FMM: Faith on a Friday

Today is a Good Friday. And it's the 2nd Good Friday that the faithful are remembering the Passion of Christ from our homes.

Normally, Good Friday is spent doing the Visita Iglesia and attending the "Siete Palabras" mass in Churches. 

When we were kids, we'd often spend Good Friday in my Mom's hometown of Malinao, Albay, and we'd walk to the church just across the ancestral home to hear the "Siete Palabras." One of the highlights of that mass in Malinao is how the image of Christ on the cross passes on at the strike of 3:00pm. It's a poignant sight for all the mass goers there.

But while we can't go inside the Church during this time, one thing that this pandemic taught us is that faith is where we practice it. And even if it's been more than a year since I've last heard mass inside a proper Church, hearing it and participating in it online makes our home the House of God as well.

Faith should be boundless, and that's a truism these days. Wherever we may be, if we have Faith, if we practice our Faith, and if we share our Fatih, then He is with us.

This reminds me of one of my favourite Church hymns about Faith. A hymn that we used to sing a lot when I was part of the Grade School and High School choirs. And a fitting Friday Magic Madness song this Good Friday.

As we commemorate the ultimate sacrifice of Jesus, let's us also keep the Faith.