This week’s theme for my Thursday meme (hmm sounds so good) LP is Simula Pa Lang or kick off.yay! I love this theme. It gives a certain promise that everything is going to be smooth. (why I am so poetic?ugh)So for this theme I present you this torch. This is taken last Black Saturday. Traditionally (or Biblically or historically) a mass on Black Saturday is held. This is one of my favorite Holy Week mass. The overwhelming feeling of something big is about to start is so, well, overwhelming. There is not a single mass (hat I attended on my past life) that I was not filled with excitement and emotion for this event. This mass signals the start of a new life. The church was dimmed and closed before the mass starts. Outside the church a bonfire (or a small fire in this case) was lit. Then people would lit their light form that fire. They would open the church and start the mass. During the mass also, water and all kinds of lighting material was blessed with Holy water. I’m sorry if I can’t explain it well to you guys, I am not on Theology and so. This is just based on my childhood experiences and Saturday Masses I attended then.

Ang tema po ngayong linggo para sa aking pang Huwebes na meme na Litratong Pinoy ay simula pa lang. Gusto ko ang tema na ito. Ito po ay kuha noong nakaraang Sabado de Gloria. Alam nyo ba na tuwing Sabado de Gloria ay may nagaganap na misa sa hapon (o gabi). Ang simbahan ay sarado sa una. Ang mga tao ay nakaumpok sa labas ng saimbahan at bagoa ng simula ng misa ay magsisindi ng apoy ang pari. Napaka significant ng simbang ito (pasensya di ko matandaan ang tagalog ng significant hehe), at hindi ko man kayang ipaliwanag, ako’y naging saksi kung paanong ang misang ito ay nakakalunod ng emosyon.