Easter at Makati

Last Black Saturday, me, my mom and brother spent an overnight in Dusit Thani Hotel in Makati and we went all over the place in Glorietta and Greenbelt as well. In addition, I attended the Easter Vigil in Greenbelt Chapel. I won't be going into too much details over what happened but I'll just post some pictures from back then.

@ Greenbelt

Greenbelt chapel

At the lobby. When we came, the lobby had the smell of perfume all over it.

Swimming pool, Dusit Thani. Quite small actually, but nice nonetheless.

Easter Vigil at the Greenbelt Chapel

Mater Alegria, Greenbelt Chapel

Christ is Risen!

EDSA, taken from our room on Easter Sunday morning. If only it were like this more often...

Breakfast buffet at Dusit Thani. The food was awesome

Easter bunny

Easter bunnies. So cute... :P

Glorietta, Easter Sunday morning

Bought milk tea @ Happy Lemon Glorietta

Dusit Thani Manila

EDSA, later in the morning

Traffic builds up

Last picture before we left.

Good Friday 2014 - Prusisyon ng Biyernes Santo sa Marikina - Part 2

More pictures from the Good Friday procession in Marikina.

These carozzas are from the procession of an IFI church

The Good Friday procession from OLA in front of Marikina Sports Center

The procession along J.P. Rizal, Marikina

Good Friday 2014 - Our Lady of the Abandoned Church, Marikina (OLA Marikina)

Dambana ng Ina ng mga Walang Mag-Ampon, Marikina

Last Good Friday, I went to the Shrine of Our Lady of the Abandoned, the main church of Marikina City and the home of it's patroness, Nuestra Senora de los Desamparados de Marikina. The reason why was to see the Good Friday procession of the place which had over 70 carozzas taking part. On a personal note, it was in Marikina I had my grade school and a part of my childhood. While I did spend my childhood years in Marikina, this wasn't our parish and I went to church at a chapel somewhere there before I moved to where I am now in Quezon City. The church has been renovated quite a lot and the interior is now different from how it was. It is now a very beautiful church. The church is Marikina's 2nd oldest church (the oldest is this small chapel, which I have not been to yet).

 

The interior has been through many renovations already. It wasn't like this before. This result is just amazing. It's a must see church in Marikina.

The altar images were veiled because it was Good Friday.

These paintings were a very new addition to the church.