Philippines, filled with fiestas, parades and pageants in honor of the Virgin Mary. Over the 30 days known as Flores de Mayo (Flowers of May), Filipino Catholics gather in their parishes to pray and offer flowers to Mary, culminating with a re-enactment of the Santacruzan. This was when, according to Catholic legend, Empress Helena searched for the cross Jesus Christ was crucified on and brought it back to Rome in a grand spectacle.
This year, the coronavirus forced a simpler celebration. In Borongan, a city of 70,000 residents in the central Philippines, a two-car motorcade left the cathedral carrying only the bishop, a few priests and deacons and the cross mounted on the bed of a pickup truck. It was another quiet night as residents complied with a two-month quarantine order from the government in Manila.
As the motorcade made its way, the dark streets were lit up with candles. Wearing medical masks and staying a safe distance away from their neighbors, people brought altars and family icons of the Virgin Mary outside their homes.
The sight of people kneeling and making the sign of the cross as the motorcade passed brought Tettel Obon, one of the organizers, to tears. She and other volunteers had been producing a daily afternoon program to continue the Flores de Mayo devotions virtually. Families sequestered at home were able to pray along on social media, television or radio. "Everybody at home and even their neighbors joined the online Flores de Mayo," says Obon, with even nearby parishes tuning in.
Locals' efforts to reinterpret Flores de Mayo for the coronavirus era have been at once acts of faith and defiance
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Filipinos celebrate their fiest/festival by having a parade and cooking many kind of delicious dishes dessert.They also love to go to church by thanking god for the things that they celebrate.
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Philippines, filled with fiestas, parades and pageants in honor of the Virgin Mary. Over the 30 days known as Flores de Mayo (Flowers of May), Filipino Catholics gather in their parishes to pray and offer flowers to Mary, culminating with a re-enactment of the Santacruzan. This was when, according to Catholic legend, Empress Helena searched for the cross Jesus Christ was crucified on and brought it back to Rome in a grand spectacle.
This year, the coronavirus forced a simpler celebration. In Borongan, a city of 70,000 residents in the central Philippines, a two-car motorcade left the cathedral carrying only the bishop, a few priests and deacons and the cross mounted on the bed of a pickup truck. It was another quiet night as residents complied with a two-month quarantine order from the government in Manila.
As the motorcade made its way, the dark streets were lit up with candles. Wearing medical masks and staying a safe distance away from their neighbors, people brought altars and family icons of the Virgin Mary outside their homes.
The sight of people kneeling and making the sign of the cross as the motorcade passed brought Tettel Obon, one of the organizers, to tears. She and other volunteers had been producing a daily afternoon program to continue the Flores de Mayo devotions virtually. Families sequestered at home were able to pray along on social media, television or radio. "Everybody at home and even their neighbors joined the online Flores de Mayo," says Obon, with even nearby parishes tuning in.
Locals' efforts to reinterpret Flores de Mayo for the coronavirus era have been at once acts of faith and defiance