holy week reflections

Holy week looked very different this year. Well okay, since the dawn of cable t.v. here in the Philippines a lot has really changed in the way people observe holy week here in the Philippines..we're no longer stuck with the usual T.V. channels showing the same old religious movies and documentaries year after year after year after year....gone are the days when kids would get so bored to dead because everything stops as soon as the clock strikes three...but this year a lot has really changed.

When I went out to attend our church's Good Friday service, I was expecting the streets to be empty and the restaurants and fast food chains closed in the observance of that holy day but to my (pleasant) surprise most of the restaurants I passed by along the way were open and all of them were filled with people who were obviously not abstaining from meat on that day...hehehe!

I suppose we can look at these changes from two points of view: they can be seen as positive changes seeing how people are starting to realize that it is not through our sacrifice that we are saved because the sacrifice has already been made on the cross; then they can also be seen as negative changes seeing how this period is now only seen as a period of rest from work or school and no longer a special day of remembering Christ's sacrifice. 

Well, I'm in no position to judge people...perhaps the people who saw me buying dimsum on my way home were also thinking the same things about me (dimsum on Good Friday??? hahahaha!)...but I really hope that things are starting to become clearer now for more people...that the Lenten Season is not a season for mourning...it is the season for remembering Christ's Victory over death and a season of celebration for our Salvation. 

Happy Easter everyone!!!!