Sunday Mass in Quiapo Church Manila

 

It was 3PM in the afternoon to prepared my self because me and my whole family going to Quiapo Church to attend the first mass in the evening and we arrived at 5PM. I feel the peacefulness when I entered the church, of course the first thing that I do is to talk to God saying that I am grateful to received a good blessings from Papa God . After we prayed we went on the side of the church to light the candle. And 6PM the mass has started by 7PM in the evening mass ended. 

Seen with its unique construction, the church is also distinctive with the different religious statues that are present in it. Quiapo Church's façade is distinctive with twisted columns on both levels. The Corinthian columns of the second level has a third of its shaft twisted near the base, while the upper portion has a smooth surface. The topmost portion of the four-storey belfries are rimmed with balustrades and decorated with huge scrolls. The tympanum of the pediment has a pair of chalice-shaped finials, and towards the end of the raking cornice, urn-like vases mark the end of the pediment. A quatrefoil window in the centre of the pediment was sealed up in the late 1980s and replaced with a relief of the crossed keys and tiaraof the pope – a symbol of its status as a minor basilica.With its recent renovation, only the façade, the dome, the transept, and the apse retained the classic design.

The masses go to Quiapo Church in downtown Plaza Miranda and drop a visit to the Nuestro Señor Jesús Nazareno (a dark figure of Christ carved by a Mexican artist from black wood) whose image, reputedly miraculous, was brought to the country in a Spanish galleon in the 17th century. Quiapo Church holds a novena every Friday, Quiapo Day, in honour of the Black Nazarene, and is attended by thousands of devotees. A note is sounded before the novena begins as the devotees to the Black Nazarene troop in and emit their strings of petitions. can encounter the traditional folk Catholicism of Filipinos when they all climb the narrow flight of stairs to kiss the Señor's foot or wipe it with their handkerchiefs they use every time they visit.