It has been part of the Filipino tradition to celebrate the Feast of the Black Nazarene which is currently at Quiapo Church. Black Nazarene is a life-sized, dark color wooden sculpture of Jesus Christ. And it is said to be miraculous by lots of people specially the devotees.
This feast is celebrated every 9th of the January, while the novena was held every Friday night starting from the first quarter of the year. It became also significant because as a part of the procession of the Black Nazarene, devotees walk with bare feet, without shoes or sandals as to imitate Jesus on His walk to the Mount Cavalry.
And this tradition really shows how religious and faithful Filipinos are. Some people or devotees of Nazarene hopes that their wishes will soon be grant by the Nazarene. Some go there just to experience for once how the devotees experienced when they join the procession. And some take the advantage to get a bigger income by selling different souvenirs and memorabilia.
And tomorrow will be the 403rd year of the celebration of the Black Narazene and hopefully everything's gonna be fine.
This feast is celebrated every 9th of the January, while the novena was held every Friday night starting from the first quarter of the year. It became also significant because as a part of the procession of the Black Nazarene, devotees walk with bare feet, without shoes or sandals as to imitate Jesus on His walk to the Mount Cavalry.
And this tradition really shows how religious and faithful Filipinos are. Some people or devotees of Nazarene hopes that their wishes will soon be grant by the Nazarene. Some go there just to experience for once how the devotees experienced when they join the procession. And some take the advantage to get a bigger income by selling different souvenirs and memorabilia.
And tomorrow will be the 403rd year of the celebration of the Black Narazene and hopefully everything's gonna be fine.
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