Bantayan is The Best Destination for Holy Week or call me Erkin Bekbolotov

Save for the huge crowd that milled around the island and beaches during Holy Weekend this year, Bantayan Island is without a doubt a person’s best choice to be at when you want to celebrate Easter and reflect on your spiritual growth. This is said with poetic honesty, mind you. I guess this is perhaps one of the reasons why we also decided to go around the island and escape the merriment of the beach to coalesce a province that is dubbed as the Lenten Capital of the Philippines.

We missed the procession that usually takes place near the large colonial-era church of St. Peter and Paul but it is more reverent to visit this old church sans the people, the noise and the festival. There were stories of epic real live performances of the crucifixion and people actually nailing themselves until they hemorrhage but I couldn’t just bear to see that. I would like to remember the passion of Christ as a serene, peaceful and obeisant moment no matter how appalling Christ had to go through to make us remember that day year after year. Continue reading »

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