7 Days of being Holy

Visita Iglesia is a practice done by Filipinos wherein they visit at least 7 churches. "One church equals two Stations of the Cross" is the commonly used strategy used by Filipinos. It is either done on Maundy Thursday or Good Friday of the Holy Week and the Holy Week is the sixth and last week of Lent, beginning with Palm Sunday and concluding on Holy Saturday.

Although our Visita Iglesia this year was a bit different than the past years. We only made it to one church because we didn’t have much time in our hands. But me and my mother always recited the rosary for the whole Holy Week every afternoon to celebrate it. I’ve also heard from my mother during Holy Week that to determine Easter is that after the full moon of April (mostly called the Paschal Full Moon), if it is on a Sunday then Easter will be on the following Sunday. Pretty cool that until now, we use moon phases to determine dates, just like our ancestors. We had a fun time during the Holy Week and the Visita Iglesia this year.

This Holy Week and Visita Iglesia has been fun to celebrate. You learn new things and also try to experience what hasn’t yet been experienced during the week. You make new discoveries along the way while celebrating the Holy Week. Visita Iglesia really lets us remember Christ’s journey from condemned to death to where he is laid in the tomb.

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