16) Student Choice:
For my student choice, I am going to write about how Mexican people celebrate Easter. We have a variety of traditional Easter customs around the country. However, I will write about my original place Mexico City. Each year at Easter in Iztapalapa borough of Mexico City we celebrate Semana Santa (Holy Week) with a grand passion play of the story of Jesus Chris. This is the best thing to do in Mexico. Roman Catholicism is the main religion in Mexico as well we have beliefs on Jesus. The story of Jesus takes a big place in the Catholic religion. During Semana Santa, we focused a lot on the suffering aspect in how Jesus suffered greatly for our sins. This week is a passion play, a reenactment of the week of the trial that Jesus went through at the hands of Jewish people and the Roman persecution. Basically, This week we reenact the entire story of Jesus Christ’s persecution from the beginning to the end. Friday is the day that Jesus has sentenced death and died on a cross. In Iztapalapa, we go through the whole motion. People put Jesus (a character playing Jesus) on trial and he carries an actually real heavy cross up a long, long hill while people hurl insults and throw things at him. Then, the monk crucifies the character who is playing Jesus by which they genuinely hang this person on a cross. They tying him up not nailing things into his body and that's the way we reenact and remember Jesus ’s crucifixion and the love he has for us.
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Sabatino
4/25/2017 07:00:26 pm
I enjoyed reading this and learning more about your culture. I was raised in a Catholic family so I can relate to much of this. Thanks for sharing.
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