MANILA, Jan. 5 (PIA) -- Starting Friday (Jan. 5), the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) will be deploying some 1,300 personnel for this year’s Feast of the Black Nazarene.
According to MMDA spokesperson Celine Pialago, the agency expects millions of devotees from various parts of the country to participate in the annual ‘Traslacion’ or the procession or passage of the Black Nazarene from the Quirino Grandstand to the Minor Basilica of the Black Nazarene in Quiapo.
The agency will assist the Manila City local government unit in ensuring crowd control, providing first aid measures and clearing operations of the routes where image of the Black Nazarene will pass through.
The Road Emergency Group will install tents at the Quirino Grandstand to provide medical assistance for the devotees who will participate in the annual ‘Pahalik’ and Black Nazarene procession.
Around 400 personnel of the MMDA will help the Manila Police District in ensuring crowd control during the procession.
The Sidewalk Clearing Operations Group and Metro Parkway Clearing Group will be cleaning up the debris left behind after the procession.
“We are advising devotees from the provinces to come at an earlier time,” Pialago said.
The ‘Pahalik’ of the Black Nazarene will start on January 8 while a midnight Holy Eucharistic Mass will be celebrated on January 9 by Quiapo Church rector Msgr. Hernando Coronel, while Archbishop of Manila Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle will give his homily.
The ‘Traslacion’ will start after the morning prayer at 5 am which will start from Rizal Park to the Quiapo Church. (EPC/JCP/PIA-NCR)
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