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Maginhawa Community Pantry

Community Pantry | How It Got Started in the Philippines?

The initiative along Maginhawa Street, Quezon City, has been replicated in neighborhoods and barangays across the country. Patricia Non, a resident of Quezon City, had to temporarily close down her small business due to the series of lockdowns imposed in Metro Manila. But what started as a small gesture for others who are also grappling …

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Mayana plant

HOME GARDEN | This quarantine MADE some very nice gardens happen

Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic forced governments around the world to impose lockdowns. Home gardening has become a popular initiative among affected households, especially in the Philippines. Doing a Google trend analysis reveals a dramatic increase in interest in the search term “how to plant” at the beginning of the pandemic. Filipinos who were not …

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Easter sunday at lipa city

Easter Sunday

Easter (Linggó ng Pagkabuhay) is marked with joyous celebrations, the first being the pre-dawn rite called Salubong. The rite is customarily performed in the early hours of Easter before the first Mass. In some parishes, the rite is held earlier at midnight immediately after the long Easter Vigil proper, retaining the same format. The Easter Vigil mass is celebrated …

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Lingo ng palaspas Palm Sunday

Palm Sunday

Araw ng Palaspas The Tagalog word palaspas refers specifically to palm fronds that Filipinos intricately decorate and take to church on Palm Sunday (Lingo ng Palaspas). The blessing of palms and the intonation of the antiphon often occurs in the church’s parvis, its parking lot, or the town plaza, which usually is in front of or near …

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