Holy Week - get that? Holy Week.
In case you were wondering about my header for this week, it is a photo of the hoods and the shadows they made by New Mexican penitentes. Likewise, the photo shown at the top of this post shows Spanish penitentes in religious procession during Holy Week. (The photo at the bottom shows a devout Catholic mother and her daughters on spring break during Holy Week. LOL!) What?
I love Hispanic religious culture - Latinos actually participate in Holy Week liturgies and para-liturgical observances. The poor and rich alike take part. The penitentes cover their heads to remain anonymous in their penance, as the Gospel recommends. So unlike Anglos - we blog about the wonderful works we perform, and ask for donations and junk up our sites with ads, in order to maintain the comfortable lifestyle we've become accustomed to, while some of us even take Holy Week off to spend vacation time at our favorite resort, and yet complain that priests are not hearing confessions during the Triduum... just because we got drunk on Holy Thursday night and need to confess again*.
No problemo, I'm not judging here - just observing behaviour.
Holy Week at the beach.
*Been there, done that.
***Please note: Comments are closed for the remainder of Holy Week. Awww!
