BO-PK, Team Rama bets hear Mass
IT was unplanned, but supporters of the Bando Osmeña Pundok Kauswagan (BOPK) filled the San Pedro Calungsod Chapel in the South Road Properties (SRP) to the brim for a thanksgiving mass yesterday afternoon.
IT was unplanned, but supporters of the Bando Osmeña Pundok Kauswagan (BOPK) filled the San Pedro Calungsod Chapel in the South Road Properties (SRP) to the brim for a thanksgiving mass yesterday afternoon.
The gun ban, random checkpoints, the volunteers, and the public’s cooperation helped make the Nov. 30 thanksgiving Mass for Saint Pedro Calungsod a success.
While the Nov. 30 National Thanksgiving Mass in Cebu City was generally successful, a weak sound system was a major hitch that church organizers will be looking into.
The euphoria over the successful holding of the National Thanksgiving Mass held at the Templete de Pedro in Cebu City’s South Road Properties (SRP) continues. I had to content myself with watching the program on live streaming and I can’t imagine how the SRP’s 27 hectares could be filled with so many people. More than 1 million were there last Friday – young and old, the able and the lame, the poor and the rich, the who’s who and the hoi polloi.
Allow me to congratulate the organizers of the sucessful holding of the National Thanksgiving Mass for the canonization of San Pedro Calungsod.

President Benigno Aquino III, Vice President Jejomar Binay and Interior Secretary Mar Roxas on Friday led other government officials and more than a million devotees in a National Thanksgiving Mass for the canonization of St. Pedro Calungsod.
The wooden altar table, lectern and presider’s chair have arrived.
Cebu Archbishop Emeritus Ricardo Cardinal Vidal isn’t worried about President Benigno Aquino III making a pitch for the Reproductive Health Bill in Friday’s Thanksgiving Mass for Saint Pedro Calungsod.
Through what Christians would call the workings of Divine Providence, the national thanksgiving Mass following the canonization of Saint Pedro Calungsod will fall at a critical time in Philippine history.
The order for the relief and 15-day suspension of Talisay police chief Supt. Eddie Recamara will be put on hold till after the Nov. 30 San Pedro Calungsod thanksgiving Mass, where all security forces will be fielded.
If you want to attend the Nov. 30 national thanksgiving Mass for St. Pedro Calungsod, better plan ahead.
A city-wide special gun ban will be enforced from Nov. 29 to Dec. 1 for the San Pedro Calungsod thanksgiving Mass, said Cebu city police director Ramon Melvin Buenafe.
CEBU City police are preparing for thousands of visitors, including President Benigno Aquino III and dignitaries, who will attend the Nov. 30 thanksgiving for the sainthood of Pedro Calungsod. More than 1,500 policemen will secure the venue at the South Road Properties. Cebu City Police Office chief Senior Supt. Melvin Ramon Buenafe said they are [...]