Cebu City to adjust curfew hours for Misa de Gallo

CEBU CITY – Mayor Edgardo Labella said the local government will adjust curfew hours to pave the way for the dawn masses or Misa de Gallo.

Misa de Gallo starts on December 16 and is celebrated for nine straight days before Christmas.

“We will definitely adjust the hours covered under our curfew ordinance and in the curfew hours imposed by the IATF (Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases), more or less from 11 o’clock in the evening up to 3 o’clock dawn,” Labella said.

He added the local government will no longer require churchgoers to bring quarantine passes in attending the masses up to the Christmas vespers Eucharistic celebration.

Christmas Vespers also called Vespers of the Nativity is the first service of the feast. Sung on the afternoon or evening of December 24, it marks the transition from the 40 days of the Christmas fast to the joyous celebration of the birth of Christ in Bethlehem.

Labella said the most important thing to consider during the holy masses is the strict observance of the minimum health standards in the churches. He said the local government also welcomes the idea of holding an anticipated Misa de Gallo mass in the evening, so that Roman Catholic faithful who will attend the celebration will be spread out in two to three schedules.

The Archdiocese of Cebu may also consider having two dawn masses each day, an arrangement which, Labella said, will ensure observance of 50 percent-limit of the number of attendees in every church per celebration to prevent spread of Covid-19.

Labella said he will meet with the officials of the Archdiocese of Cebu before issuing an executive order outlining the policy of the city in the conduct of dawn masses. He also announced that the policy on strict border control concerning arrivals of people from other provinces has now been relaxed. “Other provinces are strict in their protocols. So from there, we can see no more reason to be strict with our borders,” he said. (John Rey Saavedra)

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