{"id":84797,"date":"2017-01-11T22:53:49","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T03:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=84797"},"modified":"2017-01-12T00:38:50","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T05:38:50","slug":"dinagyang-festival-religious-activities-kick-off-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/01\/11\/dinagyang-festival-religious-activities-kick-off-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Dinagyang Festival religious activities kick off today"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_84798\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-84798\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/15032308_1309907462392962_8636513450125745021_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84798\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/15032308_1309907462392962_8636513450125745021_n.jpg\" alt=\"Religious activities to usher the 2017 Dinagyang Festival (Pictured) kicked off Wednesday with an early morning mass at the San Jose Church here in this city. (Photo: Dinagyang Festival\/ Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/15032308_1309907462392962_8636513450125745021_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/15032308_1309907462392962_8636513450125745021_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/15032308_1309907462392962_8636513450125745021_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/15032308_1309907462392962_8636513450125745021_n-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-84798\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Religious activities to usher the 2017 Dinagyang Festival (Pictured) kicked off Wednesday with an early morning mass at the San Jose Church here in this city. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dinagyangsailoilofestival\/\">Dinagyang Festival\/ Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>ILOILO CITY \u2013Religious activities to usher the 2017 Dinagyang Festival kicked off Wednesday with an early morning mass at the San Jose Church here in this city.<\/p>\n<p>Rev. Fr. Raymundo ALcayaga, Parish Priest, said that devotees are invited to join the various religious events in celebration of the feast of Se\u00f1or Santo Ni\u00f1o.<\/p>\n<p>The daily novena mass will end on January 19. The afternoon mass will be followed by a \u201cmini-sadsad\u201d or merry making, one of the innovations introduced by the parish this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are introducing mini sadsad that will last for five to 10 minutes,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>A grand merry making, however, will be held on January 21 after the 5:30 p.m. mass, which is expected to entice a huge numbers of devotees because of the miracles they experienced. This celebration is composed of prayers, dancing and chanting wherein praising Se\u00f1or Santo Ni\u00f1o.<\/p>\n<p>Another religious activity is the fluvial and foot procession in the afternoon of January 20. It will start at Fort San Pedro and culminate in front of the Bureau of Customs \u00a0in Muelle Loney area.<\/p>\n<p>Other activities include games, feeding and gift-giving for around 400 children from barangays surrounding the parish this January 14 and a medical and dental the next day.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ILOILO CITY \u2013Religious activities to usher the 2017 Dinagyang Festival kicked off Wednesday with an early morning mass at the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":84798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16,95],"tags":[13471,6052],"class_list":["post-84797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lifestyle","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-dinagyang-festival-2017","tag-iloilo-city","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84797","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=84797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}