Last week at St Mary Star of the Sea, the Filipino community celebrated a centuries old religious tradition honoring the Black Nazarene; a wooden statue of Jesus Christ which we are blessed to have in our church, resembling the originally carved statue dating back to 1606 when it arrived to the Philippines from Mexico.

The celebration was a triduum of masses which went from Tuesday to Thursday, and the procession and mass on Friday. Several hundred people attended with Fr Andrew as the principle celebrant, and other concelebrating priests including Fr. Joselito Asis, the Philippines chaplain in Melbourne. It was inspiring to see such devotion as the procession moved around the church grounds.

To read about this celebration in Manilla click the link below.

http://melbournecatholic.org/.../manilas-first-mega...