Devotees commemorate Thursday Aug. 10, the feast day of Our Lady of Buen Suceso (Our Lady of the Good Event), the revered patroness of Paranaque City.
Feast masses will be celebrated at 6 a.m., 12 noon and at 6 p.m. at the St. Andrews Cathedral, also known as the Diocesan Shrine of Nuestra Senora de Buen Suceso in Paranaque City.
A solemn procession will follow the 6 p.m. mass.
This year’s fiesta celebration coincides with the 398th enthronement anniversary of the revered image of Nuestra Senora del Buen Suceso and the 11th anniversary of the parish as a diocesan shrine.
Novena masses were held from August 1 to 9. Other fiesta activities held include the Maringal na Pagbibihis sa Birhen ng Buen Suceso (dressing up of vestments) on July 29, the blessing of the Buen Suceso Hall on Aug. 1, the Araw ng Kaparian (Day for Priests) on Aug. 4, the First Saturday dawn procession on Aug. 5, a parish recollection and a mass for the sick on Aug. 6.
The venerated wooden image of the Madonna and Child was enthroned at the St. Andrew’s Cathedral in 1625.
Devotion to Our Lady of Buen Suceso is actively being promoted by the diocese. Perpetual novena to Our Lady is held every Saturday at 6 a.m., 12 noon, and at 6 p.m. at the cathedral.
Masses for overseas Filipino workers and seafarers are held every second Saturday of the month, families in crisis every third Saturday, and the youth every fourth Saturday of the month.
Then Pope now Saint John Paul II granted the canonical coronation of the miraculous image as the patroness of the City of Paranaque on Sept. 8, 2000.