ABW Sept 2018-1

Moriones centurions
parade in the streets
The Senakulo is a series of theatrical presentations
with sound and special lighting, and is held on the
evenings of Holy Wednesday, Maundy Thursday,
on Good Friday Morning and after the midnight
mass on Easter Sunday. The presentations are reenactments
of relevant passages from the Old and
New Testaments, with the Genesis, Prophecies, the
birth, life and teachings,
the passion and death of
Christ to his resurrection.
The Easter Sunday
presentation also includes
the full conversion of
the centurion Longino to
Christianity following the
restoration of his eyesight,
his defiance of Pilate by
spreading the news, his capture and beheading.
The presentations
are re-enactments
of relevant passages
from the Old and
New Testaments.
Preparations on the props and costumes start
months before and rehearsals sometimes last till
dawn, proving, (if proof was ever needed), that
Filipinos take their religion and their festivals very
seriously. Even participants working in other parts
of the country come home to fulfil their spiritual
promise to take part in the passion play for as long
as they can.
On May 10, 2008, the Diocese of Boac celebrated
the 13th anniversary and the golden anniversary
of the canonical coronation of Mahal na Birhen
ng Biglang-Awa (1958–2008). Cebu Archbishop
Cardinal Ricardo Vidal of Mogpog, Marinduque,
officiated at the consecrated mass.
The Diego family fight
for the MARINDUQUE
Boac is the third largest of the six municipalities
of the province of Marinduque, after Santa Cruz
and Torrijos. It borders all the municipalities of the
province: Mogpog to the north, Santa Cruz to the
Northeast, Torrijos to the East, Buena Vista to the
South and Gasan to the South Southwest.
The municipality is generally hilly, rugged and
mountainous in the south and eastern part with thin
strips of flat and farm lands and long shoreline in
the west. The longest and largest river, Boac River,
which gets its source in the mountainous forest in
The Senakulo
features the passion
and death of Jesus
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