Workers in harnesses put up huge Christmas lanterns made of colorfully painted native hats inside the National Shrine of Our Mother of Perpetual Help, or Baclaran Church, in time for Misa de Gallo that started
While the tradition of the Vista Iglesia calls for the faithful to visit seven churches on Holy Thursday and pray seven repetitions each of Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory Be, others visit 14 churches to correspond with the 14 Stations of the Cross, praying at one Station in each church.
Devotees of the National Shrine of Our Mother of Perpetual Help in Baclaran thought it would be just another announcement after the Mass when its rector, Fr. Ino Cueto, CSSR, asked them to stay.
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