It was a successful celebration of the annual cultural and religious festival of prayer-dance honoring Señor Santo Niño or the Child Jesus. Filipinos and friends attended the event from all over the Catholic communities in the Diocese of Limburg.
The celebratin started with a Novena to the Sto Nino, followed by the Eucharictic celebration and then the cultural dance performed by the different communities from Frankfurt, Limburg and Wieswaden.
One of the great feasts at the beginning of new year that all Filipinos celebrate with joyful festivities including those living and working abroad is the Feast of Sto. Niño. In Germany, it has been a tradition to celebrate the feast with the Sinulog Festival. The festival is considered to be the first and the biggest festival in the Philippines, with every celebration of the festival routinely attracting around 1 to 15 million people all over the world every year. Aside from the religious aspect of the festival, Sinulog is also famous for its street parties, usually happening at night before and at the night of the main festival. The festival is nicknamed the "Grandest Festival in the Philippines."
Join and celebrate with us on 15th of January 2023 at 13:00
You are invited to pray in our church for the people of Ukraine 🇺🇦 for peace around the world.
Since Ash Wednesday, a Wailing Wall inside St. Ignatius church was built to condemn violence, war and injustice. Here you can write your request or lament, your concern or your hope on a piece of paper and place it in a hole of the wall. You are also welcome to light a candle or lay flowers.
A large peace candle, created by the youth, was lit during the parish service and now burns continuously on the Wailing Wall.
The Wailing Wall is open to all people during the opening hours of the St. Ignatius Church (Daily from 9:00Uhr - 21:00Uhr).
After a month long, daily praying together the Holy Rosary via ZOOM, the FCC Frankfurt celebrated the end of the Holy Rosary month on October 31,2021. A Holy Mass was held at the St. Ignatius Church in Frankfurt. Prior to the High Mass, the holy Rosary was prayed. Presider during the High Mass was Father Francis Ofrancia, Chaplain of the Filipino Catholic Communities in the Diocese of Limburg. He was joined by Father Gil Donayre, SJ, a Filipino priest who is doing his Doctorate in Sankt Georgen.
Here are the owners and winners of the 2021 Easter Egg Decorating Contest. According to the tally of the judges, First prize is Egg #4 created by AC Lozanes, the second prize is Egg #5 created by Mac and Rafa Marasigan and the third prize goes to Egg #6 created by Gianna Fajardo. Egg#2 created by DJ Agoncillo won the the Facebook Most Poplular. Congratulations to the winners!
Due to the restricted rules recently imposed by the government, we will again celebrate our annual tradition of easter egg making virtually. Last year, we had the most-liked decoration wins, but this year, entries will be judged by a committee based on creativity.
Pope Francis offered a festive Eucharistic celebration on March 14, Sunday in St. Peter´s Basilica with the Filipino Community in Rome to commemorate the 500 years anniversary of Christianity in the Philippine archipelago. In his homily, he thanked the Filipino Catholic migrants not only in Rome but also in many other countries of the world.
An International Way of the Cross was held in Liebfrauen Church on March 12, 2021. Among the partipants were representatives from the Filipino Catholic Community in Frankfurt. The Way of the Cross is an annual gathering of Catholics of other mother tongues. This has become a Lenten Tradition which started in 2016.
We Filipinos express and demonstrate our faith in God through our many culturally rich traditions, feasts, and devotions. Inside our churches are different images and statues. Not ony statues of Jesus and Mary are present, but also of our favourite saints. This is how we live and practice our faith as Filipinos.
Christmas for Filipinos especially for those living and working abroad will not be complete without the tradition of Simbang Gabi being celebrated from December 16-24.
