One beat. One dance. One vision.

FINALE AND PREVIEW. A finale to the Sinulog and a preview of sorts to the Asean summit, a production number that required close to 1,000 dancers fills the Cebu City Sports Center stage with a riot of colors. (Sun.Star Cebu/Alex Badayos)

When you celebrate this feast of feasts in Cebu City, share your stories and pictures with us. The Sun.Star website has devoted a whole section to the celebration and a special page for your experiences. E-mail your stories with your photos to sunnex@sunstar(dot)com(dot)ph and sunnex1@sunstar(dot)com(dot)ph. You can also MMS your photos to starts44field@photos.flickr.com. Please include your name and a description of your photo.

Enjoy the festival and Pit Senyor!

SINULOGBITS

Enthroned

Rediscovered by a soldier of Miguel Legaspi 44 years after Magellan gave the Sto. Niño to the natives, the image was enthroned in its shrine on April 28, 1565—thereafter celebrated every year until Pope Innocent XVIII moved the feast to the third Sunday of January, the Epiphany, to take it out of the season of Lent. The enthronement in a shrine, before the construction of the San Agustin church, was celebrated with a solemn procession, a fluvial parade and the Holy Mass said by Fr. Andres Urdaneta. (Sun.Star Weekend, 1999)

SINULOGTIPS
Helpful suggestions to make the most of your Sinulog celebration (click to read)
 
SCHEDULES
 
NOVENA MASSES
at the Basilica del Sto. Niño (click here for a diagram)
January. 5-13
TIME PILGRIM SPONSORS
5:30 a.m. City Parishes/Barangays
7:00 a.m. Business Sectors
8:30 a.m. Basic Education – Private
10:00 a.m. Parishes: District & Vicariate
11:30 a.m. Business Sectors: Banks
1:00 p.m. Government Offices: City and Provincial
2:30 p.m. Basic Education: Public by Districts
4:00 p.m. Colleges
5:30 p.m. Universities
7:00 p.m. Archdiocesan Organizations, Movements & Communities
 
January 5 – FIRST DAY
DAWN PROCESSION – WALK WITH JESUS
TIME  
4:00 a.m. Assembly Time – Fuente Osmeña
4;30 a.m.

Foot Penitential Procession Jones Ave.– Basilica
– Bring with you Rosaries, candles & statues of St. Niño

5:30 a.m. First Mass
Installation of Hermano
Mayor & Hermana Mayor 2006
 
January 6 – SECOND DAY
TIME  
2:30 p.m. Opening Salvo Sinulog Foundation
 
January 7 – THIRD DAY
TIME  
8:30 p.m. Barangay Night/Halad sa Barangay
 
January 8 – FOURTH DAY
TIME  
8:30 a.m. Children’s Mass
 
January 13, FRIDAY – NINTH DAY
DAWN PROCESSION – WALK WITH MARY
TIME  
4:00 a.m. Assembly Time – Fuente Osmeña
4:30 a.m. Foot Penitential Procession Jones Ave. – Basilica
- Bring with you Rosaries, candles & statues of the B.V.M.
  Holy Masses & Novenas – 5:30, 7:00, 10:00 11:30 a.m. – 2:30, 4:00, 5:30, 7:00 p.m.
7:00 a.m. Misa de Translacion after which follows the motorcade of the Pilgrim Sto. Niño – to Mandaue City Parish Church of St. Joseph
1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. District Teachers Traditional Halad
7:00 p.m. Reenactment of First Wedding
8:30 p.m. Dep Ed Night Cebu City
 
January 14 – SATURDAY – VESPERAS
TIME  
5:30 a.m. Visayan Mass
7:00 a.m. Mass for the OFW Families
7:00 a.m. Fluvial Procession – Ouano Wharf – Mactan Bridge Lapulapu, Pasil – Pier 1
9:30 a.m. Re-enactment of the Arrival of the Image
10:00 a.m. Re-enactment of the First Mass, Baptism
1:30 p.m. Solemn Procession of the Miraculous Image
6:00 p.m. High Mass
8:00 p.m. Religious “Sinulog” Dance for all with candles
 
January 15 – SOLEMNITY: FIESTA SEÑOR DAY
TIME
4:00 a.m. Mañanita Mass Solemn Concelebrated
6:00 a.m. Pontifical Mass with His Eminence Cardinal Vidal
8:30 a.m. Recollect Fathers
 
Masses every one and a half hours follow.
 
January 16 – MONDAY – THANKSGIVING DAY
MISAS REZADAS – 5:00 A.M. – 6:00 A.M. – 7:00 A.M.
TIME
8:00 a.m. Requiem Mass for the OFW Apostleship of the sea (Seafarers)
10:00 a.m. Thanksgiving Mass traditionally offered by San Nicolas Parish
2:00 p.m. Thanksgiving Mass for Sinulog Foundation
4:30 p.m. Requiem Mass for the Deceased Members of the Cofradia del Sto. Niño
5:30 p.m. Healing Mass for the sick & the aged.
 
January 20 – FRIDAY “HUBO”
TIME  
4:00 a.m. High Mass
 
Masses follow same as on Fridays.
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