Eksena sa Pista ng Nazareno

Isa sa mga inaabangan sa pagpasok ng bagong taon ay ang kapistahan ng itim na Nazareno na ginaganap tuwing ika-9 ng Enero kung saan dinadayo ito hindi lamang ng mga deboto pati na rin ng mga ilan mga dayuhan upang maranasan ang itinatawag na trraslación, kung saan mangagaling muna ito sa Quirino Grandstand patungo sa kanyang tahanan sa simbahan ng Quiapo.

Narito ang ilan sa aking mga kuhang mga larawan na naganap sa pista ng Nazareno.

Mula sa simbahan ng Quiapo

Hanggang sa tulay.

Patungo sa Hidalgo Street at sa simbahan ng San Sebastian

Ronnie Liang spotted at the Feast of Nazarene, he's doing a movie entitled "Esoterica Manila" under the Film Development Council Of The Phils.

At ito na ang eksena ng pagdating ng Poong Nazareno.

Masasabi kung masayang makigulo sa pista ng Nazareno kahit na sabihin nating mahirap makipagsiksikan dito pero sabi nga nila wala naman mawawala kung susubukan mo hindi ba?

Isa di ko matandaan kung ito ba ang una kung pagkakataon na pumunta sa pista ng Nazareno sapagkat ang aking ama ay naging deboto rin nito at isa pa malapit lamang dito ang trabaho niya dati.

Tinatanong mo ba ako kung nakipagsiksikan ako, oo sobrang naramdaman ko din ang alon ng tao, buti na lamang ay nalagpasan ko ito at isang pasasalamat ito.

Trivia:

Revival of the Dungaw
On 9 January 2014, an old tradition called Dungaw in Tagalog (a calque of its Spanish name Mirata, "to see" or "to look") was revived and reincorporated into the Traslación after old documents attesting to its practise were re-discovered. The custom involves the Black Nazarene being made to stop briefly at Plaza del Carmen fronting the neo-gothic Basilica Minore de San Sebastián. After the recitation of the rosary by the congregation and while the bells in San Sebastián's twin spires peal, the resident Recollect priests remove the statue of Our Lady of Mount Carmel from its shrine in the retablo mayor (high altar). This image, which was given to the Recollects in 1617 by a Carmelite nunnery in Mexico City, is then brought on a high platform at the side of the church, where it is lifted up to "see" and "meet" the Black Nazarene.[3] The moment is accompanied by relative silence and fervent prayer on the part of devotees, and shortly thereafter the priests slowly turn the Virgin's statue so that it "watches" the Black Nazarene depart the vicinity of Plaza del Carmen.


It is notable how the images are from a similar period and provenance, and that the practise echoes the Fourth Station of the Cross, which commemorates how Christ met his mother, the Virgin Mary, as he was walking to his crucifixion.

Special credit to wikipedia for the trivia.