As a nation that highly values religious traditions, Holy Week in the Philippines is celebrated in total solemnity.

Both Christian and superstitious traditions mix in remembering the passion and death of Jesus Christ. Many still practice not eating pork/beef during the Lenten season, while others acquire some other forms of penance or fasting. I remember being told by my grandparents not to take a bath/shower on Good Friday, or to be exhuberant in this day of ‘mourning’.