{"id":3645,"date":"2016-12-13T11:51:23","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T03:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/?p=3645"},"modified":"2021-07-23T08:12:30","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T00:12:30","slug":"expats-guide-to-simbang-gabi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/2016\/12\/13\/expats-guide-to-simbang-gabi\/","title":{"rendered":"Expats\u2019 Guide to Filipino Christmas Tradition of Simbang Gabi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In the Philippines, they say that if you complete the nine morning masses leading up to Christmas, your wishes will come true. This tradition is called the <strong><em>Simbang Gabi<\/em><\/strong> or Rooster\u2019s Mass.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3646\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/12\/IMG_2694.jpg\" alt=\"img_2694\" width=\"602\" height=\"402\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>SIMBANG GABI. A tradition of the Filipinos upon anticipating Christmas.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Simbang Gabi\u2014sometimes also called <em>Misa de Gallo<\/em>, is a tradition observed in the Philippines wherein people go to mass as early as 4 a.m. from <strong>December 16 to December 25<\/strong> for a series of novena masses anticipating Christmas Day.\u00a0This Christmas tradition\u00a0is also celebrated at nighttime in churches to accommodate people who cannot attend the early morning mass.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Before the mass starts, the holy rosary is to be prayed. The mass usually focuses on anticipating Christmas, highlighting the birth of Jesus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">After the Eucharistic celebration, people then go to the streets to buy popular Christmas delicacies such as <em>puto bumbong <\/em>(purple rice roll steamed in bamboo tube topped with grated coconut and sugar) and <em>bibingka <\/em>(bread-like food cooked in clay pots).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"522\" height=\"358\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3647\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/12\/puto_bumbong_1.png\" alt=\"puto_bumbong_1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/12\/puto_bumbong_1.png 522w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/12\/puto_bumbong_1-300x206.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Puto Bumbong. Image grabbed from <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com.ph\/business-ideas\/homebased-business-idea-how-to-make-putobumbong\"><em>Entrepreneur Philippines<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"418\" height=\"349\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3648\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/12\/bibingka.jpg\" alt=\"bibingka\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/12\/bibingka.jpg 418w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/12\/bibingka-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 418px) 100vw, 418px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Bibingka. Image grabbed from <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/executivegourmet.ph\/bibingka-popular-filipino-delicacy-during-christmas-season\/\"><em>Executive Gourmet PH<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In other countries, there are also churches that do the tradition of Simbang Gabi for Filipinos abroad. This keeps the tradition alive even in places outside the\u00a0country\u00a0so Filipinos can still observe the tradition they used to do back here in the Philippines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Philippines, they say that if you complete the nine morning masses leading up to Christmas, your wishes will come true. This tradition is called the Simbang Gabi or Rooster\u2019s Mass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1730],"tags":[175,258,257,1646,256,1645,1647],"class_list":["post-3645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture-and-history","tag-christmas","tag-christmas-tradition-philippines","tag-misa-de-gallo","tag-misa-de-gallo-ph","tag-simbang-gabi","tag-simbang-gabi-in-the-philippines","tag-simbang-gabi-philippines"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3645"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8782,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3645\/revisions\/8782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}