“Flores de Mayo” end Prayer Vigil

I just got home from “Flores de Mayo” end Vigil. We went to a Shrine at Buhangin. As we arrive we joined the Holy Rosary Prayer. We did it from Joyful to the Glorious Mystery. In the Glorious Mystery I led 5th, this is the first time I led rosary in a public praying. I found this really good because everyone was cooperating and in their focus in praying that night. After Praying the Rosary, it was already 12 am so the prayer leader Sister Babes and her granddaughter led the “The Angelus”. After that, we settle the place where we will stay for the whole dawn, most of us got asleep except for my cousin who is a guy that is too shy to share the bed with us. I understand him because most of us are ladies and the bed doesn’t have enough space to be consumed for him to sleep.
Vigil, I think is that you stay awake while praying that is the opposite as what I experience their. I found it funny because most of time we do things not praying but talking and eating. This is the first time I joined a Prayer Vigil and the first time I got the impression that Filipinos sometimes may over say and under do things. I’m not sure if you can understand me. But I think Filipinos almost always do this not realizing thing that they must do with what they say. Though this was my impression, I still got the presence of their faith to our Lord and to Mama Mary who always stay and hear us with our prayers and journey to our daily living. Also I am not ready to take a vigil, because I am not used of not to sleep with serious praying. And I suggest that next time a Vigil should be scheduled and should be given right time of sleep and prayer. I am sure that everyone will be responsible enough to give their time in praying for the Lord and for Mama Mary.








