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Catholic devotees with candles during the Easter Vigil at Santiago Apostol Church, Plaridel, Bulacan. Black Saturday or Holy Saturday (Sábado de Gloria) is the third and final public holiday of the week. The day is legally and colloquially termed in English as “Black” given the color's role in mourning.
Red vestments are used for the Feast of the Black Nazarene. In the absence of a national liturgical directive for the feast day, the decision to celebrate the feast was up to the parishes and communities. As such, in 2024, the Archdiocese of Manila has proposed to the Holy See to declare January 9 as the "national feast of the Black Nazarene". [28]
On July 25, 1987, President Corazon Aquino promulgated the Administrative Code of the Philippines. [1] Chapter 7 of this code specified a list of ten nationwide regular holidays and two nationwide special days and provided that the President may proclaim any local special day for a particular date, group or place.
The General Roman Calendar is the liturgical calendar that indicates the dates of celebrations of saints and mysteries of the Lord (Jesus Christ) in the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church, wherever this liturgical rite is in use. These celebrations are a fixed annual date, or occur on a particular day of the week.
Festivals in the Philippines can be religious, cultural, or both. Several of these are held to honor the local Roman Catholic patron saint, to commemorate local history and culture, to promote the community's products, or to celebrate a bountiful harvest.
It is one of the most important Marian feasts in the liturgical calendar of the Roman Catholic Church. By pontifical decree, it is the patronal feast day of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Italy, Korea, Nicaragua, Paraguay, the Philippines, Spain, the United States, and Uruguay. By royal decree, it is designated as the day honoring the patroness of ...
The earliest feasts that relate to Mary grew out of the cycle of feasts that celebrate the Nativity of Jesus Christ.Given that according to the Gospel of Luke (Luke 2:22–40), forty days after the birth of Jesus, along with the Presentation of Jesus at the Temple, Mary was purified according to Jewish customs, the Feast of the Purification began to be celebrated by the 5th century, and became ...
The Catholic Church's liturgical calendar, from US Catholic Bishops Archived February 7, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, or from O.S.V. publishing Archived November 13, 2013, at the Wayback Machine. Universalis – A liturgical calendar of the Catholic Church including the Liturgy of the Hours and the Mass readings.