I awoke early to see the Palm Sunday celebrations, or Linggo ng Palaspás as we say in Tagalog. Palm Sunday commemorates the entry of Jesus Christ into Jerusalem. Typically we'd bring our palms (palaspás) to church where it is blessed by the priest, but it seems that the priest makes rounds in the neighbourhoods and blesses the palms people have adorned their yards or gates with.
The night before we had decorated the front of our house with the palms and set up a mic and speaker so the priest would stop by. He did stop by, along with a congregation of church goers. I don't fully understand the ritual or even the prayers that were said (as they were all in Tagalog) but in the end he blessed our palms with holy water.
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| Father Bobby Mariano |
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| Mum and Dad |
At 8am I accompanied niece Nicole to the Palm Sunday mass at Mt Carmel church which is a short walk from where we live. Again it was in Tagalog so I didn't understand too much.
In the afternoon we went over to San Roque where my dad's sister (Tita Nita) lives and had dinner over there.
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