Feast of Saint Dominic on Saturday
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Roman Catholics will observe on Saturday (August 8) the feast day of Saint Dominic (Santo Domingo), the revered founder of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans) and the initiator of the beautiful prayer of the Holy Rosary.
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A Holy Mass will be streamed live the same day through the Facebook page of the Santo Domingo Church (National Shrine of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary), on Quezon Avenue, Quezon City after the praying of the holy rosary and the novena at 5:15 p.m.
Triduum masses were held in his honor at the shrine from August 5 to 7 at 6:45 p.m.
In view of the modified enhance community quarantine being observed in Metro Manila and upon the instructions of the Diocese of Cubao, the public are not allowed to attend the liturgical services.
Commemorative masses in honor of St. Dominic will also be celebrated by the Prelature of Batanes Babuyanes, the civil province of Batanes and the Babuyan Island group; and the Diocese of Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya.
Saint Dominic is the patron saint of astronomers and the Dominican Republic. On his feast day, the Church encourages the faithful to offer special prayers to the Blessed Virgin Mary and to recite the Holy Rosary, which the Spanish saint helped promote after it was given to him by the Holy Mother during an apparition in the year 1208.