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Simbang Gabi

LA Catholics process into the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels for the 2024 Simbang Gabi kickoff Mass. (Victor Alemán)

Full schedule of 2025 Simbang Gabi celebrations in LA Archdiocese

Angelus Staff|Dec 4, 2025|6 Min Read

Parish volunteers Mila Villanueva, Helen Limbo, Yvonne Gandhi, and Carlito Rafanan pose after the early-morning Simbang Gabi novena at Holy Family Church in Artesia. (Kimmy Chacón)

LA parishes answer the early wake-up call for Simbang Gabi Masses

Kimmy Chacón|Dec 26, 2024|4 Min Read

Bishop Oscar Cantú of San Jose, Calif., blesses parishioners from various parishes in the diocese holding ornamental lanterns and globes called parols during a “Simbang Gabi” kick-off Mass at St. Julie Billiard Catholic Church in in San Jose, Calif., Dec. 14, 2024. Simbang Gabi is a nine-day series of Masses celebrated by Filipino Catholics leading up to Christmas Day. The parols are said to be symbols of the Star of Bethlehem and are used to lead the processions before Mass during the celebration. (OSV News photo/David Maung)

Filipino Simbang Gabi Masses more and more rooted in the US

Simone Orendain|Dec 16, 2024|4 Min Read

LA Catholics process into the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels for the Parade of Parols during the kickoff Mass to start the celebration of Simbang Gabi 2023. (Victor Alemán)

Schedule of events for Simbang Gabi 2024 in the LA Archdiocese

Angelus Staff|Nov 24, 2024|6 Min Read

LA Catholics process into the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels for the 2022 Simbang Gabi kickoff Mass. (Victor Alemán)

Simbang Gabi 2023 Mass schedule

Angelus Staff|Nov 29, 2023|6 Min Read

Simbang Gabi

The full guide to Simbang Gabi 2022 in LA

Angelus Staff|Nov 30, 2022|5 Min Read

Traditional Filipino lanterns known as “parols” are carried in before the 2019 Simbang Gabi Mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. (Victor Alemán)

The full guide to Simbang Gabi 2021 in LA

Angelus Staff|Dec 5, 2021|4 Min Read

Traditional Filipino lanterns known as “parols” are carried in before the 2019 Simbang Gabi Mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. (Victor Alemán)

LA’s Simbang Gabi novena to go outdoors – and back to its roots

Ann Rodgers|Dec 8, 2020|5 Min Read

The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels is decorated for Simbang Gabi in 2016. (Victor Aléman)

2020 Archdiocese of LA Simbang Gabi schedule

Angelus Staff|Dec 4, 2020|4 Min Read

Members of the Filipino community in Rome approach the altar in the Vatican's St. Peter's Basilica during the offertory procession Dec. 15, 2019, as Pope Francis celebrates the first of the "Simbang Gabi," a novena of nighttime or pre-dawn Masses in preparation for Christmas. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Pope Francis celebrates a Filipino Christmas tradition at the Vatican

Courtney Mares|Dec 16, 2019|3 Min Read

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