Holy Week in San Antonio, Texas (2003)

Holy Week celebration in San Antonio, Texas is one of the most colorful in the country. It is marked by the reenactment of the Passion of Jesus Christ and other expressions of popular religiosity (funeral procession and burial of Jesus, pesame or condolences to the Virgin). Holy Week commemoration in San Antonio is very similar in many ways to Holy Week celebrations in most Philippines towns. (Click on the thumbnails for high-resolution picture)

 

Palm Sunday celebration with the Josefina Sisters.
 Archbishop Patrick Flores presiding at the Holy Thursday liturgy at the Cathedral.
 Archbishop Flores celebrates Holy Thursday liturgy.
 Costumed participants at the ceremony of washing of the feet.
Centuriones during Good Friday procession.
 The cross is passed around for the people to venerate.
 Veneration of the cross during Good Friday liturgy.
 Singing the 'Our Father"
People line up to venerate the image of Jesus lying in state.
 The image of Jesus is brought down from the cross.
 The disciples are preparing Jesus' body for burial.
 Jesus' body being readied for burial.
Hooded penitents during the procession.
 The catafalque bearing the body of Jesus.
 The weeping women of Jerusalem.
 The weeping women annoiting the body of Jesus with oil and spices.

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