National Heritage Month revives traditional Santacruzan
By Brylle Tabora
This year’s National Heritage Month celebration will focus on the traditional Santacruzan and Flores de Maria.
This year’s National Heritage Month celebration will focus on the traditional Santacruzan and Flores de Maria.
Of all the things I learned from my mother, I think the best and most valuable is the power of prayer. We go through trials, and everyone has his or her own way of dealing with life’s challenges—in our family, it has always been through prayers, whether in Mass, rosaries, novenas or at the Blessed Sacrament.
A key Lenten program on Philippine TV, “Siete Palabras”—the communal recitation of the Seven Last Words of Jesus Christ, which are accompanied by reflections from priests and testimonies from lay people—is an experience Filipinos overseas surely miss during the Holy Week, said a Dominican priest who had directed the program for half a decade now.
As the clock strikes 12 on Monday, millions will pop champagne corks and light fireworks while others indulge in quirkier New Year’s rituals like melting lead, leaping off chairs or gobbling grapes.
Constructing a hanok, Korea’s traditional house, is painstaking. It requires attention to details, a faithful adherence to Confucian tenets, and regard for natural aesthetics. But through the years, the hanok had situated itself at the forefront of promoting Korea’s heritage and cultural uniqueness.
In the past, when a family decided to settle in another area, they didn’t need to hire movers. All the family had to do was gather the townsmen, who would move the entire house.
After Wang Lan delivered, she brought home a baby girl and her placenta, which she plans to eat in a soup – adopting an age-old practice in Chinese traditional medicine.
This is a true-to-life story—a multi-faceted experience which we can all learn from. Whenever there is an immediate health situation that needs attention, the tendency of most people is to reach out for over-the-counter medication and/or prescription drugs.
A prewar print of the Blessed Virgin in full regalia wearing her gold crown and in ceremonial robes, flanked by double columns with elaborately embroidered drapery and a cartouche of Philippine flora like the rosal, dahlia, gumamela and sampaguita framing her venerable image, epitomizes the passion many Filipinos have for Mary.
The Catholic Church had always discouraged the practice of penitential crucifixion. Having the human body mutilated and wounded is not sanctioned.
Eleven years ago, Farida Bano was circumcised by an aunt on a bunk bed in her family home at the end of her 10th birthday party.
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