Services
Thousands converge on Saturdays and Sundays to pray for their intentions, hear Mass, pray the Rosary, offer flowers, light candles, buy religious articles, have religious articles or vehicles blessed, get Holy water, and join in the activities for the day or the season. The peaks of the pilgrimages are during the successive Lenten and Easter seasons, the month of May, and the month of October – the month of the Holy Rosary.
The 4 a.m. short procession and dawn rosary every first Saturday before the 5 a.m. Mass is well-attended by regular pilgrims mostly from Metro Manila and from Regions I (Ilocos), II (Cagayan Valley), and III (Central Luzon). (These first Saturday rites are pursuant to the Communion of Reparation on the First Saturdays requested by The Blessed Virgin Mary in her third apparition to the three children at Fatima on July 13, 1917 for the preservation of world peace.) There are staunch devotees coming from Metro Manila who remarkably hear Mass every week.
The blessing of religious articles and vehicles is performed at the back of the church grounds after every Mass. Holy water is also dispensed here free to those with receptacles.
Any of the Masses in the regular schedule may be offered for personal petitions and thanksgiving. Masses for the dead may be offered on any Friday except on Good Friday. These may be done through the parish office at the right side of the main entrance of the church; or at the back of the church beside the religious store at the entrance of the Candle Gallery. Mass offerings and donations may be done on-line through its website: www.manaoagshrine.org.
People who cannot come to the shrine may listen to Radyo Dominiko ng Manaoag 102.3FM which is likewise accessible through the Shrine of Our Lady of Manaoag .
The Pilgrim Image of Our Lady of the Rosary of Manaoag has been visiting parishes in the Philippines. Details of how to request for its visit and the conditions are at its website: Shrine of Our Lady of Manaoag .
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