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What's in "Bato Balani" that makes devotees shed tears?

- The Ear -
January 15, 2012 | 12:00am

TOUCHING. A middle-aged madre (nun) was heard telling some students (girls) in a local private school: "There's something in the song 'Bato Balani Sa Gugma' that touches me so hard my tears would just fall as I sing it with the devotees of the Sto. Niño."

THEY TOO. There was a chorus of: "Me, too" and "Ako sad bitaw , Sister." An Augustinian priest told an Ear informer: "They are touched by the song, simple thou it is, because they feel it... They feel there is mutual love between them and the Holy Child."

AGED

AKO

AN AUGUSTINIAN

AUGUSTINIAN

BALANI

BATO BALANI SA GUGMA

FEEL

HOLY CHILD

SONG

STO
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