Category: Simbang Gabi

“It’s like loaves and fishes,” a good friend said as we crossed paths this morning, taking full serving platters in and empty ones out of the post-Simbang Gabi Mass breakfast line. “Either that or the locusts,” I said, laughing.

I love it when someone turns my head around on a Bible interpretation. It happened last week, when my friend TonyD wrote about Elizabeth’s close moment to the Lord during the Visitation; I’d only ever thought about her interaction with Mary at that time. This morning, it was Joseph

The genealogy of Jesus, as we learn in Matthew 1:1-17, is complicated–full of unsavory sinners, of wise and foolish kings, of virtuous and unvirtuous women. Yet it was the lineage that God chose to deliver His Son to the world. Our celebrant at today’s 5 a.m. Simbang Gabi Mass opened by asking us to turn… Continue reading Simbang Gabi 2013, Day 2: The Genealogy We Choose

“It’s really been a year of healing,” my friend said at today’s first Simbang Gabi Mass. A year ago, her husband suffered a heart attack in the early days of our nine-day novena. Now, the doctors say you would never know it had happened. One of our celebrants, a longtime friend, focused on the big… Continue reading Simbang Gabi 2013, Day 1: A Year of Healing