My take on people, places, events and other things
As we celebrate Easter, may we realize
Only God can fill the emptiness of our lives. Let us return everything to God – with sorrow for our sins, holy fear, humility, hope and joy.
Rejoice.
Christ is Risen!
Alleluia.
Today is Good Friday. Let us reflect on the meaning of this day.
Visita Iglesia and the Way of the Cross
During Lent, we observe a Catholic tradition of visiting various churches to recite and meditate on the Way of the Cross, a practice more popularly known as Visita Iglesia. We normally visit seven churches and recite two stations of the cross in each church, although there were years when we covered more tha seven churches.
Visita Iglesia is not just a religious experience. It also provides a historical and cultural perspective esepcially if you are visiting old churches.
In today's post. l list combinations of Churches you may want to consider during your Visita Iglesia this Maundy Thursday. Have a good day!
Visita Iglesia on Foot
If you live in one of the neighborhoods around the Old Manila area, you can just walk around these set of churches. Of course, make sure you have a good pair of walking shoes, umbrella or hats, drinking water, hand towels and an extra shirt or two. You can cover at least seven of these churches within one day. Watch out and observe the various Hijos de Nazarenos doing their Visita Iglesias in these churches during Maundy Thursday. These churches are:
The Pasig-Mandaluyong Churches
These are the set of churches near our place of residence. After visitng our Parish Church, San Antonio Abad, the route and set of churches to visit are largely determined by the availability of parking spaces near the church grounds. But we normally select from among the following churches, chapels and oratories:
The C5-Katipunan-Roxas Boulevard Set:
The East Road Churches of Laguna and Rizal:
If you have a whole day to spare and do not mind driving around the towns of the lake's shorelines, you may want to try the various churches around the Laguna lake. You have 3 options on where to start the drive tracing the twons around the lake (1) the SLEX-Calamba route; (2) the Taytay-Angono route; or, (3)start with Antipolo Church (which is strictly not within the East Road), drive to Teresa and then Morong. In our case, we avoided the traffic at the Angono stretch and took the Antipolo Church as our first stop. From early morning to around 8pm during one Maundy Thrusday, we managed to visit the following churches:
And here are pictures of these Laguna-Rizal churches in Maundy Thursday, 2010
In future blogs, I will post more pictures of churches that I have been to, as soon as I will find them from my various picture files.
Today is Ash Wednesday.
It is a holiday of obligation and the faithful are supposed to attend masses . During the masses, ashes are imposed on the foreheads of the faithful . The priest or the officiating layperson marks the forehead of each participant with black ashes in the sign of the cross, which the worshipper traditionally retains until it wears off. Made by burning palms, the ashes are a reminder of mortality, a symbol of spirituality and a sign of repentance at the start of the season leading to Easter.
As Wednesdays is the first day of the Lenten Season, a time when many Christians prepare for Easter by observing a period of fasting, repentance, moderation, spiritual discipline and giving.
Round 1 Goes to the Defense, but CJ Corona is Badly Bruised
Fourteen days have passed and the prosecution team is about to wrap up the presentation for Article 2. Thus far, these are my impressions of the first 14 days of the impeachment proceedings:
