Feast of Santo Niño
Submitted by FatherSean on Sat, 01/16/2010 - 09:33.
Thinking that he was in the caravan, they journeyed for a day and looked for him among their relatives and acquaintances, but not finding him, they returned to Jerusalem to look for him.
After three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions, and all who heard him were astounded at his understanding and his answers.
When his parents saw him, they were astonished, and his mother said to him, "Son, why have you done this to us? Your father and I have been looking for you with great anxiety."
And he said to them, "Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father's house?"
But they did not understand what he said to them.
He went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was obedient to them; and his mother kept all these things in her heart.
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Tomorrow is the Feast of the Santo Niño here in the Philippines and it replaces the Second Sunday of Ordinary Time.
Readings
Is 9:1-6
Ps 97:1, 2-3, 3-4, 5-6
Eph 1:3-6
Lk 2:41-52.
Gospel (New American Bible)
Each year his parents went to Jerusalem for the feast of Passover, and when he was twelve years old, they went up according to festival custom. After they had completed its days, as they were returning, the boy Jesus remained behind in Jerusalem, but his parents did not know it.
And Jesus advanced (in) wisdom and age and favor before God and man.
You can find a homily guide on last year's readings - only the Gospel is different - by Fr Orlando P. Sapuay MS on the website of the Ina ng Pag-as Province of the Missionaries of Our Lady of La Salette.
Brief Background to the Sinulog
The website of the Sto Niño Basilica in Cebu carries this brief background to the feast:
THE SINULOG
Cebu is abuzz with a flurry of activities every January of each year which culminates on the third Sunday, during which the fiesta Señor takes place.
On said Sunday, the grandest and biggest of all Philippines festival takes place in the streets of Cebu, the Sinulog Festival. The Sinulog takes its roots from the candle vendors in front of the Augustinian Church of Cebu. It is rendition of the sinug, which is a prayer-dance offered either in supplication or in thanksgiving to the Santo Niño. It is by candle-waving women who follow a simple forward and backward routine while offering prayers for any devotee.
The dance routine of the sinug is said to be in imitation of the sulog (current) of Pahina river of Cebu City. While dancing and waving candles, the women chant: Pit Señor! Pit Señor! which is short for Sangpit sa Senyor or loosely translated as Hail the Lord! Devotees have also adopted the chant as an ejaculatory prayer and one would normally hear petitions like: Pit Senyor kang Tatay kini (Hail the Lord, this one's for my father!)
On the third Sunday of each year, countless visitors from outside Cebu the Philippines come to Cebu City to witness the Sinulog Festival where performers from various parts of the archepelago congregate in supplication or in thanksgiving for the blessings received from the Holy Child.
Interior of Basilica Minore del Santo Niño de Cebu (before and now)
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