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Prepare for Holy Week in MexicoPlanning for Holy Week starts with months of anticipation and festivities including passion plays, fervid processions and altar displays taking place all over the country. Since the mass conversion of the indigenous peoples to Catholicism in the 16th century, Semana Santa (Holy Week) - a reverent observance of the last days of Jesus, and Pascua - a celebration of the resurrection - have become the most primary religious holidays in Mexico next to Christmas. As with most Mexican celebrations, Semana Santa combines the country’s strong Spanish inheritance with constituents of it is prehispanic past. For generations, pilgrims and tourists similar have journeyed to Mexico to witness the festive yet reverent Semana Santa. The solemn festivities ordinarily start out on Palm Sunday, commemorating the day that Jesus arrived to Jerusalem prior to his crucifixion. As the biblical passage goes, palm subsections and costume were disseminate in his path, and today, reenactments oftentimes include these elements. Holy Thursday commemorates the day of the Last Supper, marked by nationwide visits to seven temples, indicated churches in each town or city. Good Friday marks the day that Jesus was crucified on the cross, with most Christians fasting on this day and reenactments of the crucifixion taking place all over the country. Easter Sunday is a day for celebration, commemorating the day of Jesus’ resurrection, featuring music, dance and cultural activities. In addition to particular mass ceremonies, an important and ubiquitous factor of Semana Santa is the Passion Play, a dramatic reenactment of the crucifixion of Jesus. The Passion Play was brought over to Mexico by Christian missionaries from Europe at a time when it and other religious plays were a widespread critical element of European culture. The play not only pulled through in Mexico but was integrated into the local dramatic rituals already an innate part of the local culture. In Mexico, brilliant Aztec colors are noticeable throughout, and ancient dances are oftentimes performed alongside Christian rituals. Most of the celebrations implicate solemn processions, plays or reenactments of biblical scenes; others incorporate strange constituents into their festivities such as prehispanic dances and exploding Judases. Thousands travel to ordinary destinations to take delight in the outdoors and take part in the festivities. Creel, Chihuahua: The mountainous indigenous community of Creel in northern Mexico, is a popular destination for a Holy Week. Aside from enjoying the myriad of ecotourism activenesses in the Sierra Madre Occidental Mountains, the Tarahumara Indians, one of the few remaining indigenous groups in the country, paint themselves white for Holy Week and host a particular series of celebrations including dance and music dating back centuries, fusing prehispanic tradition with Catholicism. San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato: The colonial city of San Miguel de Allende in central Mexico comes alive for the duration of Holy Week. By Palm Sunday, the city overflows with visitors as well as indigenous women retail flowers, palm crosses and religious articles outside the Parroquia with the Gothic cathedral bearing tall spires as the focal point of the city. The city’s unending pageantry of plays and processions on Good Friday are unparalleled. Children dressed in biblical costumes and men dressed as Roman centurions ride on horseback through the winding cobblestone streets while life-size statues of the Virgin Mary, the Apostles, Mary Magdalene and John the Baptist are carried through the city. Taxco, Guerrero: The picturesque silver mining town of Taxco is likewise a ordinary Holy Week destination, given it is proximity to Mexico City. Palm Sunday marks the beginning of a heap of processions which start out in nearby villages. In commemoration of Jesus’ triumphant entrance into Jerusalem, an effigy of Jesus is mounted on the back of a donkey. As the donkey journeys to Taxco, palm fronds and flowers are laid on the ground. On the night of Holy Thursday, candle-bearing penitents walk in procession to the baroque Church of Santa Prisca. A reenactment of the Last Supper is performed. The Resurrection play, staged around nine o’clock on Saturday morning, is an awe-inspiring website to behold. A final and joyful procession takes place on Easter Sunday. San Luis Potosi, San Luis Potosi: The colonial city of San Luis Potosi, located 257 miles north of Mexico City, will celebrate it is fifty-second Procession of Silence this year, one of the most primary Catholic manifestations in the country. With the participation of more than 2,000 Potosinos, the solemn procession will get started at the Templo de Santo Domingo at eight o’clock in the evening on Good Friday and will make it is way through the downtown historic area. Similar to the ceremony in Sevilla, Spain, penitents don hoods as they walk silently through the streets, carrying torches and holy images. During Holy Week, San Luis Potosi features more than 90 events, including concerts, a national feed festival, and a tennis tournament, now on it is fiftieth year. Ixtapalapa, Mexico City: Few would guess that a little district just south of downtown Mexico City would be in the international spotlight for the duration of Semana Santa. More than a million humans gather in Ixtapalapa each year to witness an entire town convert into a outstanding stage to present a passion play that has been reenacted each year for 150 years. Months prior to Semana Santa, the town comes alive with preparations for the most necessary event of the year, incorporating each fellow member of the community. While there is a share for everyone, actors are cautiously chosen, with the most important parts such as Jesus and the Virgin Mary being the biggest honor. The actor who plays Jesus in peculiar will have to meet sure necessaries such as height, weight and physical condition. The part is as physically demanding as it is in an emotional manner challenging, since the reenactment requires the actor to carry a 200-pound cross through the town, after receiving an actual whipping. Michoacan State: Starting with Palm Sunday, performances representing biblical passages take place allround the state. In San Lorenzo, a little town in the Purepecha area, with regards to 200 miles west of Mexico City, the celebration takes a particular twist, with young people carrying six-foot tall palm leaves to church. Holy Wednesday in the town of Tlalpujahua involves a procession in which big images of Jesus Christ from the XVI and XVIII century grab the eyes of the spectators. Good Friday in Patzcuaro and Morelia include silent processions for the arrest, trial, crucifixion, death and burial of Jesus Christ. Easter Sunday, the day of Jesus’ resurrection, is the last day of celebration. In Tarimbaro, el carnaval chiquito (the little carnival) takes place for the duration of which humans dance in the streets while Judas statuettes explode like fireworks. About the Mexico Tourism Board The Mexico Tourism Board (MTB) brings together the resources of federal and state governments, municipalities and private companies to promote Mexico's tourism attractions and destinations internationally. Created in 1999, the MTB is Mexico’s tourism advertising agency, and it is players include members of both the private and public sectors. The MTB has offices all around North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America. # # # Erick Laseca Mexico Tourism Board 312-228-0517 ext14 erick.laseca@bm.com www.visitmexicopress.com
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Will Kagan, Ginsburg & Breyer mock the Catholic Justices on the 8/15 Assumption of Mary Holy Day of Obligation? for clinging to their guns and religion. Why would Jewish Supreme Court Justices mock the Freedom of Religion of their Catholic coworkers? Catholics believe in the assumption of the body of the Blessed Virgin Mary into heaven after her death. John 19:26-27 states: When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple there whom he loved, he said to his mother, "Woman, behold, your son." Then he said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother." And from that hour the disciple (John) took her into his home. The minutes of the Ecumenical Council of Ephesus in 431 C.E. indicate that four or six years after the death and resurrection of Jesus, John and the Virgin Mary came together to Ephesus, and for a short time stayed in the building, a division of which is now under Church of the Virgin Mary today. Later John moved the Virgin Mary to a house he had prepared for her on Bulbul Dagi (Bulbul Hill). She lived there until the end of her earthly life. St. John of Damascus (P. G., I, 96) later wrote: St. Juvenal, Bishop of Jerusalem, at the Council of Chalcedon (451), made known to the Emperor Marcian and Pulcheria that Mary passed from physical life in the presence of all the Apostles, but that her tomb, when opened, upon the request of St. Thomas, was found empty; wherefrom the Apostles concluded that the body was taken up to heaven. This ancient faith was just formalized by the Pope in 1950. http://www.turktour.com/virgin_mary.html http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02006b.htm With love in Christ. |
