Irish pubs open on Good Friday for 1st time in 90 years
DUBLIN — Guinness is flowing in Irish pubs on a Good Friday for the first time in 90 years. Lines of people were reported as pubs opened at 7 a.m.
DUBLIN — Guinness is flowing in Irish pubs on a Good Friday for the first time in 90 years. Lines of people were reported as pubs opened at 7 a.m.
NOTHING, it seems, escapes controversy. Even Jesus on the cross is not spared.
Every Good Friday, processions of religious images depicting Jesus Christ’s passion, crucifixion, death and burial are held in cities and provinces across the country.
For many Filipinos, Good Friday means cooking the staples of their Lenten family traditions. But for most Catholics, the day of abstinence can be quite a challenge. In observance of
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“Siete Palabras,” the traditional commemoration of Jesus’ last words on the Cross, held annually at the historic Santo Domingo Church in Quezon City on Good Friday, will have a woman
My youngest son, Arcus, City Bank executive, was going to be one of the Apostles in the Maunday Thursday ritual of the Washing of the Feet at Mount Carmel Church, New Manila. I had never been to a Holy Week church affair that didn’t bore me to death, but I was in my wheelchair, and sure of a seat, so I went.
I greet all of you this sunny Easter morning from my balcony in Sitio Remedios. This early, the folks from nearby towns are slowly filling up the beach to wash their sins away. This is the end of the rituals of Lent, after the sweaty Good Friday procession. They come to purify their souls from year- long of transgressions.
The Catholic Church had always discouraged the practice of penitential crucifixion. Having the human body mutilated and wounded is not sanctioned.
I have always been intrigued by the yearly spectacle of Filipino penitents being nailed on the cross on Good Friday in a small town in Pampanga. The practice was started by a faith healer in 1956.
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