TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol, April 29 (PIA)–The City Government of Tagbilaran and the Cathedral Parish of Saint Joseph the Worker has embarked on a collaborative efforts for this year’s celebration of the feast of Saint Joseph the Worker on May 1 dubbed as “Pit Senor San Jose! Viva San Jose! Viva Tagbilaran!”.
Starting last Monday, April 22, a daily novena is being held at 4:30 in the afternoon followed by a holy mass at 5:30 p.m. at the Cathedral.
A nightly activity at 7:30 p.m. at the Tagbilaran Port is now also ongoing. These activities are aimed at reviving, preserving and promoting the city’s significant tradition and unique cultural heritage, in cognizance with Executive Order No. 2 series of 2013 which created the City Council for Culture and the Arts.
Today, April 29, from 2:00 to 6:00 p.m., the statues of Saint Joseph, Mother Mary and Santo Nino comprising the Holy Family will be featured in a fluvial procession from Manga Port to Sitio Ubos, Poblacion I.
Tomorrow, April 30, the first-ever “Saulog Tagbilaran,” a religion-based cultural activity bringing to the fore the life of Saint Joseph, the City’s patron saint, as a loving father and devoted worker and the local devotees’ way of paying homage and thanksgiving will be launched.
This street dancing intends to drumbeat the 250th anniversary of the Cathedral Parish of Saint Joseph the Worker in 2017.
The 9 contingents are barangays Bool, Booy, Cabawan, Cogon, Manga, Mansasa, Poblacion I, Poblacion 2 and Ubujan. The contingents will assemble along the Old City Hall at 12:00 noon.
The street dancing will kick off at 1:00 p.m., turning left at C. Gallares Street, turning right at B. Inting Street, then proceeding right to CPG Avenue along City Square, turning right at J.S. Torralba near Plaza Rizal, making a left turn at E. Sarmiento fronting the Cathedral, turning left at J. A. Clarin Street leading towards the Tagbilaran City Hall Compound.
May 1 is the celebration of the feast of the city’s patron saint, Saint Joseph the Worker and kicks off the fiesta month of May in Bohol. (PIA-Bohol/ecb/with reports from FAG)
