Dawn Procession
Filipinos join the Catholics around the world as it celebrates the memorial of the nativity of Mary. High Masses and processions were held throughout the country. In Baliuag, Bulacan, a dawn procession was held followed by a Mass. Mons. Enrico Santos, the parish priest spearheaded the said event through the help of the Commission on Liturgy headed by Sister Beeth Benavidez on 2007. Since then it has been a tradition for every Baliwaguenos to join this annual procession. A simple breakfast "almusal" was held at the Church Patio.
History of the Feast
The Nativity of Mary, or Birth of the Virgin, is celebrated as a liturgical feast in the Roman Catholic calendar of saints every September 8, nine months after the solemnity of her Immaculate Conception, celebrated which falls on December 8. This feast, like that of the Assumption of Mary, originated in Jerusalem. It began in the fifth century as the feast of the basilica Sanctae Mariae ubi nata est, now the Basilica of Saint Anne. In the seventh century, the feast was celebrated by the Byzantines and at Rome as the feast of the Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The feast was included in the Tridentine Calendar for 8 September and has remained on that date.
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