Sunday, December 23, 2018

Christmas in Manila. Advent and 9 Days of Simbang Gabi

Advent prepares us for Christmas. 
9 days of Simbang Gabi make us better understand the significance.

Day by day, we deepen our faith with a prayer that this season transforms our hardened heart into a heart of flesh.

8th Gabi 2014 with Fr. Raymund Benedict Hizon as presider and singing led by Hangad at the Gesu. We pray for various reasons, the fundamental and the genuine. We ask and yet eventually submit ourselves to His will. All prayers though with doubts are answered, the more specific, the better. Asking doesn’t make Him change how he looks at us but changes us on how we look at Him.

Prayers follow a format.

ACTS
Adoration Contrition. Thanksgiving. Say or Ask. 

Sharing a personal testimony experienced before Christmas 2013, prayer directed to Ina on the homesickness of a son and the comfort of a mother who suffered a stroke, demonstrated the power of prayer. Mary is an intercessor to our supplication. Let us approach the Lord. Prayer opens our eyes to giftedness. Be not afraid to ask.























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