A day of sadness
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“It is accomplished; and bowing his head he gave up his spirit.”
Friday is celebrated as the traditional day of sadness. The whole catholic church mourns the death of our savior. We also call this day a Holy Friday, an obligatory day of fasting and abstinence. During fast we of course still eat but we abstain from certain foodstuffs and give up some luxury items from our diet such as meat. I usually do this entirely during the holy friday.
Although it is not all about giving things up, it is also about adding good things to our lives and to other’s lives. Giving up something simple or small during the lent is somewhat a reflections of awareness of sin or sorrow over it. Like fasting, it is one of the obligatories that Catholics usually do. We soberly look into ourselves and getting down to what is real.
In our province, friday is associated with the crucifixion of Jesus which is solemnly celebrated with the re-enactment of Jesus’ procession to the cross held at 3 o’clock in the afternoon which symbolizes Jesus’ last hour on the cross. We usually gathered altogether by doing activities such as turning off the TV, radio and generally agreed on each other by talking silently.
And then I guess, I’m giving up blogging for lent. I’ll see you all soon.
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by: Jaci Velasquez
See you, K. Blessed be Christ!
I completely ignored eating the meat even if I was drooling to eat a spam. Oh well, I did survive it. At least I gave up on something during this lent.
See you soon.
Hi Pari, not going away for a long time - but seems like being quiet for a day or two in this blog is like hundred days of being away.
Well done, K! It is nice to remember these holy days. BTW did you know your blog is really popular at coComment? In the last 10 days, it places second.
Jack, no shit? I don’t know and I’m sorry if I reply to comments individually. Well I like reading comments, long or short then reply to them as much as I can. It’s also one way of promoting your site maybe but hey, it’s fun tho.
Please don’t be sorry: I like it this way and I also believe you should do what you are most comfortable with. Anyway, no shit—you are number two for the ‘last 10 days’ category, behind Ryan Benson’s blog at the moment.
I also like coComment for showing me new conversations, even those in other languages. I found one in Taiwan through it: it was the first Chinese blog I had ever commented on!
Hahaha Jack, you’re addicted to the commenting thing or you’re addicted to reply to me? Well you are my big COMMENTER around here and I must owe that “number 2″ to you. I wanted to add some css-HTML on the coComment on my sidebar but wp.com won’t allow the script. But what the heck…. M’goi sai!
My pleasure! I just enjoy blogging and chatting: sort of my hobby du jour for the time being! Though this commenting does help my coCo count, I have noticed. Plus, it increases the number of links to my own blog!
I’ve added you to my blogroll but I haven’t taken the time to leave messages or comment in one of your posts simply because I’m “shy”. I read them tho. I’m a lurker myself. hahaha.
That’s quite all right. I’m very, very grateful for your link to my blog. Please don’t feel compelled to leave any messages; plus, a lot of my posts don’t lend themselves as readily to comments IMO. I am just grateful to be linked from here.
Good to know Jack. Thanks.