Here, I took some photos of the Saint Christopher Parish Church in Bangar, La Union. Paintings illustrating the "Apostle's Creed" and the "Mysteries of Holy Rosary" adorn the ceiling.
The body of the dead Jesus Christ is placed inside an embellished casket, a much different version of how Jesus have died and how He was buried.
According to the Bible, Joseph asked Pontius Pilate for Jesus' body. They then wrapped His body with a linen cloth and buried it in a tomb. Here I should say is how people prefer to look at things behind rose-tinted glasses. I felt that if Jesus death was presented as how it is described in the Bible, then kissing the Dead Jesus Christ would be more than just a practice that we do every year. My young niece and nephew, who had their first experience of this part of our culture, would have asked more questions at why people would kiss a mutilated body all drenched in blood with nothing on but a linen cloth.
Of the more profound lessons from the commemoration of this event, I remember a simple lesson that deals with cristicisms. A quote goes, "You cannot please everybody. Look at what happened to the man who did all the right things."
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