Rappler's latest stories on Holy Week 2020
How virus changed Vatican's Holy Week, Easter Sunday celebrations
Here is a timeline with videos showing the way COVID-19 has affected the Vatican
[FULL TEXT] Pope Francis' Easter message in the time of COVID-19
Indifference, self-centeredness, division, and forgetfulness are not words we want to hear at this time. We want to ban these words forever!
Pope Francis marks 'Easter of solitude' in coronavirus lockdown
'For many, this is an Easter of solitude lived amid the sorrow and hardship that the pandemic is causing, from physical suffering to economic difficulties,' the Pope says inside the cavernous but near empty Saint Paul's Cathedral
Easter reflections from Bea de Leon
'Maybe it’s time to think bigger. Maybe it’s time to revisit those dreams we have long set aside because they seemed so impossible'
LIVE: Easter Sunday 2020 - Mass with Pope Francis
Bookmark this page to watch the live online Mass led by Pope Francis at 5 pm, Manila time, on Easter Sunday
IN PHOTOS: Churchgoers 'present' despite empty pews on Easter 2020
From drive-by processions to photos of parishioners taped on church pews, here is how Filipinos celebrated Easter in the time of COVID-19
Duterte to Filipinos on Easter Sunday: 'Find strength in the narrative of the Resurrection’
President Rodrigo Duterte talks of the hope brought by the Risen Christ as the Philippines continues to battle the coronavirus pandemic
[REFLECTIONS] Stories and dreams: Easter in the time of COVID-19
We can rebuild from the ruins. We can rebuild with one another.
[REFLECTIONS] Dare we not speak of Easter
We can surely speak of Easter even in the midst of this crisis, but dare we not speak of Easter if this pandemic does not change us
[REFLECTIONS] Finding the risen Christ
We participate in Christ's resurrection if we desire not just to be saved from COVID-19 but to help in saving people from this disease
LIVE: Easter Vigil Mass with Ateneo president Fr Jett Villarin, SJ
Bookmark this page to watch the live online Easter Vigil Mass with Fr Jett Villarin, SJ, at 8 pm on Saturday
[REFLECTIONS] Easter hope rises from the depths of the pandemic
For those who have faith, death is not the end of life but marks the beginning of another journey. It is when life is transformed, and all of life’s sorrows are converted into a passage into another realm.
Global coronavirus deaths top 100,000 ahead of locked-down Easter
Easter celebrations that would normally see churches around the world packed with parishioners are replaced by an eerie emptiness
12-year-old boy makes own tableaux display for 'palibot'
John Maeson Navarro creates the statues displayed in their barangay in Abra
LIVE: Good Friday 2020 with Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle
Bookmark this page to watch the live online Good Friday service with Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle at 9 pm
[REFLECTIONS] Silence is the language of love
Beyond this pandemic and unto life everlasting, may our only regret and sadness be that we have not loved enough
LIVE: Good Friday 2020 with Archbishop Soc Villegas
Bookmark this page to watch the live online Celebration of the Lord's Passion with Archbishop Socrates Villegas at 2 pm on Good Friday
IN PHOTOS: Catholics get creative in 1st Holy Week under quarantine
This Holy Week, what used to be done inside jam-packed churches have been brought out into the empty streets
Pope guides locked-down world through virtual Easter
'We can either get depressed and alienated... or we can get creative,' says Pope Francis
[REFLECTIONS] The good about Good Friday
We are called by God to uphold justice and protect the least, the last, and the lost during this time of crisis
[REFLECTIONS] Panlaban sa virus
Bishop Pablo Virgilio David draws Holy Week reflections from a recent Rappler report about a COVID-19 frontliner who herself contracted the dreaded disease
[REFLECTIONS] A lot of good will come out of this period
There is goodness everywhere now even in the middle of great sadness. And there is so much faith and full dependence on the One who sees everything.
IN PHOTOS: Coronavirus empties Holy Week destination Baguio City
The local tourism industry's losses amount to around P375 million for the month of April, an estimate based only on the economy above ground. A big chunk of tourism revenue is an underground economy.
LIVE: Maundy Thursday 2020 - Mass with Bishop Ambo David
Bookmark this page to watch the live online Mass with Caloocan Bishop Pablo Virgilio David at 5 pm on Maundy Thursday
[REFLECTIONS] Do it best by doing nothing
This quarantine invites us to celebrate Passover as God originally commanded it. Stay inside. Let God be God as He passes by.
Ilocos Sur prays to a miraculous Crucified Christ to save world from coronavirus
'Apo Lakay, espalen na kami!' Ilocos Sur residents beg the Señor Santo Cristo Milagroso de Sinait, or 'Apo Lakay', for the same miracle he brought the province 400 years ago
[OPINYON] Tuloy pa rin ang Mahal na Araw
Tuloy ang Mahal na Araw kahit walang senakulo, kahit pa maraming naghuhugas-kamay para maging totoong malinis o kaya’y maging malinis na gaya ni Pilato
Observe Holy Week from home with this virtual stations of the cross
Keep up with your Holy Week traditions from the safety of your own home
[REFLECTIONS] Why do we suffer?
Let us not focus on the suffering, but on what we can do to alleviate it
[REFLECTIONS] We need to think and re-think our theology
Today, we are challenged by John in his letter: 'We know love by this, that he laid down his life for us—and we ought to lay down our lives for one another'
LIST: Restaurants, food delivery services, recipes for Holy Week
For Catholics observing Lent, here are a few seafood options to consider for the Holy Week
Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli to sing on Easter from empty Milan Cathedral
Bocelli's live Easter Sunday performance of sacred music will be streamed online on YouTube
[REFLECTIONS] Holy Week and COVID-19: Embracing uncertainty
We cannot and must not escape this reality of uncertainty. We have to face it, pray over it, and wrestle with it – and perhaps let go of the need to know why.
[REFLECTIONS] Business temporarily closed: Jesus, what now?
It was like God was telling me: 'Kirk, you guys claim that your business is about me, that everything you do is for me. Put your money where your mouth is.'
[REFLECTIONS] Faith in the risen Jesus amid the coronavirus
It is clearly not the powerful and influential in society that we must attend to but those who are weak and vulnerable
LIST: Cebu and Davao supermarket schedules, Holy Week 2020
Check out the list of store hours for certain areas in Visayas and Mindanao
[REFLECTIONS] When no one will say 'I am sick'
The Bible offers comforting answers to questions we have in this time of global pandemic
LIST: Metro Manila supermarket schedules, Holy Week 2020
Check out schedules here
WATCH: Visita Iglesia 2020
St Pauls Philippines takes pilgrims rendered homebound by COVID-19 to a virtual Visita Iglesia of the ancient churches of the Archdiocese of Nueva Segovia in Ilocos Sur
Close to their flock, at a distance: Priests find ways to bless 'palaspas'
'Let it be a statement of hope: There is going to be new life, new creation, after COVID-19,' says Caloocan Bishop Pablo Virgilio David
LIVE: Palm Sunday 2020 with Pope Francis
Bookmark this page to watch the online Palm Sunday Mass led by Pope Francis, live from Vatican City at 5 pm (Manila time)
LIVE: Palm Sunday 2020 with Cardinal Tagle
Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle leads an online Palm Sunday Mass at 2 pm, Manila time, from the Pontificio Collegio Filippino in Rome
[REFLECTIONS] Don’t get tired of waving your palms
Proclaim our coming victory over this pandemic, a victory only possible if we don't give up on ourselves, if we don't give up on each other, if we don't give up on God
Catholics in quarantine mark first online Holy Week
‘There is still the Holy Week but we celebrate it differently, and hopefully, more deeply,’ says Bishop Broderick Pabillo of Manila
[REFLECTIONS] Look out for the loneliest amid the pandemic – Pope Francis
Even if we are isolated, thought and spirit can go far with the creativity of love. This is what we need today: the creativity of love.
WATCH: Stations of the Cross 2020
St Pauls Philippines takes the faithful through the Way of the Cross in Tagudin, Ilocos Sur
[REFLECTIONS] Turning the coronavirus crisis into opportunity
A spiritual teacher, Eckhart Tolle, gives us a piece of advice to overcome negative emotions: Live in the now
[REFLECTIONS] Why, Lord?
We must have the courage to declare with hope: We are Christians. We believe in happy endings. If it’s not yet happy, then it’s not yet the end.
[REFLECTIONS] Glimpses of God’s presence amid a pandemic
Good Friday may have come too soon for us, but in hope we will experience Easter
DOLE allows firms to defer giving holiday pay for Holy Week
Payment of holiday pay for April 9, 10, and 11 can be deferred until 'the normal operations of the establishment [are] in place'
