This is part of my Semana Santa series where I feature rituals and traditions observed in certain places during this most solemn week in the Catholic calendar. Click on the image at the right to check the rest of the articles.
Are you just in Manila or Cebu during the Holy Week? Do the visita iglesia, a time honored, lenten ritual especially done this Maundy Thursday by visiting 7 or 14 churches to reflect on the life, passion and death of the Christ. To guide you, check out my visita iglesia guides which are available FREE! Each church is treated with a beautiful facade image, a short history and, of course, a printable map that you can take with you on the road.
In tandem with Simbahan.net, Langyaw.com presents some visita iglesia routes featuring the existing Filipino Baroque churches in each featured province that are still existing, except that of Intramuros where the lost churches are shown.
This post kicks off my Semana Santa series where I feature rituals and traditions observed in certain places during this most solemn week in the Catholic calendar. Click on the image at the right to check the rest of the articles. For purposes of travel for the visita iglesia, I…
For the past few weeks, it’s all been a blur. Shuttling to and fro, here and there either for work or for leisure but mostly on the former. Got an assignment for a magazine, around three articles in one issue. I got invited to a resort up north where for…
This is part of my Semana Santa series where I feature rituals and traditions observed in certain places during this most solemn week in the Catholic calendar. Click on the image at the right to check the rest of the articles.
