Tag: Holy Week
Holy Week message: humility, selfless love
With the commemoration of the passion, death, and resurrection of Christ, the call for everyone is to stay humble and practice selfless love
To break bread is to wash another’s feet
"I kept asking who among them truly and literally offered their bodies and blood for me?"
Pope Francis celebrates ‘the birthday of the priesthood’ with 1,800 priests
Pope Francis thanked the priests for the “hidden good” that they do, often carried out “with great effort and little recognition"
Photos: ‘Washing of the Feet’
The gesture of washing the feet is part of the Liturgy that commemorates the Last Supper of the Lord with his apostles
Holy Thursday Photos: ‘Penitensya’
Devotees believe that these religious rites would cleanse them from their sins, cure illnesses, and grant wishes
Judah and Judas
I do not know why people are so inclined to keep promoting fear of condemnation as the main motive for conversion instead of God’s unconditional love
Should you blindly follow those Holy Week traditions?
Do we need to scourge our backs until they bleed to show atonement for our sins?
Here’s how to do the ‘Visita Iglesia’ on Holy Thursday
The Seven Churches Visitation (or Pilgrimage) is credited as beginning in Rome with St. Philip Neri in the 1500s
Pope Francis’ advice for Holy Week: Look to the cross, our...
The pope noted how many people today who walk down the street appear sad, focused “only on their cell phones, but without peace, without hope”
‘Washing of the Feet’ in Manila to include representatives of various...
Cardinal Jose Advincula of Manila will wash the feet of 12 persons from different sectors of society