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St. Peregrine (https://www.catholic.org/saints/) Feast masses in his honor will held at 5:30 a.m., 7 a.m., 9 a.m., 11 a.m., 2 p.m., 4 p.m., and at 6 p.m. at the St. Peregrine Laziosi Parish Shrine in Tunasan, Muntinlupa City. Only 10 percent or about 100 people will be allowed inside the church. Many pilgrims and devotees from different parts of the country traditionally travel all the way to the shrine to pray before his sacred relic, the rib of his uncorrupted body, which came all the way fr...

Detail from "Simeon with the Infant Jesus" (c. 1796) by Benjamin West [WikiArt.org] As our Advent journey draws to a close, we want to consider the last two canticles presented for our prayerful consideration by St. Luke, the Gloria Nunc Dimittis. We now move into the second chapter of St. Luke’s Gospel, where we read of the birth of Jesus and various events connected to the infancy and early life of the Child Savior. These texts have been known to us since childhood, enchanting us then; it ...