Visita Iglesia 2010
It has been customary that we do our visita iglesia on Holy Thursday.
We visited 14 churches. My sister tried to be creative and suggested some churches that we haven't visited before on this occasion. I think the new additions are Quiapo church and Malate church. I recall going to Malate church before during my earlier visita iglesia, but that was like really long ago. I think I was still in college then. My sister wanted to go to Our Lady of Guadalupe church but we weren't too confident where it is located. Maybe next year.
I told my sister to be discreet in taking pictures. Actually I don't like the idea of taking pictures and my picture being taken, because this might ruin the solemnity of the trip. Plus the hassle of stopping every now and then until the she is satisfied with her shot. I told her to take the photos from the car window and name her photo collection, Taken from A Far - so near yet so far. haha
She pursued her picture-taking and luckily didn't find it too troublesome. She mostly shot the facade and altar of the churches. She had like maximum of 4 shots for each church, with no flash plus she was just using a point-and-shoot digicam. She and my cousins went crazy in UST. Two of my cousins are studying in UST and my aunt was from there too. Apart from that, Ate's picture taking was low key, which is good.
Here are the churches we visisted.
Our Lady of Gace
Our Lady Of Lourdes (This is the National shrine here in the Philippines)
Sto. Domingo
UST chapel
Quiapo Church
San Sebastian
St Jude
San Beda
Manila Cathedral
San Agustin
Malate Church
Shrine of Jesus
EDSA Shrine
St. Clair
We got home at around 12 midnight. It took us a bit longer in UST due to the photoshoot and the other van's wheel was busted in between our 1st and 2nd church.
But it was all good. My cousins are getting older now, most of them are in uni already. Hopefully next year, we'll have new faces in this trip - caca and tom. :)
We visited 14 churches. My sister tried to be creative and suggested some churches that we haven't visited before on this occasion. I think the new additions are Quiapo church and Malate church. I recall going to Malate church before during my earlier visita iglesia, but that was like really long ago. I think I was still in college then. My sister wanted to go to Our Lady of Guadalupe church but we weren't too confident where it is located. Maybe next year.
I told my sister to be discreet in taking pictures. Actually I don't like the idea of taking pictures and my picture being taken, because this might ruin the solemnity of the trip. Plus the hassle of stopping every now and then until the she is satisfied with her shot. I told her to take the photos from the car window and name her photo collection, Taken from A Far - so near yet so far. haha
She pursued her picture-taking and luckily didn't find it too troublesome. She mostly shot the facade and altar of the churches. She had like maximum of 4 shots for each church, with no flash plus she was just using a point-and-shoot digicam. She and my cousins went crazy in UST. Two of my cousins are studying in UST and my aunt was from there too. Apart from that, Ate's picture taking was low key, which is good.
Here are the churches we visisted.
Our Lady of Gace
Our Lady Of Lourdes (This is the National shrine here in the Philippines)
Sto. Domingo
UST chapel
Quiapo Church
San Sebastian
St Jude
San Beda
Manila Cathedral
San Agustin
Malate Church
Shrine of Jesus
EDSA Shrine
St. Clair
We got home at around 12 midnight. It took us a bit longer in UST due to the photoshoot and the other van's wheel was busted in between our 1st and 2nd church.
But it was all good. My cousins are getting older now, most of them are in uni already. Hopefully next year, we'll have new faces in this trip - caca and tom. :)