Marissa C. Marasigan
This Holy Week, we Filipinos who profess to be Christians will hopefully take time to reflect on the passion and resurrection of Christ. After all, what other government gives its citizens time off from work on Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Black Saturday precisely to do this? (Answer: Guatemala. But in Spain, which introduced us to Catholicism, only Good Friday is a holiday. In the United States, which introduced us to Protestantism, no day in the Lenten week is observed as there is no holiday there during this week.)