SEVILLE GOOD FRIDAY 2018: CRISTO DE LA SALUD EN LAS TRES NECESIDADES (Seville) The mystery represents the three necessities – stairs, shroud, and sepulcher. It depicts Christ crucified and dead, our Sorrowful Mother with St. John, Mary Magdalene, Mary Salome, Mary of Cleophas, Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus, as well as the images of the…
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JESUS TAKES UP HIS CROSS
JESUS TAKES UP HIS CROSS “Outside the city, to the north-west of Jerusalem, there is a little hill: Golgotha is its name in Aramaic; locus Calvariae, in Latin: the place of skulls or Calvary. Offering no resistance, Jesus gives himself up to the execution of the sentence. He is to be spared nothing, and upon…
SEVILLE HOLY THURSDAY 2018: SOME ALTARS OF REPOSE OF THE MOST BLESSED SACRAMENT.
SEVILLE HOLY THURSDAY 2018: SOME ALTARS OF REPOSE OF THE MOST BLESSED SACRAMENT. LORD JESUS, WE BELIEVE THAT YOU ARE TRULY, REALLY AND SUBSTANTIALLY PRESENT IN THE MOST HOLY EUCHARIST! THANK YOU, FORGIVE AND HELP US, WE LOVE YOU! PANGE LINGUA HYMN IN LATIN AND ENGLISH Pange, lingua, gloriósi córporis mystérium, sanguinísque pretiósi, quem in…
SEVILLE HOLY WEDNESDAY 2018: SANTÍSIMO CRISTO DE LA SED.
SEVILLE HOLY WEDNESDAY 2018: SANTÍSIMO CRISTO DE LA SED. “Sed” is the Spanish word for thirst. This religious image seems to depict Our Lord in the following scene: “aware that everything was now finished, in order that the Scripture might be fulfilled, Jesus said, ‘I thirst.’ There was a vessel filled with common wine. So…
JESUS ANTE CAIFÁS (Seville). Best with sound.
JESUS ANTE CAIFÁS (Seville). Best with sound. Watch how the “costaleros” or float-bearers of the Confraternity of San Gonzalo, reputed as the best in Seville, impressively carry the processional carriage… GOSPEL MEDITATION Caiaphas, the high priest said to him, “I order you to tell us under oath before the living God whether you are…
PALM SUNDAY 2018 (SEVILLE). A VERY EMOTIVE AV OF MARIA SANTISIMA DE LA ESTRELLA. YOU MIGHT WANT TO CONSOLE OUR LADY.
PALM SUNDAY 2018 (SEVILLE). A VERY EMOTIVE AV OF MARIA SANTISIMA DE LA ESTRELLA. YOU MIGHT WANT TO CONSOLE OUR LADY… Mother Mary, we wish to accompany you in your sorrows! Help us be faithful children of God and make us fall in love more with Our Lord Jesus Christ. We wish to repair for…
PALM SUNDAY 2018 (SEVILLE). NUESTRO JESUS EL DESPOJADO.
NUESTRO JESÚS EL DESPOJADO Palm Sunday 2018 Holy Week Seville “And kneeling before him, they mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” They spat upon him and took the reed and kept striking him on the head. And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the cloak, dressed him in his…
SEVILLE HOLY WEEK 2018. NUESTRO SEÑOR JESUCRISTO DE LA SAGRADA EXPIRACIÓN (1575. MARCOS CABRERA)
SEVILLE HOLY WEEK 2018. NUESTRO SEÑOR JESUCRISTO DE LA SAGRADA EXPIRACIÓN (1575. MARCOS CABRERA) This is one of the best crucifixes in Seville, dating back 16th century. After doing my afternoon prayer yesterday, I went to visit the chapel where this image is kept and fortunately, and finally, I found the chapel opened. In the…
SEVILLE HOLY WEEK 2018. MARIA SANTISIMA DE LAS AGUAS.LET US NOT LEAVE OUR MOTHER ALONE.
SEVILLE HOLY WEEK 2018. MARIA SANTISIMA DE LAS AGUAS. LET US NOT LEAVE OUR MOTHER ALONE. Where has thy Beloved gone, o fairest of women? Where has he whom thou lovest gone, and we will seek him with thee?” (Cant 5:17). The Blessed Virgin is our Mother, and we do not wish to, we cannot,…
THE ART AND LOVE OF CARRYING A HEAVY LOAD: ESPERANZA DE MACARENA. Seville Holy Week
THE ART AND LOVE OF CARRYING A HEAVY LOAD: ESPERANZA DE MACARENA. Seville Holy Week In this AV you will realize how the float bearers of Esperanza de Macarena carry out their task of bearing the ton weight of the float with so much art and love as they make a turn in a junction…
SEVILLE HOLY WEEK SCENES 3
SEVILLE HOLY WEEK SCENES 3 I was surprised to see the 1st photo with an impressive glow, as it is, without filters nor retouching. Other photos show the spirit of sacrifice of penitents walking barefoot for 12 hours, and the bruised and swolled napes of the “costaleros” or float bearers, after carrying the floats during…
SEVILLE HOLY WEEK. EL SEÑOR DE LA PRESENTACIÓN. HERMANDAD DE SAN BENITO.
EL SEÑOR DE LA PRESENTACIÓN. HERMANDAD DE SAN BENITO. Pontius Pilate presents Jesus to the crowd: “Ecce homo!” As St. John 19:4-6 recounts: Pilate went out again, and said to them, “Behold, I am bringing him out to you, that you may know that I find no crime in him.” 5 So Jesus came…
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