:00:00
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[AuthorName] => Bebot Sison Jr.
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[Title] => ‘Simbang Gabi’ ushers in Pinoy Christmas
[Summary] => The traditional Simbang Gabi, which kicks off the country’s Christmas season, starts today as the Filipino faithful flock to churches for the dawn Mass.
[DatePublished] => 2012-12-16 00:00:00
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[AuthorName] => Bebot Sison Jr.
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[Title] => Celebrating dawn Mass, CCP style
[Summary] => There is a special feeling one gets when hearing morning Mass at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP).
[DatePublished] => 2009-12-21 00:00:00
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[Title] => 'Simbang Gabi' ushers in Pinoy Christmas
[Summary] => Today, the faithful will again begin a Christmas tradition as they start the nine-day Simbang Gabi or dawn Masses.
[DatePublished] => 2009-12-16 00:00:00
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[Title] => The Mass of the Rooster
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Christmas, as the old cliché goes, is just around the corner. Here in the Philippines, the Holiday Season starts on December 16 with the time-honored observance of Misa de Gallo or Simbang Gabi. The Misa de Gallo is one of the longest and most popular among the Filipino traditions in the country.
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[AuthorName] => Alejandro R. Roces
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[Title] => Misas de Aguinaldo
[Summary] => Since Miguel Lopez de Legaspi celebrated the first feast of the Nativity of the Lord in the Philippines in 1565, Christmas has been the longest and best loved festivity of the Filipinos. In preparation for the Nativity, a novena is started on December 16th and this is known as the Misas de Aguinaldo, or Gift Masses. The Misas de Aguinaldo started in Mexico when, in 1587, Fray Diego de Soria, prior of the Convent of San Agustin Acolman, petitioned the Pope for permission to hold Christmastide Masses outdoors because the church could not accommodate the multitude that attended the services.
[DatePublished] => 2005-12-10 00:00:00
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[AuthorName] => Alejandro R. Roces
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[Title] => Our X’mas season begins with the Simbang Gabi
[Summary] => In most countries, the Christmas season is generally from the midnight of December 24 to New Year’s Day or the Epiphany. In the Philippines, it starts with a series of novena Masses known as Simbang Gabi, the first of which was celebrated last Monday.
[DatePublished] => 2002-12-19 00:00:00
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[AuthorName] => Alejandro R. Roces
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[Title] => Origins of Christmas
[Summary] => Nowadays, people have to look at the calendar to know when the moon will be new, full or on its first and last quarter. So very few people realize that today is the December solstice, the time the sun reaches its extreme southern point. Three days from now, the sun will begin to rise higher in the sky, a great event that in the ancient Roman calendar was called Natalis Solis Invicti, the birthday of the Unconquered Sun. That was the pagan feast that was Christianized as the Feast of the Nativity after the introduction of Christianity.
[DatePublished] => 2001-12-22 00:00:00
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[AuthorName] => Alejandro R. Roces
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[Title] => Predawn Masses signal start of RP Christmas
[Summary] => In most countries, Christmas is from the Eve of the Nativity till the Epiphany. In the Philippines, the Christmas season officially starts on December 16 to the Feast of the Three Kings that is now commemorated on the first Sunday of January. In Tagalog, it is known as simbang-gabi, (night Masses). But its original Spanish name is Misas de Aguinaldo, or Gift Masses. It is a custom that we got, not from Spain, but from Mexico, where it started in 1587.
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