Simbang gabi art

Many celebrate the Nativity—and the New Year—in festive, sometimes whimsical, ways.

For that Simbang Gabi moment, these are the must-visit churches in Manila with your loved ones. I love love these churches because there is a food stall with the traditional eats puto bumbong and bibingka available right after the mass. It's such a treat to sleep in these days with the cool breeze of December mornings coming through the walls of our rooms. But many Filipinos would surely brave the cold temperature to attend a mass at four in the morning once the Simbang Gabi season begins…

Simbang Gabi (Midnight Mass)

Midnight Mass

Surviving a Filipino Christmas at home is just a fraction of what else goes on outside. When its Christmas time in the Philippines, it is an adventure to go out.

These are paintings I made last year for a Christmas and New Year motion graphic for Knowledge Channel, an education-based network in the Philippines. Description credits: ABS-CBN

From the origin of parol and the story of the Philippines' first Christmas cards, here are some fascinating facts you may or may not have heard about Christmas in the Philippines.

Misa de Gallo; Philippines; begins December 9; Also called Simbang Gabi. Denotes the beginning of the Christmas season in Catholic parts of the Philippines; each day begins with church bells breaking the night silence to call people to dawn Mass; the Misa de Gallo period concludes with the midnight Mass on Christmas Eve.

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