House blessing · New home · Cavite
The Ramos Household
Bare walls, full table · June 2026 · 30 guests
“We have no sofa yet. We have a house.”
The keys came in April. The blessing waited until June, because the whole point was to do it with everybody there, and everybody has shifts.
Room to room
The priest went through every room including the bathroom and the small back area that is, for now, a bedroom and a storage room at the same time.
The table
One table, borrowed chairs, and food that arrived in the hands of almost everyone who came, because that is how it works and nobody needed to be asked.
What they said
- “They fed thirty people in a house with one table and no curtains. That is a home already.” — Tita Baby
- “Eleven years. I remember when they started saving.” — Nanay Cora
- “I claimed the back room. They said no.” — Cousin Jek
- “Next year, a sofa.” — Rina Ramos
The palette
The team
A small day, run the same way as a big one — who was coming, who was bringing what, and one link so everybody went home with the photos of a house that had been eleven years coming.