Virgen del Carmen - Feastday 2011

The Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Carmel Monastery

The Our Lady of Mt. Carmel is one most revered Marian titles in Lipa. Her devotion is so popular that hundreds of people flock to her Shrine in the Carmel Monastery in Lipa. The devotion has been deep within Lipeños even during pre-war times.

Seal of the Carmilite Order

Sadly there are no accounts on what happened to the original venerated image in the Cathedral, it somehow got loss and no trace was found after the war. On the other hand the devotion is still strong at present.

The processional image

The Apparition site of Mary Mediatrix of All Grace

The mass started with the blessing of the brown scapulars followed by the afternoon Mass and ended with the procession around the Poblacion of Lipa. The procession today is a bit different during the Colonial or the Coffee Bloom years in Lipa. Back then the carroza would stop in a certain house, there a maiden would sung the Ave Maria in Latin just like one describe by Rizal in Noli Me Tangere but at least we today can still see this processions.