Now that the Lenten season is here, Catholics are urged to abstain from meat every Friday as a way of doing penance. Some may question if this would really constitute penance since abstaining from meat may not be a real sacrifice. Eating seafood, such as lobsters, crabs and prawns, is far from being a deprivation, after all, and if one is a vegetarian, one abstains from meat all the time anyway.
“This great season of grace is your gift to your family to renew us in spirit…”—from Preface of Lent II, The Spirit of Penance
Since 2005, Artery Manila has been presenting the “Kristo Manila” Lenten exhibitions.
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.
The Lenten season reminds us of the suffering of Jesus Christ. He endured much pain to redeem us all. This Lenten season, we are all called to give something up for Him.
It’s that time of the year again when the Lenten days leading up to Easter call for special attention to cleansing the self.
The dilemma of finding the freshest seafood to whet the appetite of the entire family or barkada is common during Lent, something which Blackbeard's Seafood Island wants to be the answer to.
Malolos, Bulacan, has been the venue of Salvador Ching’s “Kristo” exhibitions since 2001. He invited fellow artists to the exhibit which featured artworks serving as their reflections on the passion of Christ.
Catholics tired of fish on Friday can enjoy a Lent-friendly smorgasbord in Nicaragua, where soups made with iguana or armadillo are served with a healthy portion of bull testicles.
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.
