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Semana Santa 07: Senakulo Kristo

I’ve just uploaded my Soundslide (demo use, yes, just registered it) Senakulo slideshow comprising 20 photos from a series of night shoot of a passion play in Evangelista St., Makati. Please click on the image to go to the webpage and click the PLAY button located at the bottom left corner. The slideshow is four minutes long with background senakulo sound recorded on the last day, 7 April with the typical tagulaylay rythm.

My Semana Santa posts will be started next week.

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Semana Santa 07: Three Images

In Paete

The pagsusuob of the image of the Santo Intierro here in Paete was just held earlier this morning and really, it was something that you cannot just forget. The pagsusuob is a ritual that is one of a kind probably in the Philippines (and possibly the world?) wherein the iconic image of the dead Christ is ritually bathed (more like daubed with cotton) in a mixture of lambanog (a local spirit that has high alcohol content akin to vodka) and agua de cologna (an aromatic or perfumed liquid). Then a makeshift tent is placed over it comprised of wooden frames and blankets. The image is then smoked for almost 5 hours.

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La Union, 5 - Balaoan

..continued from La Union, 4 - Luna

Just along the highway in the seeming busy town of Balaoan, is another imposing and beautiful church that is quite unlike the rest of the churches that I’ve visited in this trip or even in the rest of La Union that I’ve passed by, saw in books or visited:

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kinse-kinse of Lucban church

kinse-kinse

Originally uploaded by batingaw.

The parish pastoral council of Lucban couldn’t resist it and thus, the Spanish colonial era church ground perimenter fence locally called kinse - kinse was finally updated with those modern, ugly and out of place iron grills.

Its another sad development in yet another town in the country.

La Union, 4 - Luna

…continued from La Union, 3 - Bangar

Another short tricycle ride from the highway from Balaoan, or a much longer one from Bangar, is another imposing and beautiful church of Luna. Its blue and white paint a welcome respite from the usual pink/white/beige look on the other churches that I’ve passed in La Union.

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