LOG IN. UPLOAD PICTURES.
The Philippines has Zambo Mart to help propagate the Chavacano Language.
500 street kids, thousands of others receive first communion
- Source:http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=2&rid=852118
- Saturday, January 30, 2016
- (PNA), JBP/EB/PJN
CEBU CITY, Jan. 30 (PNA) -- Some 5,000 children, including 500 street children, will receive their first Holy Communion at the Cebu City Sports Center (CCSC) Saturday afternoon as part of the activities of the 51st International Eucharistic Congress (IEC).
The first communicants Friday attended the rehearsal at the CCSC, reciting prayers for the communion rites.
Cebu Archbishop Emeritus Ricardo Cardinal Vidal reminded the first communicants to prepare to receive the sacrament of the HolyEucharist.
“So that if God allows them to live longer like me at least they will have a good memory of what had happened to them,” he said.
Vidal, 84, said he was six years old and one of many first communicants when the country last hosted the IEC in Manila in 1937.
“I was very, very happy that time. We had to memorize all the songs during the first communion,” he said.
Cardinal Vidal sang a few lines of the songs during his first communion.
He said the activity for the first communicants Saturday is special for its participants, considering it is being held in Cebu, the cradle of Christianity in the country.