Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Pampanga | Visita Iglesia Roadtrip


The Seven Churches Visitation also known as Visita Iglesia is a pious Roman Catholic tradition observed by faithful Christians during Lent by attempting to visit 7 Christian sites or parishes.



Customarily, Visita Iglesia is done every Holy Thursday. Unfortunately for the stokedtraveler, he lives in a province where there is a large number of magdarame (penitents). For this reason, he decides to spare his car of blood from those who flagellate themselves splashing around blood in anything or anyone they get close to. He’s seen several automobiles in the past which were decorated with blood and he is just irked by the thought of having blood on his white car. He makes his church visit during Holy Tuesday when there are little to no mamalaspas walking around the roads.

It was a choice between doing Visita Iglesia (Visita Altares as his mom calls it) in his home province in Pampanga or take a longer road trip in Bataan heading to Mt. Samat. The former was the more practical choice due to the proximity, budget (gas expense) and familiarity to the location. He will still take the excursion to Mt. Samat and write about it in a separate entry.

The trip starts straight from the family house of the stokedtraveler in Angeles City. Though he planned to make an early start in the morning, his body refused to cooperate. He managed to leave home at 2pm in the afternoon.
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