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Those unable to go in, however, may attend Mass outside the church.
“Only 400 devotees can be accommodated inside per Mass. There are 15 Masses, so (a) maximum (of) 6,000 will be accommodated,” Alex Irasga of the Traslacion 2021 Technical Working Group.
“You can attend Mass along the streets of Quezon Boulevard, Carriedo, Carlos Palanca, Plaza Miranda, and Plaza San Juan but there will also be regulations. Markers will be placed to maintain social distancing,” he added.
According to Irasga, there will be LED billboards on the streets in order for the faithful to still monitor the activities inside the church.
Our best Filipino books of 2020
Written by CNN Philippines Life Staff
Updated Dec 29, 2020 2:57:26 PM
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endIndex: We asked a few critics, writers, and publishers to give us some of their best or favorite reads of 2020.
Metro Manila (CNN Philippines Life) I’d like to think there are more Filipinos who read this year. The success of online book fairs such as Aklatan and the ease of having a book or books delivered to your home have certainly satiated our need to explore worlds elsewhere or understand the direness of our situation.
In Glenn Diaz’s essay on the function of fiction in the time of the pandemic, he says, “Fictional stories are most ‘instructive,’ I feel, in these moments of overlaps and slippages, when they approximate our ‘real’ experiences and perceptions just enough that we are jarred to take a second hard look. What fiction provides is not ‘information’ or ‘facts’ in the way that guidebooks or think pieces dis