Good Friday and our Family Tradition

It's Good Friday today, and where I live Good Friday is big. The usual city life has to be halted to give way for prayer, moments of silence, and spiritual reflection. But like any other tradition, the remembrance of Good Friday in the Philippines is slowly buckling to change: no longer will you see empty streets or rows and rows of closed shops during Good Friday like the way it was a couple of decades ago.

Clearly the times are changing; the traditions are slowly fading. But until Good Friday remains a special day of the year for our family, we (together with my 3 siblings) will continue to move heaven and earth to go home where we came from every Good Friday of the year.