Easter Sunday and Black Saturday in Antique

After our Good Friday in Aklan, we took a 4 hours drive to our home town, Sibalom, Antique. It was an exhaustive trip since it was very hot day and we arrived exactly 12pm. But it is worth when i saw my nanay and tatay smiling and surprised that we arrived.

I want to share my shots on black saturday in the Parish Church of Egaña. We rushed to the church to witness the New Light (Kapawa in kinaray-a dialect). It is like a bonfire outside the church but it is lighted from a falling ball of fire from the sky (Bulalakaw in kinaray-a dialect).

Actually it has a wire set from a tree to the pile of wood and someone lights it above the tree and the fireball slides down through the wire and lights the pile of wood in instant. The bonfire represents the New Light, where the church candle is first lighted then brought inside to give illumination to darkness inside the church. Then the mass starts.

I also took shots on the Easter Sunday in our church. Each year we wintess the Bitay (angel from heaven crowns and praise the virgin Mary) which everybody is waiting every Easter Sunday.