Tag: Black Nazarene

Shall we keep waving handkerchiefs and dancing in front of our santos while we leave the many others to continue to die on our streets?

“Let us abandon a life of sin and live in the honor of God’s children. Let us strive to win truth, justice, and peace in the world.”

Father Jun Sescon, Quiapo church rector, invited the devotees to “conversion” and into a “deeper relationship with Jesus”

Close to a hundred thousand devotees of the Black Nazarene of Manila joined a ‘Walk of Faith’ before dawn on Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023

Filipino Catholics are getting ready for another religious festival with the blessing of replicas of the image of the “Black Nazarene”

There used to be a myriad of stories during the celebration of the “feast” of the Black Nazarene in Manila every January 9

The Black Nazarene devotion is perhaps one of the Philippines' most predominantly working-class Catholic devotions

This year, there will be no sea of bodies of devotees of the Black Nazarene who would usually flood Manila's Quiapo district

“Our culture is a culture of touch and, significantly, in a way we want to touch heaven”

“We ask for forgiveness and understanding that because of the pandemic we cannot do the traditional activities during the feast”