Tag: Feast of the Black Nazarene
Black Nazarene devotees flock to Manila’s Quiapo district
The life-sized image is now encased in laminated tempered glass and climbing onto the carriage is deemed prohibited
Nazarene on the ground
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?
Thousands of Filipino Catholics join ‘Walk of Faith’ to honor Black...
Father Jun Sescon, Quiapo church rector, invited the devotees to “conversion” and into a “deeper relationship with Jesus”
Photos’: Walk of Faith’
Close to a hundred thousand devotees of the Black Nazarene of Manila joined a ‘Walk of Faith’ before dawn on Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023
Photos: Philippines’ devotion to ‘Black Nazarene’ through the years
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 and the Filipinos’ quest for resurrection
The Black Nazarene devotion is perhaps one of the Philippines' most predominantly working-class Catholic devotions
Filipino devotion to ‘Black Nazarene’ getting stronger, more challenging amid pandemic
This year, there will be no sea of bodies of devotees of the Black Nazarene who would usually flood Manila's Quiapo district
What is the ‘Black Nazarene’?
“Our culture is a culture of touch and, significantly, in a way we want to touch heaven”
Manila prelate urges faithful to use technology to show devotion to...
“We ask for forgiveness and understanding that because of the pandemic we cannot do the traditional activities during the feast”
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