It is exactly one week now since last Wednesday of the Holy week when I witnessed the Wednesday procession of life-sized statues of famous Catholic Saints as one of the provincial folks' ways of celebrating their Holy Week. I was indeed left wordless with awe and reverence when I saw the statutes of Saints adorned splendidly with flower decorations and bright lightings around them and were processed around the main streets of the town proper with solemn respect and reverence.Indeed Filipinos have lots of ways of celebrating Holy week and they are really rich in religious pratices. As what I have witnessed, one of them was conducted on Good Friday wherein a group of men, young and old alike, their heads and faces entirely covered with black linen, were parading on the streets with a strange kind of act: hitting and whipping theirselves! I guess, that was their way to celebrate Holy week: Flagellate themselves thru self-inflicting physical pain to the extent of shedding their own blood! I was really groping for words to say and was just left wordless while witnessing these men whip and hit their backs with sharp metalled objects. What a way to celebrate the Holy week!
3 comments:
I really like how you give us glimpses into traditions we otherwise wouldn't have known (thanks, too, for dropping by my blog this week and providing additional background on last week's image. Much appreciated!)
I've posted my Wordless Wednesday contribution here:
http://writteninc.blogspot.com/2008/03/wordless-wednesday-pac-man-found-dead.html
Not quite as thought-provoking as yours, but it should bring a smile to your face all the same. I hope you'll drop by and say hi,
Have a great rest-of-WW. All the best!
Carmi
ouch ouch... doesn't that hurt?
helllo....katakot naman yang mga padugo nayan....
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