Carcar parish to hold Marian procession

THE Archdiocesan Shrine of St. Catherine of Alexandria Parish in Carcar City, Cebu will hold today, Oct. 26, for the second straight year a “grand” Marian procession around the city.

The procession, which will start at 5 p.m., is a culmination activity for the parish’s observance of October as the Month of the Holy Rosary, said Fr. Marlowe Patigdas, parochial vicar and worship committee head.

“The activity started in 2015 after a wide clamor by the devotees of the Blessed Virgin to give honor and also thanksgiving for all the graces received through the praying of the rosary,” he said in Cebuano.

Seventeen statues of the Blessed Mother under 17 different titles will join the procession around the city accompanied by a statue of her spouse, St. Joseph.

Fr. Patigdas said the procession is patterned after the annual Intramuros grand Marian procession where magnificent carrozas and images of the Virgin Mary is paraded around the walled city usually on the Sunday closest to Dec. 8, feast of the Immaculate Conception.

The Carcar procession, which will be preceded by the praying of the rosary at 3 p.m. and a holy mass at 3:30 p.m., will start at the parish grounds and will snake through the traditional procession route in the city.

This year’s Rosary Month theme is “Maria: Simbolo sa Kaluoy ug Sumbanan sa Kaputli diha sa Pamilya.”