“This is our house,” the priest said in his homily at today’s pre-dawn Mass. “We are the children of God.” And what a house it is! The Montgomery girls did the readings this morning. I felt like a
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Simbang Gabi Day 5: The Little Altar Boy
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