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== | ==Holy Week celebrations around the world== | ||
*Source: http://www.manilatimes.net/index.php/ | *Source: http://www.manilatimes.net/index.php/opinion/columnist1/20339-holy-week-celebrations-around-the-world | ||
* | *Saturday, March 31, 2012 | ||
:by : | :by : Atty. Dodo Dula | ||
Tomorrow, Palm Sunday marks the beginning of Holy Week. Lasting until Easter Sunday, the Holy Week will see millions of Filipinos trooping to churches and observing the rituals associated with this important religious event. | |||
There is the Palm Sunday Mass, where devotees bring palaspas (palm leaves) to be blessed by the priest. After the service, the palm leaves are taken home and placed above doorways and | |||
windows to ward off evil spirits. | |||
There is also the pabasa – a non-stop chant of Jesus’ life, passion and death over blaring speakers. In my hometown in Malabon City, the pabasa begins right after Ash Wednesday, initially in a low tone and gradually rising in volume as the Holy Week approaches until it reaches a deafening crescendo – and ends – on Maundy Thursday. | |||
On Maundy Thursday, Filipino families will be doing the visita iglesia, the pilgrimage to seven – and for some, fourteen – churches to recite the Stations of the Cross. Good Friday sees street processions of bleeding flagellants and cross-carrying penitents, and in some places like Bulacan and Pampanga, a re-enactment of the crucifixion of Jesus where people are nailed to the cross for real. | |||
But if you think it’s only Filipinos who have strange Holy Week rituals and customs, think again. | |||
Also on Maundy Thursday but in another part of the world, residents of the town of Verges in Gerona, Spain celebrate the “La Dansa de la Muerte” or the Dance of Death – a night time macabre dance performed by men dressed as skeletons to symbolize the equality of all men before the Final Judgment. | |||
In Spain, many other towns and cities commemorate the Holy Week with processions of large elaborate floats or “tronos” paraded through the streets at night, each with different themes portraying the last days before Christ’s crucifixion or Bible scenes. These floats, some weighing over 3,000 kilograms, are carried on the shoulders by some forty to fifty men called “costaleros” in a march lasting up to eight hours while being followed by members of religious brotherhoods wearing – for anonymity – pointed hats with a cloth mask, a robe and a cloak, an attire many people say is eerily similar to those worn by the Ku Klux Clan. | |||
In the town of Murcia, a “tronos” telling the story of the Last Supper has real food on the table. On Easter Sunday, the twenty-six men who carried the “tronos” around town get to sit down at the table and eat the food! | |||
Across neighboring Italy, mystery plays are performed throughout towns and cities. Similar to the Moriones Festival in Marinduque, a mystery play is a kind of opera – a sacred opera – performed during Holy Week outside of churches or in the village square, with actors, dancers and props, just like a real opera. After the mystery plays and a solemn mass, a long parade of women dressed in black mourning clothes carry the statue of the Virgin Mary from the church through old-town streets lit only by candles and lamps. | |||
In the South American continent, a different slant to the religious rituals occur on Good Friday when residents of Tarma, Peru, throw abstinence out the window. Instead, participants feast on twelve traditional dishes, from soups, fish, potato dishes to desserts. Again on Easter Sunday, celebrating with food ends the Semana Santa celebrations. | |||
Following the gloomy rites of Good Friday, Saturday takes on an entirely different tone in the town of Ayacucho, Peru. An open air market with crafts, food and music draws a huge crowd who enjoy chicha or chacta with a chew of coca leaves. There is a traditional belief in Ayacucho that since Christ is dead and has not yet risen, there is no such thing as a sin. | |||
Consequently, participants in Ayacucho’s Holy Week celebrations use this time to party and behave as they please until Easter Sunday’s resurrection ceremonies. | |||
Worshipping the popular symbols of Easter is a popular custom in Brazil. The “macela” flower, which blooms only during Lent, is worshipped by the devotees. On Palm Sunday, people would bring the flower to the church service to receive the blessings of the priest. The flower is later on used as a herb which is believed to cure many diseases. | |||
In Popayan, Colombia, the drama of Christ’s crucifixion is re-enacted on Good Friday – but without anyone really being crucified. Instead, a group of men use hammers, chisels, and other tools to symbolically remove the image of Christ from the crucifix and then lay in the Holy Tomb made of ivory and tortoise shell. | |||
However Christians around the world observe Holy Week, what is clear is that we are all united by our devotion to commemorate and reflect upon the suffering, death and resurrection of our savior Jesus Christ. A safe and blessed Holy Week to everyone. | |||
==CIDG collars suspect in Ortega slay== | |||
*Source: http://www.manilatimes.net/index.php/news/top-stories/20173-cidg-collars-suspect-in-ortega-slay | |||
*Thursday, March 29, 2012 | |||
:by : Raffy S. Ayeng, Correspondent | |||
ONE of the suspects in the killing of radio broadcaster and environmentalist Dr. Gerry Ortega was captured by operatives of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) in Palawan province, police reported on Wednesday. | |||
CIDG chief and police director Samuel Pagdilao Jr. said that lawyer Romeo Seratubias, the former provincial administrator of Palawan, was arrested on Tuesday night. | |||
Seratubias was implicated in the sensational killing after investigators found out that he owned the gun allegedly used by Rolando Edrad, alias Bumar, in killing Ortega on January 24, 2011 in Puerto Princesa City. | |||
The Palawan Regional Trial Court’s Branch 52 also on Tuesday ordered the arrest of Seratubias, along with former Gov. Joel Reyes of Palawan, his brother Mario—the mayor of the province’s Coron town—and three others in connection with the case. | |||
CIDG-Mimaropa (Mindoro Occidental, Mindoro Oriental, Marinduque, Romblon and Palawan) chief Col. Nazario Fernandez said that Seratubias is now in their custody. | |||
==Solon wants stiffer penalty against crime of resistance and disobedience== | ==Solon wants stiffer penalty against crime of resistance and disobedience== | ||