Apr 03 2009
It’s Holy Week Next Week – What’s the Plan? Visita Iglesia?
I have started an annual tradition that my friends and I take during Holy Week. It was a tradition taught us by the Spanish and a very Catholic Tradition. It’s called “Visita Iglesia” or the English equivalent of “Maundy Thursday”. It falls on the Thursday before Easter. We visit 14 churches and say the Stations of the Cross and we usually do the visit on foot.
It’s not that hard really but the weather in the Philippines during the month of April is quite hot. It’s still cool here in the U.S. during that time but to visit 14 churches would be too much so we decided to visit 7 churches and say two of each Stations of the Cross per church and we observe it on Good Friday instead of Maundy or Holy Thursday. It seems to work quite well. We liked it so much four years ago and this will be our fourth year of observance. More friends have joined us during this pilgrimage which starts in South Jersey and ends in Philadelphia.
It’s my way of not forgetting our tradition. I am looking forward to it.
Thanks – it did the same for me. You are welcome. 