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Tag: Holy Week

  • Floats with life-sized wooden statues are prepared for the Good Friday procession at the front yard of a church in Dona Remedios Trinidad, Bulacan
    Categories Commentary

    Holy Week then and now

    By Tita C. Valderama  |  Apr 10, 2023 11:30 AM

    What can the Catholic Church do to preserve the solemn observance of the Holy Week and attract more people to participate in the Lenten activities?

    Catholic Church, Holy Week

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    Categories Arts & Culture Editor's Pick

    Remembering human rights abuses on Holy Week

    By Photos by Daniel Abunales, text by Luz Rimban  |  Apr 14, 2017 8:56 PM

    While the country marked Holy Week, members of human rights groups called on relatives of those killed in the government’s war against drugs to share their stories as a way of easing the pain of loss.

    EJKs, FIND, Holy Week

  • Categories Top Stories Yahoo

    Lenten procession more than just a spectacle

    Apr 19, 2014 1:02 AM

    Text and photos by KIERSNERR GERWIN TACADENA BALIUAG, Bulacan–This town is hosting what could be the country’s biggest Lenten procession consisting of more than 100 religious statues riding on carriages or carrozas. But concerns are being raised that the occasion may have evolved from being a form of catechism and service to the Church, into […]

    Baliuag, Bulacan, Holy Week, Lenten procession

  • Categories Arts & Culture Yahoo

    Holy Week in Mt Banahaw: Mysticism meets Catholicism

    By PATRICIA ISABEL GLORIA  |  Apr 18, 2014 10:19 PM

    Around this time each year, hundreds of devotees flock to Barangay Sta. Lucia in Dolores, Quezon on the slopes of Mount Banahaw to celebrate Holy Week.  Here, mysticism meets Catholicism, as members of various sects engage in what a local priest calls traditional spiritual practices at the height of the town’s Lenten rituals.

    Banahaw, Catholicism, Dolores, Holy Week, Lent, Quezon

  • Categories Top Stories Yahoo

    Batangas women bear ‘the cross’ to save loved ones

    Apr 18, 2014 7:07 PM

                    Text and photos by JANE DASAL NASUGBU, Batangas—At the break of dawn on Good Friday, Celilia Zafra donned a black dress and shrouded her face with a black cloth. Then she walked to a place called “putol na ilog” along the seashore of Wawa where devotees who […]

    Batangas, Catholicism, Holy Week, Lent, Nasugbu, Philippines

  • Categories Arts & Culture

    Scenes from a flagellation

    Mar 31, 2013 3:46 AM

    Text and slideshow by VINCENT GO PAOMBONG, Bulacan—Thousands of tourist and spectators have once again flocked to the quiet village of Kapitangan in this town, 47 kilometers north of Metro Manila, to witness the bloody spectacle of flagellation and crucifixion that plays out here each year. Penitents lashed their backs using whips with wooden flails […]

    Crucifixion, Holy Week, Paombong

  • Categories Arts & Culture Top Stories

    From ashes to life

    Apr 14, 2012 11:32 AM

    By AMIEL MARK CAGAYAN
    HOLY Week, which commemorates the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, is a sacred tradition for Christians. It takes deeper meaning in a community where majority of the population belong to the Islam faith.

    Holy Week, maguindanao, Upi

  • Categories Arts & Culture Top Stories

    Surviving the mob in Boracay

    Apr 13, 2012 7:27 AM

    Text and photos by CARLO FIGUEROA
    Traffic jams, air pollution from tricycle fumes, restaurants big and small packed to the brim, and the sheer number of visitors jostling for space in a cramped island were definitely not synonymous to rustic images beach life usually conjures. But such was the daily scene in Boracay over the Easter break.

    Bpracay, Caticlan, Holy Week, Kalibo, tourism, tourists

  • Categories Photos Top Stories Video

    Devotees draw blood and sweat in Kapitangan

    Apr 08, 2012 9:40 AM

    Text, photos, and video by VINCENT GO
    This year, five men and a woman were crucified, among them 51-year-old Sonny Bautista who has been mute since childhood. Bautista hails from Hagonoy town and has been coming to Kapitangan to be crucified for 14 years now.

    Catholic, Holy Week, PWD, Self-flagellation

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