A special concelebrated mass called Misa Milenya -- will be said at the Quirino Grandstand in Manila’s Rizal Park (Luneta) on New Year’s eve.
Secretary Christina Garcia Frasco of the Department of Tourism (DOT), who chairs the Committee on the Turn-of-the-Century Celebration, said Jose Cardinal Advincula will officiate at the mass, scheduled for Dec. 31 at 5:00 P.M. An ecumenical prayer will precede the celebration of the mass to emphasize the ecumenical nature of the occasion, Araneta said.
Frasco said President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos, Jr., together with the First Lady, Liza, and other members of the First Family, will attend the holy mass.
Representatives of labor, women and children, fisherfolk, farmers, indigenous communities and other sectors will join the First Family in the offertory procession.
Bro. Mike Velarde, the founder of the El Shaddai DWXI Prayer Partners Foundation International, has announced that some 500,000 El Shaddai members will attend the millennium mass.
During the mass, seminarians, parish choirs and guest artists will render praise songs and traditional music. Meanwhile, bands from the Philippine Army and the Philippine Navy will also be on hand to provide music.
Frasco said Pope Francis’ message to the Filipino people will be read during the mass at the Quirino Grandstand as well as the selected Marian Shrines in various parts of the country.
At the Luneta and at least 10 shrines around the Philippines, there will be processions to be led by images of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
The concelebrated mass, which will project the Philippines as a pilgrimage destination in Asia, will be covered by the national multi-media with possible hook-up by satellite. It will also be recorded, with the videotape to be sent to the Sister Angelica Channel.
The religious activity has been arranged in cooperation with the Wells Spring of Life, Sacred Land of Asia, Marian Movement, Charismatic Movement of the Philippines, Confradia, and Association of Shrine Rectors and Pilgrimage Promoters of the Philippines.
The millennium mass is part of the Pistang Milenyo Filipino, the weeklong festivities prepared by the Estrada administration to welcome the new millennium.
The Philippines will welcome the new millennium with a nationwide kapit-bisig (linking of arms) on New Year’s Eve at Rizal Park and other parts of the country to demonstrate the unity of all Filipinos in the 21st century.
President Marcos will lead the symbolic kapit-bisig ritual, which will be replicated all over the country.
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