july 14, 2010
By mrfdg1972
@mrfdg1972 (3237)
Philippines
July 7, 2010 10:31am CST
This is the Feast Day San Buenaventura, The Patron Saint for Our Children, w/c is also the Birthday of our youngest child, it is in my experience that as the Day approaches children are more prone to being sick, it could be the weather or Bad spirits or just coincidence, but to my knowledge This Holy Day we have to prepare PUTO and other pinoy made delicacies to drove those viruses, bacteria, whatever that inflict harm to the little ones, I could not explain further, but, this has been our tradition that was past on from our ancestors (just decades ago i think} my wife always prepare paladusdos ( i hope i get it right} and putong puti and ginataan Do you know about this date, do you celebrate it like we do..
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@allamgirl (2140)
• Philippines
7 Jul 10
i've never heard of that before. i remember when i was younger, i always get sick right around that date. my mom would always sick that i always get sick right before my birthday. mine's the 17th. i don't know if that's just coincidence or what. i'm not a kid anymore, but sometimes, i still do get sick when my birthday comes. :)
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@mrfdg1972 (3237)
• Philippines
7 Jul 10
Hi Allamgirl, i believe in the customs, these were past on to us from our Great great grand fathers, this day is also recognize by the churches( if you are a Roman Catholic)
@allamgirl (2140)
• Philippines
8 Jul 10
i am catholic, although not a devout one. maybe that's why i've never heard of this until now.
@mrfdg1972 (3237)
• Philippines
13 Jul 10
its going to be tomorrow if will attend mass tomorrow, i know its going to be the topic.
@ggeliee (51)
• Philippines
7 Jul 10
yeah, I remember that day. I saw a fanpage on facebook last day that says something like this "there's a mother's day, father's day, how about children's day" and I remember that we do have children's day, I just forgot what do we call it. Thanks to you, I remembered it, we call it San Buenaventura and my mom and my neighbors always prepare PUTO or KAKANIN, and we share it to each other, so we have different kinds of puto in our house courtesy of our neighbors. LOL
But that was before, we do not celebrate it anymore, I think even our neighbors don't celebrate it anymore. I don't know why, maybe it was suddenly forgotten since there are only few who celebrate it.
@mrfdg1972 (3237)
• Philippines
8 Jul 10
maybe you are not a kid anymore so nobody celebrates it anymore, but when you have your kids, you have to celebrate this day, You are right this is KId's Day
@ggeliee (51)
• Philippines
13 Jul 10
it's the feast day of San Buenaventura tomorrow. :) My mom reminded me that, when we were talking about my nephew and I found out that she still celebrate it every year, I am just the one who forgot it I think. LOL. Maybe because I really don't know the exact date of it.
@xtedaxcvg (3189)
• Philippines
7 Jul 10
I'm sorry but I'm not aware of this celebration. I know about San Buenaventura but I didn't that we celebrate a feast day for him like this. I guess the sickness are just coincidential, you might want to take them to the pediatrician.
@LetranKnight25 (33121)
• Philippines
7 Jul 10
We do have fiest of Sto. Nino here and there's always a parade of people and children with their small idol or statue of the sto nino and some even actually have dance with it for good luck or blessings. no, we don't do feastings since we don't have the money.
@mrfdg1972 (3237)
• Philippines
7 Jul 10
We also have that Its VIVA Sto. Nino. it is celebrated on the last day of MAY.
@dian21 (606)
• Philippines
8 Jul 10
Honestly this is my first time to learn about the Feast day of San Buenaventura and the association of being prone to sickness of the children. I'll just go to church maybe and if possible try to buy puto. There's no harm in trying to do it I guess. But I just hope that it's just a coincidence and just maybe because of the weather, like it's very hot in the morning, then suddenly it will just rain heavily in the afternoon. Thanks anyways.
