The childlike devotion of the Filipinos to the Holy Child is phenomenal and profound. Filipinos don’t seem to tire showing their love for the Holy Child. The long procession of the Congregacion del Santissimo Nombre del Niño Jesus last Sunday was proof of this. It took eight hours (3 p.m. to 11 p.m.) with 200 carrozas parading from the Philtrade to the Quirino Grandstand on Roxas Blvd.
Now on its 10th year, Sayaw Pinoy has become the longest-running festival of the National Arts Month, renamed the Philippine International Arts Festival.
“If they told me the only way I would get here was by swimming, I would try.” —Joe Bataan
Welcome to the mountains!” said The Manor managing director Heinrich Maulbecker, by way of greeting the Manila trimedia who came over that weekend for the Panagbenga, upon the invitation of The Manor at Camp John Hay.
Just as easily as they party, Filipinos find an excuse to dance—for leisure or entertainment, as a manifestation of worship or as a social valve for relationships.
