{"id":145314,"date":"2018-01-10T22:49:01","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T03:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=145314"},"modified":"2018-01-10T22:49:01","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T03:49:01","slug":"papal-nuncio-wanted-to-see-traslacion-devotees-tagle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/10\/papal-nuncio-wanted-to-see-traslacion-devotees-tagle\/","title":{"rendered":"Papal Nuncio wanted to see &#8216;Traslacion&#8217; devotees: Tagle"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_98132\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-98132\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/15940894_205210636551724_4665667705393288195_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-98132\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/15940894_205210636551724_4665667705393288195_n.jpg\" alt=\"FILE: Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle  (Photo: Archdiocese of Manila - Office of Communications\/Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"638\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/15940894_205210636551724_4665667705393288195_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/15940894_205210636551724_4665667705393288195_n-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/15940894_205210636551724_4665667705393288195_n-768x510.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-98132\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle (Photo: Archdiocese of Manila &#8211; Office of Communications\/Facebook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong> \u2014 Apostolic Nuncio to the Philippines, Archbishop Gabriele Giordano Caccia, wanted to see the Filipinos\u2019 devotion to the Black Nazarene, that was why he attended Tuesday\u2019s midnight mass at the Quirino Grandstand, said Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis first interest, since he is new here, (is) to know the Filipinos and because he has heard so much about the devotion of the Filipinos&#8230; So he wanted to see,\u201d Tagle said in an interview Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The cardinal said that the Vatican ambasssador was amazed upon seeing the thousands of devotees who attended the Eucharistic celebration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI told him this is just for the Mass. The procession will be conducted later.\u00a0<em>Ang sabi nya, \u2018Wow ang daming tao!\u2019<\/em>(He said, \u2018Wow, so many people!\u2019)\u00a0<em>Ang sabi pa niya,<\/em>\u00a0(He added,) \u2018Look at how the faith of the simple people could inspire us,\u2019\u201d Tagle said.<\/p>\n<p>The head of the Archdiocese of Manila was the celebrant of this year&#8217;s Traslacion Mass.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Tagle said that people should be very cautious in commenting on the reported chaos during the procession.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Yung sinasabing magulo, medyo mag-iingat din tayo sa ganung<\/em>\u00a0comment.\u00a0<em>Kasi kapag andun ka sa loob, \u2018yung mga<\/em>\u00a0<em>nagpuprusisyon hindi naman sila naguguluhan e.<\/em>\u00a0(What they call chaotic, let\u2019s be careful about commenting on that, because it is not chaotic for those who joined the procession.) It\u2019s all part of the experience,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you have millions,\u00a0<em>tapos ang<\/em>\u00a0goal\u00a0<em>ay hindi naman \u2018yung maglakad kundi \u2018yung<\/em>\u00a0to come close dun sa imahe,\u00a0<em>talagang medyo may makikita ka na<\/em>\u00a0movements (and your goal is not to walk but to come close to the image, then you would really see movements),\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The procession ended 3 a.m. Wednesday when the image of the Black Nazarene reached its destination, the Quiapo Church, 22 hours and 19 minutes after it left the Quirino Grandstand.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said the event was generally peaceful.\u00a0<em><strong>(PNA)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2014 Apostolic Nuncio to the Philippines, Archbishop Gabriele Giordano Caccia, wanted to see the Filipinos\u2019 devotion to the Black &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":98132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[42699,13126,35437],"class_list":["post-145314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-archbishop-gabriele-giordano-caccia","tag-black-nazarene","tag-papal-nuncio","mauthors-ferdinand-patinio","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}