Flagellants of Pampanga. Flagellants whip themselves bloody in Magalang, Pampanga, on Holy Wednesday. This Holy Week tradition reaches its climax on Good Friday when several penitents have themselves nailed to crosses in imitation of the crucifixion of Christ. (Noel Celis)
"Last Supper" rites held on the first Holy Thursday, the last day of Jesus as a free man, will be revisited by the Christian world today, with the "Visita Iglesia," the Lenten tradition of visiting 14 Catholic churches highlighting the Philippines’ Maundy Thursday celebration.
On this day in olden times, Jesus returned to Jerusalem mainly to join His 12 Apostles in the celebration of Israel’s greatest holiday of the "Passover Feast" recalling the Moses-led exodus to freedom among thousands of Jews kept slaves by the pharaohs in Egypt for generations.
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Mindanao will experience mostly cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and isolated thunderstorms. The rest of the country will be partly cloudy to at times cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers and thunderstorms mostly in afternoon or early evening.
