Catholic Tradition In Southern Luzon

Festivities starts on Palm Sunday when everyone goes to church with palm leaves, listens to the mass, and prepares for a week-long celebration after that. Then comes Monday until Wednesday, We go to the office, and we do our regular chores, but in a more solemn manner. Loud music is out of the question, drinking and going to bars are- definitely a no-no... This is the time to reflect and to do fasting.This is the perfect time to forgive and forget.
On Maundy Thursday, Filipinos will attend the mass and pray together as we remember the day Christ started suffering for our sins. Catholics observe the Stations of the Cross, and it has been their tradition to visit as many churches as they can by walking. Others will just be in their respective homes as they sing from the book called Passion.
Good Friday is when you can see penitents who reenact how Jesus was nailed in the cross  by putting on barbed wires as their crowns, and walking down the streets carrying a cross that weights a ton. On Black Saturday, to commemorate when Jesus is still dead, Filipinos still continue with the fasting to somehow suffer for what He did for us. And as soon as sunrise hits on Easter Sunday, Filipinos go to church together, and celebrate as Christ  has risen from death. The Resurrection is now here. So we rejoice in that day, and we have somehow adopted westernized culture. We now have Easter egg hunting on this memorable day.

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                                        Catholic Easter Traditions in Southern Luzon

Festivities starts  on Palm Sunday when everyone goes to church with palm leaves, listens to the mass, and prepares for a week-long celebration after that. Then comes Monday until Wednesday, We go to the office, and we do our regular chores, but in a more solemn manner. Loud music is out of the question, drinking and going to bars are- definitely a no-no... This is the time to reflect and to do fasting.This is the perfect time to forgive and forget.
On Maundy Thursday, Filipinos will attend the mass and pray together as we remember the day Christ started suffering for our sins. Catholics observe the Stations of the Cross, and it has been their tradition to visit as many churches as they can by walking. Others will just be in their respective homes as they sing from the book called Passion.
Good Friday is when you can see penitents who reenact how Jesus was nailed in the cross  by putting on barbed wires as their crowns, and walking down the streets carrying a cross that weights a ton.
On Black Saturday, to commemorate when Jesus is still dead, Filipinos still continue with the fasting to somehow suffer for what He did for us.
And as soon as sunrise hits on Easter Sunday, Filipinos go to church together, and celebrate as Christ has risen from death. The Resurrection is now here. So we rejoice in that day, and we have somehow adopted westernized culture. We now have Easter egg hunting on this memorable day.