Holy Week Circus

“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life,” says John, the heroic evangelist; and, ironically, is the hero that also said the time will come when our head will be chopped off of our body when we didn’t receive the mark of the beast.

Metropolitan Church of San Fernando City, Pampanga 

The benevolent week has officially started when we bought our annual palaspas from Ka Ana, my mother’s friend. Hundreds, or maybe thousands, of them were blessed by our oh-so-holy Parish Priest whose name I won’t mention because you might despise him during your prestigious time of reading this post.

We officially welcomed the arrival of our Dear Lord Jesus to Jerusalem. We officially waved our palaspas, officially bathed with holy water, officially enthralled with the soulful voices of the volunteer singers of the traditional pabasa, and officially saw the official candidates for the award of the most fantabulous and extravagant poon for the year 2015.

And, most of all, I am officially pissed with the Catholic priests.

Indeed, the Holy Week Circus has already started.

Palm Sunday, March 29th. We’re late as I was stuck in my bed and won’t get up not until my mother almost condemned me. My experience of the circus is starting and I am a;ready pissed with the parish priest that celebrated the mass.

I was sleepy during the initial part of the mass because I don’t have to listen, I know the first and second reading, and the gospel by heart, I am that religious, or well let’s just say, church-involved back in my early years. I only started to really listen to the priest when he fearlessly said these words:

“Hindi naman sa pagiging ano, pero, mas magaling ang Diyos natin kaysa sa Diyos ng ibang relihiyon.”

SERIOUSLY, oh-so-holy father? You said that in the front of your faithfuls? SERIOUSLY?! My-God-is-better-than-your-God argument? You are indeed a disrespectful bastard that do not have the right to preach the word of the Lord. Review your theology, or better strengthen your argument. No God is better than others, we only have one. Whether our God is a she or a he, whether she has a thousand hands, disguised as an elephant, or fat and cute, there is only one God. One divine being. I know I don’t have the right either to preach the word of our Lord, because I didn’t spend 15 years of my life in a seminary, or vowed to the three pillars of holiness. But YOU, YOU that has spent his life “devoting” himself to the Lord, IF YOU WILL BE LIKE THAT KIND OF A PRIEST, you better resign. Because you might have the skill to recite the bible from cover-to-cover, but you lack one thing: respect. And, unfortunately, it’s not education that will teach you the concept of respect for other people.

Learn to respect the belief. Learn to love their faith. Because the content of bible, qu’ran, shruti, tiptaka, torah, and other religious books are all the same: the concept of love. And respect is rooted from love. If you don’t have respect, review and reflect on your 15 years in the seminary.

I may not attend to mass on my birthday, but I make it to a point that I will be on the Palm and Easter Sunday masses. I can count on my one hand the number of masses that I attend to. I may not sound religious from this post, and you might question my faith. But I bet you, I have an ample amount knowledge of the Bible and of the Catholic Church, and I am trying my best to understand theology; not just Catholicism, but the other religion as I believe that we may not have the same concept about God, but the concept why religion was initially created is to spread love and unite people, not to divide them, as to what is currently happening now.

More post about the Circus are coming. Just wait.