Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Visita Iglesia 2009, Pampanga

Last Holy Thursday, our family decided to try something new for the Holy week. We tried to have a visita iglesia, where we would visit and pray on a number of churches. Since we were staying on Gapan, Nueva Ecija that week, we decided to visit churches there and on Pampanga.

We passed a number of churches along the way but they were all closed. We took a turn to the national park of Arayat but didn't got out of the car, we just wanted to see what's up there and it turns out to be a public resort. When we were around Mexico, Pampanga, I told my dad that I wanted to go to the church half-buried by lahar that can be seen from the highway going to Bataan. We did. It was called San Guillermo Parish Church in Bacolor and it was our first stop for the day. After some prayers, we looked around the church, and overheard a woman saying that it was the church where they shoot the teleserye, May Bukas Pa. After taking more pictures, we went to San Fernando, Pampanga.


My dad wants to visit the San Fernando Catherdral so it was our next stop. There were a lot of people and cars around the cathedral's parking area. We made some prayers and took some pictures and tried to figure out where to go next.


We did not know any other churches near the area and if we go further to Bataan, it would be a very long trip so we decided to head back to Gapan. On the way back, we stopped at Razon's on Mexico which was thankfully open. We had some of their sisig, palabok, and of course, their famous halo-halo. It was a very hot day so that stop was very refreshing.

It was a very long trip back even though we were traveling rather fast on a straight highway. And that's pretty much it.

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