Sambuklod Festival (Alay Kay San Lorenzo Ruiz)

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About Sambuklod Festival (Alay Kay San Lorenzo Ruiz)

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Sambuklod is an acronym which stands for “Sambayanang Buhay at Umuunlad Kasama si Lorenzo Ruiz na Dakila.” (A Community that is Alive and Growing along with the Companionship of the Venerable Lorenzo Ruiz).

“Buklod”, a Tagalog word which means “unite” is what the festival hopes and wants to achieve - UNITY amidst DIVERSITY as a new parish and as a new and emerging community with residents coming from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds.

The annual festivity is held at San Lorenzo Ruiz de Manila Parish in San Jose del Monte, the First City of the province of Bulacan. It starts with a Novenario (9 days Novena to San Lorenzo Ruiz ). The days that follow are filled with activities like variety shows, singing contests, "Palarong Pinoy", fireworks display, processions and a Grand Healing Mass. The festival culminates on the 4th Sunday of September with a concelebrated Mass and thereafter, a grand Parade and Street Dancing Competition.

From the birth and conception of Sambuklod in 2001 and how the festival evolved and was celebrated with a different theme each year, this is a pictorial showcase and highlight of the community’s joyful and colorful thanksgiving for the many blessings received through the intercessions of San Lorenzo, the first Filipino Saint; the saint who had been willing “to live and give a thousand lives for God.” And as many Filipino believers and devotees had put it in their own words, “Si San Lorenzo ang Santong Madaling Lapitan, Huwaran ng Mga Pinoy Kahit Saanman.”

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