It's a Holy Week Celebration, Not a Festivity!

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Holy Week (Latin: Hebdomas Sancta) in Christianity is the week just before Easter. In the West, it is additionally the most recent seven day stretch of Lent, and incorporates Palm Sunday, Holy Wednesday, Maundy Thursday (Holy Thursday), Good Friday (Holy Friday), and Holy Saturday. It does exclude Easter Sunday, which starts the period of Eastertide, in spite of the fact that conventions watching the Easter Triduum may cover or dislodge some portion of Holy Week or Easter itself inside that extra formal period.

Holy Week is without a doubt an exceptionally holy time, for it is currently that we will honor and recall the most recent seven day stretch of Jesus' life on this earth. These are the days paving the way to the colossal Easter Feast. The Lenten period of forfeit and discipline is going to reach an end, yet this coming week is critical for all Christians. The best focal point of the week is the Passion (enduring) and Resurrection of Jesus Christ and the occasions that hinted at it.

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For quite a few years now, Bantayanons have generally observed Holy Week and is frequently mixed up as the island's holiday. For the record and for the nth time Holy Week in Bantayan Island isn't a Feast. Amid Holy Week, we need to keep up the gravity of the celebration of the Lord Passion. The district is known for its life estimate figures mounted on Carozzas where Station of the Cross are depicted through a parade. Truth be told, everything begun there in view of these statues. Individuals visits Bantayan to witness the parade. Nonetheless, it is erroneously deciphered these days.

Not in any case one barangay nor a sitio in Bantayan Island is praising any celebrations amid the Holy Week. For us, Holy Week is a Solemn perception of the energy and the passing of Jesus. Anglers don't angle amid Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Black Saturday.

In Bantayan district, there is society conviction that eating meat is permitted notwithstanding amid the Holy Week, offering a break from restraint for a few.

Voyagers both neighborhood and universal harp on this place particularly amid the sacred week since this is the main place that was given a unique run the show. As you probably are aware with Christianity, each heavenly week we are encouraged to swear off eating meat particularly pork. Bantayan however is unique, on nineteenth Pope Leo XII conceded a special case to this place in light of the fact that fisherfolks couldn't and would not go angling amid Holy Week due to the water conditions. History expresses that all together for the Bantayanons to survive, they turn into eating meat notwithstanding of the forbearance administering. As of not long ago, this has turned into a convention.

Moreover, since Bantayan is an angling island, a large portion of the occupants amid pre-Spanish and Spanish time were anglers, and nourishment source fundamentally originated from the ocean consistently. To guarantee that the anglers buy in to Holy Week rehearses (don't go angling), the exclusion was pronounced by Church authorities in Spain; hence, enabling the general population to eat meat. We decline to go out to ocean and fish amid the Holy Week, dreading the rage of God. Without items from the ocean, just meat was accessible to individuals.

Bantayan Island, which comprises of three regions Sta. Fe (covering the eastern segment), is praising their party out of appreciation for Sr. Santo Niño each sixteenth of January, while Madridejos (covering the northern segment) is each eighth of December to pay tribute to Immaculate Concepcion and Bantayan (the biggest district covering the focal part) is each 29th of June out of appreciation for Saints Peter and Paul.

Bantayan Island is an island situated in the Visayan Sea, Philippines. It is arranged toward the west of the northern end of Cebu island, over the Tañon Strait. As per the 2015 registration, it has a populace of 125,726.

The island zone is 110.71 square kilometers (42.75 sq mi). The island is for the most part secured with coconut palms; the rise is generally underneath 30 meters (100 ft), with just a single taller slope, at 60 meters (200 ft), in barangay Atop-on

BANTAYAN ISLAND invites all of you with open arms. All we approach is for you to keep the island clean and watch neighborhood custom and convention, particularly for Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Black Saturday.

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Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Week
http://balita.ph/2013/03/22/lechon-galore-in-bantayan-island-on-good-friday/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bantayan_Island

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