MARIAN devotees are set to flock to the annual feast of Nuestra Señora del Santísimo Rosario de La Naval de Manila on Sunday, Oct. 12, at Santo Domingo Church in Quezon City.
In line with the Jubilee Year of Hope, this year’s feast will carry the theme, “Mary: Bearer of Hope.”
The 378th fiesta celebrations on Sunday will be marked with a solemn high Mass at 2:30 p.m., to be presided over by Cubao Bishop Elias Ayuban.
It will be followed by a grand procession of the image of Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary – La Naval de Manila in Quezon City.
The procession will include the images of the 26 saints and blesseds, preceding La Naval’s boat-shaped carrozza:
- St. Lorenzo Ruiz
- Bl. Juana de Aza
- St. Margaret of Castello
- Bl. Thomas Khuong
- St. Francis de Capillas
- St. Vincent Liem de la Paz
- St. Magdalena of Nagasaki
- St. John Macias
- St. Martin de Porres
- St. Rose of Lima
- St. Catherine de Ricci
- St. John of Cologne
- St. Louis Bertrand
- St. Pius V
- St. Vincent Ferrer
- St. Antoninus of Florence
- St. Catherine of Siena
- St. Agnes of Montepulciano
- St. Albert the Great
- St. Raymond of Peñafort
- St. Thomas Aquinas
- St. Margaret of Hungary
- St. Hyacinth of Poland
- St. Peter of Verona
- St. Dominic de Guzmán
- St. Joseph
Masses on the feast day of Quezon City’s patroness are scheduled at 6 a.m., 7:30 a.m., 9 a.m., 10:30 a.m., noon and 7 p.m.
The 9 a.m. fiesta Mass will be led by Fr. Filemon Dela Cruz, Jr., O.P., prior provincial of the Dominican Province of the Philippines.
The La Naval Shrine previously held the motorcade and enthronement rites for the image on Oct. 2.
Novena Masses were also offered from Oct. 3 at 5:20 p.m., led by Dominican friars and guest priests.
Balanga Bishop Rufino Sescon, Jr. and Novaliches Bishop Roberto Gaa led the second and fifth novena Masses, respectively.
The feast of La Naval is celebrated annually on the second Sunday of October.
This year’s celebration marks the third year since the dioceses of Cubao and Novaliches declared the second Sunday of October as the Solemnity of Our Lady of La Naval.
The La Naval fiesta dates back to 1646, when Spaniards and Filipinos credited their naval victory against the invading Dutch forces to the Blessed Virgin Mary.
