Spend Holy week reflecting on Christ’s passion – bishop

A CATHOLIC bishop called on the faithful to spend the Holy Week in a climate of reflection and penance, asking for God’s forgiveness, instead of relaxation and pleasure.

Boac Bishop Rey Evangelista said Lent is the time to lead one’s self: mind, spirit and heart, to the contemplation of the sufferings of Jesus Christ.

“Holy Week should not be commercialized,” he said. “It is a time to devote one’s whole being into the contemplation of the passion, death and resurrection of our Lord. That’s why it’s called Semana Santa or Holy Week,” the bishop said in an interview over Church-run Radio Veritas.

Evangelista also advised Catholics, particularly those experiencing pain, to relate their sufferings to Jesus’ agony.

He urged the sick and homebound and those languishing in prison to offer their sufferings as reparation to various sins of society against God and humanity.

The Boac bishop said every Catholic should help in shaping the morality of the nation.

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