Lenten Season: Celebration amid the Pandemic

 

Lenten Season, or so called Kwaresma. It is the season when Filipinos remember Christ’s passion (his suffering and death) and resurrection. It starts on Ash Wednesday, forty days before Easter Sunday. On this day, Catholic Filipinos will emerge from church with ash smudged in the form of a cross on their foreheads. You will be asked whether you have attended Mass if you do not have the mark.

                   But in this year, things had changed because of this Covid-19 pandemic, the past year this season are celebrated in the public which many people will attend but due to this year this season they will be celebrating with an annual celebration, which church are allowing 10% capacity of people to attend the mass each day. But still catholic are being faithful in finding an alternative way of celebrating this Lenten season safely without going out. Virtual mass is one of an alternative way, which masses are attended virtually by using television, gadgets and radio, because our prayers and intentions are more important than attending personally without ensuring your safetiness.

                   Lenten season needs a simple sacrifice, and a simple celebration amidst this pandemic, so for our safetiness in celebrating this season in our community we need to strictly follow health protocols. And just like I said a while ago, our prayers and intentions are more important than celebrating without ensuring your safety.

source:https://www.tagaloglang.com/holy-week-in-the-philippines/#:~:text=Kwaresma%20is%20Lent.,forty%20days%20before%20Easter%20Sunday.

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