Semana Santa : The Last Week of Jesus' Life?

Semana Santa is the Spanish term for Holy Week, the week preceding Easter in the Catholic calendar. Semana Santa commemorates the last week of Jesus' life, beginning with His arrival in Jerusalem, celebrated on Palm Sunday, and culminating in His Resurrection on Easter Sunday. Spain and many other Catholic Spanish-speaking countries are known for their elaborate processions and celebrations during Semana Santa.

Nail - Pierced Hand

All through out these years, I always wondering why those people were celebrating this kind of  holiday. What was it's purpose or what was it's benefits for those who pay attention for such... Maybe you were thinking that I don't believed in God, definitely you have been mistaken. Who really knows what happened in these day. Is it just for a while for us to remember what Jesus did? Does this people really knows the benefit of the cross? of the blood? of His death? of His resurrection?

Anyway what does Christian means? In our English 101, the suffix -ian means "a person belong to". Christ + ian = CHRISTIAN, so we came up to a word  which means "a person belongs to Christ". I think this definition satisfies and needs no further explanation. In a larger sense, we are not referring to "getting religious", "joining a church" or even "believing and reciting correct creedal doctrines". The issue we address is "becoming a Christian." Christian is not a matter of external physical attachment to a social organization called a "church." Nor is becoming a Christian effected by mental assent to historical or theological principle of belief. Behavior modification and ritualistic repetition are not the essence of being a Christian. More of this on next post.

As you go on reading the following post, I prayed that some change in your heart and mind would occur because I believed real Christianity had find its way into your life.


Actually as a Christian, we should do a daily devotion that always reminds of what Jesus did at the cross of the Calvary, what's the sense of the crucifixion, and the benefits of the blood of Jesus that shed upon the cross. As a Christian you must know. If and only if you are a real Christian. Here is a video clip that preferably would make us to open our eyes, our mind, and our heart for us to see, to realize, and to have faith of what Semana Santa or Jesus' Passion want to implies in our lives.