CBCP adjusts ‘Simbang Gabi’ schedules

The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) has released guidelines  for  Churches to observe during the  celebration of Simbang Gabi or pre-dawn Masses in accordance with existing health protocols required by the national and local government units (LGUs).

“The celebration of Christmas  may be different this year. We will not have the same frenzy and stressful preparations that we had before the pandemic. But we pray and help our faithful to see the heart and the essence of the season in the simple, sober, silent but the strong and loving truth of the God who comes to us in Jesus’ incarnation,” said Davao Archbishop Romulo Valles, CBCP president, in his directive on the celebration of these Masses.