Presentation of Easter in Lugo 2017
Holy Week in Lugo
Holy Week is one of the most awaited moments by all the inhabitants of Lugo. Every year, on the occasion of Holy Week, the Brotherhoods and Brotherhoods of Lugo take their Pasos in procession. The Lugo Cathedral becomes the center of non-stop activity. The center of the city solemnly commemorates the Crucifixion, Death and Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ .
The image of San Froilán , on its plinth on the façade of the Cathedral of Santa María, will observe how one Holy Week more incense surrounds brothers and religious images during the processions.
Our Holy Week Items store in Lugo , located on Calle Nicomedes Pastor Díaz, is, like every Holy Week, a witness to the feeling and devotion that the processions arouse among the people of Lugo.
Holy Week in Lugo, poster and programme.
On March 29, 2017, the poster and program for Holy Week in Lugo was presented . The act was held in the Bishopric of the capital of Lugo. Vicar General of the diocese, Mario Vázquez Carballo and Ramón Basanta, coordinator of the Board of Brotherhoods of the city of Lugo, participated in it.
As Ramón Basanta explained, this year Holy Week in the walled city will begin on March 31 , with the proclamation by the journalist, Pilar Falcón Osorio, at 8:30 p.m. in the church of Santiago “A Nova” in Lugo.
Basanta wanted to highlight that approximately 2,500 people have participated in the organization of Holy Week this year.
Holy Week in Lugo, data of interest
Bishop of Lugo, Msgr. Alfonso Carrasco Rouco (who, at his moment, blessed the inauguration of our shop for brotherhood articles ), during the presentation of Holy Week in Lugo in 2016, spoke about the particularities of the Lugo celebration.
The bishop reported that, during the last Ad Limina Visit of the Galician bishops to the Holy See , Pope Francis "has shown great interest in the tradition of the Permanent Exhibition of the Blessed Sacrament in our cathedral, something that makes our city unique and that characterizes , also, our Holy Week”.
He also recalled that the Holy Father entrusted him that "we must go out into the street." "The Church has to take to the streets, and it frequently insists on it." In addition, he commented that Holy Week is "one of the moments in which the Christian people take to the streets and, therefore, it is a satisfaction." "I wish that the people of Lugo can live this Holy Week from the heart," he concluded.
Holy Week in Lugo, candidate for Festival of National Tourist Interest.
Basanta also wanted to talk about the situation in which the candidacy of Holy Week in Lugo for a Festival of National Tourist Interest finds itself. As he said, currently the Board of Brotherhoods is compiling the necessary documentation to present the candidacy. Basanta highlighted the "firm" support that the Board of Brotherhoods has received from the Lugo City Council to achieve this long-awaited recognition.
The coordinator of the Board of Brotherhoods from Lugo did not want to end his speech without remembering Rosita Lourido, great promoter of the brotherhood of "A Borriquiña" (Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem) , who died in 2013.
The Bishop spoke of the candidacy of Holy Week in Lugo for a Festival of National Tourist Interest (as other Galician celebrations have already achieved, such as Holy Week in Ferrol and Holy Week in Viveiro , he highlighted the "privilege" that the Lugo cathedral and by extension its Holy Week, being the only one in the world in which the Blessed Sacrament is exposed 24 hours a day, 365 days a year "It is an incomparable singularity," said Carrasco Rouco, because there is "no cathedral in the in the world in which the Blessed Sacrament is permanently exposed". In addition, he wanted to remember that Holy Week in Lugo "is the only one that on Holy Thursday, before proceeding to reserve the Blessed Sacrament, has the privilege, since 1963, of moving processionally the Sacred Form through the streets of our city”.