Holy Week in the Philippines

Kwaresma is Lent. It is the season when Filipinos remember Christ's passion (his suffering and death) and resurrection.  It starts on Ash Wednesday, forty days before Easter Sunday. On this day, you will see Catholic Filipinos returning from church  with ash smudged on their foreheads in the shape of a cross.   If you don't have the mark, you will be asked if you have attended Mass.

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