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| Candles at St. John Bosco Parish, Santa Rosa |
If I am lucky and the candle drawers are newly replenished, I go for all the colors available, regardless of their symbolism. There is a poster enumerating the colors and what they symbolise. Red is for birthdays, anniversaries, and white for general intentions. I do not memorize what the other colors represent, as I light any or all available. I do know that the one most often out of stock or low in supply, is the one for finances.
Now that's not really a surprise, is it.
You can opt to donate cash in the adjoining box, and I do have an amount set per candle. From 1996 to 2007 I used to stop by to light candles at the St. Andrew parish in Bel-air, Makati, and pray to Our Lady of Czestochowa. Now, it is here, and not regularly. Lighting a candle and praying while gazing at its flame is meditative and brings me instant peace.
While being in the parish after the morning mass and when the place is empty makes me wary these days...(the new fences and gates have enhanced my insecurity), I find it is still quite neighborly and comforting enough to see the parishioners leaving or hanging around chatting.
Options for Bisita Iglesia in the vicinity are St. John Bosco in Bgy. Don Jose, and in through the Inchican Road (which intersects Laguna Blvd), is St. Benedict in Ayala Westgrove. I do not think the Oratory at Xavier School Nuvali nor the Chapel inside Montecito will be open to the public for this activity. Farther toward the Santa Rosa SLEX toll, past Greenfield is the Laguna Bel-air chapel. Another route is to go up towards Tagaytay, where starting in Lumil, Silang is the San Antonio de Padua church, relatively new, but already having seen many weddings. Indeed it was built for those, in my opinion. Angel Fields' Holy Family Pavilion is not a church, but the place is a retreat place, with cottages to rent.
And then of course, up toward Tagaytay for the rest of the churches.
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