Good Friday Procession
Saint Anthony of Padua Parish ,
Camaligan Camarines,Sur

Mater Dolorosa

 

Mater Dolorosa

The Seven Sorrows of Mary are a popular Roman Catholic devotion. In common religious Catholic imagery, the Blessed Virgin Mary is portrayed in a sorrowful and lacrimating affect, with seven daggers piercing her heart, often bleeding. Devotional prayers which consist of meditation began to elaborate on her Seven Sorrows based on the prophecy of the Rabbi Simeon. Common examples of piety under this title are Servite rosary, or the Chaplet of the Seven Sorrows of Our Lady and the Seven Joys of Mary and more recently, "Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary". 

Holy Week procession

(Good Friday)

Camaligan Camarines, Sur

 

Santo Entierro

 

Santo Entierro

 

The usual highlight of Good Friday is the Santo Entierro ("holy internment"), which is the name of both the rite and the wooden or resin sculpture of the dead Christ lying supine used in this Hispanic custom. Comparable to the Eastern Orthodox practice of processing the epitaphion, the calandra or bier carrying the Santo Entierro is brought about town, normally followed by a retinue of saints connected with the Passion narrative such as Peter and John the Evangelist. Tradition dictates that the Virgin Mary, dressed as the mourning Mater Dolorosa, is always the last image in the procession regardless of the number of statues involved.

 

Holy Week procession

(Good Friday)

Camaligan Camarines, Sur

 

 

Holy Week procession

(Good Friday)

Camaligan Camarines, Sur

Christ Carrying the Cross

 Christ Carrying the Cross on his way to his crucifixion is an episode included in all four Gospels, and a very common subject in art, especially in the fourteen Stations of the Cross, sets of which are now found in almost all Catholic churches. 

 

 

Holy Week procession

(Good Friday)

Camaligan Camarines, Sur

Agony in the Garden

According to all four Gospels, immediately after the Last Supper, Jesus took a walk to pray. Each Gospel offers a slightly different account with regards to narrative details. Matthew and Mark identify this place of prayer as Gethsemane. Jesus was accompanied by the Apostles Peter, John and James, whom he asked to stay awake and pray. He moved "a stone's throw away" from them, where He felt overwhelming sadness and anguish, and said "My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass me by. Nevertheless, let it be as you, not I, would have it." Then, a little while later, He said, "If this cup cannot pass by, but I must drink it, your will be done!" (Matthew 26:42).

 

Holy Week procession

(Good Friday)

Camaligan Camarines, Sur