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I grew up to a family where Holy Week meant observing total silence   It was a time when we were forbidden to play around or even turn on the television for cartoons   Year in and out we were treated to Fr Patrick Peyton s Sorrowful Mysteries where the face of Jesus was never shown Cecil deMille s Ten Commandments and Franco Zeffirelli s Jesus of Nazareth on television   I remember the odd and bizarre rituals of Holy Week of flagellants in procession their blood splashing the paved streets the street play depicting Jesus three falls called Tres Caidas which had really old women playing the roles of Mother Mary and the women I never imagined Mother Mary to be a lola   and of the Cenakulo with the strange and funny steps of the actors on stage   I remember the old women in church wearing black clothes and veils which looked so freaky of the long Good Friday procession in Lipa where we joined my maternal grandmother and her carroza of Simon the Cyrene helping Jesus   During Holy Weeks we spent in Pasay the processions of the Catholics and the Aglipayans  would sometimes cross paths one giving way to the other   The icons and statues of Holy Week depicted calm surrender amidst suffering I always wondered why the hair of Mary Magdalene and of Jesus were made of abaca or why people scrambled to take the flowers from the carrozas after the procession I was awed by the Sto Entierro the statue of the dead Jesus in an elaborate glass case I feasted over the tambacol and tulingan served over lunch and dinner I remember the pabasa held in my paternal grandmother s house a few blocks away from where we lived   I enjoyed the suman and leche flan amidst the background of the old women s traditional chanting I only managed to drowse to sleep when I attempted to join them Rapping the pasyon was unheard of in those days Andrew Lloyd Weber s Jesus Christ Superstar was the only music we heard from the stereo   Everything else was static The sweltering summer heat was perfect for Holy Week in contrast to the cold days of Christmas The full moon was a sight to behold as we walked from church to church in the ritual of Visita Iglesia Holy Week was a time for silence as we were reminded to be prayerful and observe sacrifice as a way of sharing in the passion of Jesus

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