The Easter holiday is over. Holy Week came in a blaze of heat and ended with sudden downpours of...
When the children were growing up, Holy Week nearly always took us to the beach. It was not exactly the kind of setting conducive to the spiritual contemplation the occasion called for, but it provided a most welcome family break from life’s stresses and drudgeries.
All year round, I try my best to expose my children to our faith and teach them as many age-appropriate lessons as I can.
A walk in and around Daet, capital of Camarines Norte, is a stroll through history, a heritage mini-tour. There are historical churches, museums, landmarks and monuments to the past.
HOME for a few days last Holy Week for some commitments in Manila, Miss Universe Pia Wurtzbach found time to chill with good friends, particularly Harley Tan and Nina Almoro, in the Makati hotel she was staying.
The upcoming Holy Week is a time for rest. But if you’re in the mood for going out, better find another place as some of the malls in Metro Manila will be closed for the Lenten break.
Even the not-very-religious Catholic does Visita Iglesia during Holy Week. Visiting seven churches on Holy Thursday, after the Holy Eucharist is brought to the “altar of repose” by the priest during the procession inside the Church, is a tradition observed by most Catholics.
At UP High in Padre Faura, after the war, we read Shakespeare, notably Hamlet, which, like all the bard’s plays, teems with memorable passages like the soliloquies and lines from the dialogue, as when Hamlet tells his stoic friend, “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” This, after the ghost scene.
Today we remember the trials and sufferings of our Lord Jesus Christ. Repent and try to wash ourselves of our sins, and abstain from meat as sacrifice.
The Easter Sunday of the Lord's Resurrection, as the greatest and most important Christian feast, is a Day of Obligation for all Christians. Our Lord Jesus' rising from the dead reveals to all believers the deepest meaning and purpose of the Christian's faith in the One who came to destroy death and give life to the world.
