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Holy Week 2024 begins on Sunday, March 24.
It ends on Saturday, March 30.
March 31 is Easter Sunday.
Palm Sunday 2025 is on April 13
pa·las·pás
palm fronds
The Tagalog word palaspas refers specifically to palm fronds that Filipinos intricately decorate and take to church on Palm Sunday. After the fronds are blessed by the priests, Filipinos take them back home.
Linggo ng Palaspas
Palm Sunday
Domingo de Ramos
Palm Sunday
Good Friday 2025 is on April 18
Kwaresma is Lent. It is the season when Filipinos remember Christ’s passion (his suffering and death) and resurrection. It starts on Ash Wednesday, forty days before Easter Sunday. On this day, you will see Catholic Filipinos returning from church with ash smudged on their foreheads in the shape of a cross. If you don’t have the mark, you will be asked if you have attended Mass. Continue reading “Holy Week in the Philippines”
The story of the life and death of Jesus Christ
The Pasyón was the most complex and important of the lyric poetry in early Philippine literature. The earliest version published in 1704 by Gaspar Aquino de Belen. A later version appeared in in 1814. Continue reading “PASYON”
root word: basa (meaning: read)
Holy Week 2025 begins on Sunday, April 13, and ends on Saturday, April 20.
In San Fernando, Pampanga, and also in a few other towns in the Philippines, Christ’s crucifixion is reenacted, with volunteers happy to have themselves actually nailed to a cross.
Kwaresma / Kuwaresma
Lent
Semana Santa
= Mahal na Araw
Holy Week
Domingo de Ramos
Linggo ng Palaspas
Palm Sunday
Holy Week in 2025 begins on April 13 (Sunday) and ends on April 20 (Saturday).
The Spanish term is Semana Santa. Continue reading “MAHAL NA ARAW”
Scientific name: Vigna radiata Continue reading “MUNGGO”
