Honoring the dead
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| Armida Siguion-Reyna |
The Catholic tradition of honoring the dead first came in the 7th century, when Pope Boniface IV created All Saints’ Day to honor all dead saints on May 13. It was Pope Gregory III who moved the date to Nov. 1, so today Filipinos troop to the graves of their dearly departed in various cemeteries all over the country, graves they will have had cleaned and spruced up a week or so ago.
As you read this, you shall probably have already read about how President Beniqno Aquino III and his sisters visited their parents’ graves a day earlier to “beat the traffic.” An increasing number do the same, not only to avoid the rush, but to shy away from the increasingly shocking rowdy behavior that has come to characterize the nation’s observation of the practice inherited from Spain.
Look around you when you go out to visit your dead later today, and you will most likely see tents set over gravesites for private drinking parties, tombs used for eating and playing mahjong or pusoy, or as entablados for the younger members of the family to dance on while the latest dance music blare out loud from portable music players. Playing “Pinoy Henyo” is perhaps the kindest that they’ll do, with the more affluent doing word games or “Angry Birds” on their iPads..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20111101com4.html
2 comments:
bale mayo 13 pala dapat o dati ang katolikong undas.
"The Catholic tradition of honoring the dead first came in the 7th century, when Pope Boniface IV created All Saints’ Day to honor all dead saints on May 13. It was Pope Gregory III who moved the date to Nov. 1, so today Filipinos troop to the graves of their dearly departed in various cemeteries all over the country, graves they will have had cleaned and spruced up a week or so ago."
parang may pinatatamaang dilaw diyan ah....
"It is not enough for you to continuously speak of how honorable your parents were in life. You are expected to continuously act as honorably, you carry out their greatness in thought, word, and deed. This, if you want to truly honor your parents, but if you can’t, itigil mo na’ng kapapamisa para sa kanila, kasisindi ng kandila sa kanilang mga nitso. Pinuputikan mo lang ang kanilang mga alaala."
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