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PIT SENYOR! The Sinulog
Festival is one of the most interesting times of the year for Filipinos;
especially for the devotees of the Holy Infant Jesus of Cebu.
Wherever you are in Cebu, you’ll
be reading and hearing the catchy phrase ‘Pit Senyor!”’all over. Pit is a
contraption of the Philippine vernacular ‘Sangpit’ meaning ‘to call upon’.
Senyor, on the other hand, is an endearment to the Holy Infant Jesus of Cebu.
Sinulog means ‘like water current movement’; it actually describes the dance
movement of the festival. Watch this video to get an impression of the
Sinulog Festival.
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The festival takes place
in Cebu, the second largest city in the Philippines. It takes place every third
Sunday of January but when you’re there, you’ll experience a weeklong
celebration involving just about everyone! This year, an estimated 3 million people
flocked to join Sinulog to give thanks and praise to the Holy Infant Jesus.
The Sinulog Festival: A Deep Sense of Faith
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But underneath the
merry-making and the bustling noise of the festival, lies a story that is
deeply rooted in the faith of its believers. The oral tradition tells that
locals would often see a curly-haired little boy covered with soot who would
roam around the place. This would happen at the time that the statue of the
Holy Infant Jesus would mysteriously disappear.
Accordingly, the
soot-covered boy would go about telling a dying person that he’s already healed
or fetching a priest to say a prayer for a troubled family but would
mysteriously disappear. And so the Holy Infant Jesus of Cebu is believed to be
miraculous; thus the huge number of devotees to this festival. The event
actually sees many Filipinos who have migrated to other countries, come home
for the celebrations.
Although admittedly, one
can only understand the deep sense of faith when one is present in the whole
course of the festivity.
The Sinulog Festival: Mass, Procession & Dance
The Sinulog festivity
features various traditional activities: other than holding a Catholic
Liturgical Mass, a Fluvial Procession for the veneration of the Holy Infant
Jesus on the eve of the 3rd Sunday is being joined by a huge number of locals
and tourists.
The highlight, however,
happens on the night after the procession when devotees sing and dance in front
of the church to sing their prayers for their loved ones. Just listening to the
songs that devotees offer with the well-wishes for the persons they love most
is enough to make a by-stander infected with the joyful beat and stomp along
with a happy heart!
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There are numerous
facets that one is yet to uncover in the Sinulog Festival, so once an outsider
gets there, an irresistible feeling of having to come back for the next year’s
festival is absolutely hard to ignore.
Hotel and Accommodation for Sinulog Festival
2019
Tourist will want to
stay in the hotels that have the best views of the Sinulog Festival 2019. You
are recommended, due to the thousands of people who will descend here to
celebrate this major holiday, to book your reservations many months in advance. Complete hotel list in cebu here
