00:00Why is the 25th of May a prayer for you?
00:02A prayer?
00:04No, because when I was still a girl, I would always go to Mother Mary of Manawag.
00:12I would always go there and pray, even if I was alone.
00:17And then there was a time when I saw Father Shani.
00:21You know, Marcy, there were moments when I would just go to Manawag whenever I went there,
00:26whenever I was tired from work, whenever I didn't want to talk anymore, I just wanted to pray.
00:31I would go to Manawag, either early in the morning or at 6 in the evening, as long as my day was free.
00:37Anyway, to cut the long story short, Father Shani and I met,
00:42and then I invited him to say a mass every December 25.
00:50And then he gifted us, because I was a devotee of Mother Mary of Manawag back then,
00:55a Mary of Manawag from Vatican with a certificate from the Vatican.
01:02At that time, two decades ago, there were only two of us here in Manila.
01:10So Father Shani would always bless Mother Mary every December 25.
01:16So that became our tradition, because on December 25, he brought her to me.
01:20So when I got married, Father Shani was the one who moved to our house.
01:26But since Father Shani passed away, Father Caluag took responsibility.
01:32So it is very important that on December 25, Mother Mary would be blessed,
01:38and we would all be blessed.
01:40It is something very important.
01:44This is the tradition that I want our children to continue,
01:48up to our grandchildren.
01:50Because this is what I really started.
01:53So there's no exception?
01:54None.
01:55None.
01:56If there was one time that we did a mass at home, but not on December 25,
02:01it was because we had Christmas in Las Vegas before the pandemic.
02:06It was 2018, I think, or 2017.
02:08We had Christmas in Vegas.
02:10So we did a mass on December 30.
02:14But now, we returned it on December 25,
02:17because it was important.
02:21So far, I feel more panting when I enter the new year,
02:27that you were blessed.
02:30And what do you call it when there's no confession?
02:35General...
02:36Absolution.
02:37Absolution.
02:38Assembly in my mind.
02:39I know it's wrong.
02:41I know it's wrong, but I still said it.
02:43Absolution.
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