I didn’t know any altar boys when I was young, probably because I went to public school and because my family didn’t go to church all that much. But I did always want to ring the
Simbang Gabi Day 4: Dumbstruck
“Your prayer has been heard,” the angel Gabriel told Zechariah. The elderly priest and his wife would be blessed with their first child, who would lead many of the Israelites to God,
Simbang Gabi Day 3: Silent Night
Simbang Gabi, Mass of the Night, got its start in the Philippines back 400 years ago. At the nine-day novena, which my parish observes at 5 a.m., we get a few hundred Filipinos and
Simbang Gabi Day 2: Working with What He Has
It’s no easy task to read out loud, much less make an interesting homily out of, the genealogy of Jesus. Yet Father Randy Gonzales managed to do both at today’s pre-dawn