REORIENTING THE WAY PEOPLE COMMOMERATE IT

 

In the late January , the Vigan City Fiesta is held in tribute of  the city’s patron saint,St. Paul the Apostle. This fiesta is being celebrated by the presence of street dancing, carnivals, food fairs, and man y more that adding to the attraction of this UNESCO World Heritage City.  

Festival midst in this situation should or should not be canceled as a pandemic explore the world since festival are fated to be celebrated by people. Some events must be call off due to the spread of this disease and it might affect the growth of the existing number of cases. Notwithstanding this crisis affect all the events, Vigan still celebrated fiesta in an operative way. Online fiesta is being applied in this kind of circumstances and it provides satisfaction or happiness to people. Some people celebrated the fiesta by praying. “Everything became quite unreal finally and it seemed as though nothing could have any consequences.”― Ernest Hemingway

Prayer is the best way to celebrate feast days to give appreciation to the saint. This pandemic tells us that there’s another way to bring joy and happiness to the world. "In the darkest times of your life, your praise to God should be the loudest. Let the enemy know you're not afraid of the dark." ~ Stormie Omartian

 

REFERENCES:

Stormie Omartian (2012). “The Prayer That Changes Everything®”, p.152, Harvest House Publishers
 Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises march 04, 2019

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