The Naga Metropolitan Cathedral naves and patio swarmed with white, blue and yellow colors as the whole Ateneo de Naga University communities of the high school and the colleges sponsored on the September 18, 2009 the afternoon novenario mass for the Lady of Penafrancia.

The 3:00 PM mass was celebrated by Jesuits with Fr. Jun Embile SJ as main celebrant. He was joined by Fr. Xavier Olin SJ, Vocation Director of the Society of Jesus, and Fr. Francisco Mallari SJ. In Fr.Embile’s homily, he presented the significance of the “swords” piercing the heart of the Sorrowful Mother to the congregation. The sorrows of Mary, according to him, serve as examples to us in following Christ.  

Before the Eucharistic celebration, the congregation prayed the eighth-day novena to the Lady in the Bicol dialect. It was concluded by the reverberating singing of the Salve Regina in the old Gregorian melody which the community rehearsed days before the novenario mass.