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Growing up, our family spent all our Holy Weeks in Agoo, La Union. I recall Holy Saturdays by the Paratong coastline in Barangay Sta. Rita, with a sea of people having a grand time.
During Lent, we are challenged to become more creative in how we prepare seafood.
Christians worldwide began to observe Holy Week on Sunday with the celebration of Palm Sunday, the remembrance of Christ’s triumphant entry into Jerusalem before His suffering and death almost 2,000 years ago.
This coming Holy Week, as in previous holy weeks, the entire Christendom commemorates the passion, crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The focus will be on him alone and, to a minor extent, on the Blessed Virgin Mary.
HAPPY EASTER to all from down under! After much debate with myself on where to spend the Easter break, I finally made a decision. I decided to accompany my parents and youngest daughter Athena on a trip to the Gold Coast in Australia.
When Holy Week unfolds next week, all roads in Butuan City will lead to Mt. Mahayahay, where devotees troop to the Stations of the Cross in Barangay Anticala, 24 kilometers southeast of the city proper.
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.
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.
Those who stayed at home and endured the waterless Holy Week have all the reasons to go out tonight, even if it’s a Sunday.
In the Gospel narratives we read in the daily Masses, there are two emerging issues that set Christ on a...
