The cross at the San Vicente Church ruins in Pangasinan
Many years passed, the solemnity of remembrance of the dead is never disturbed by the nuances of what we see today in many cemeteries across the country. There is an apparent change of the entire Filipino’s take on the events to be remembered for those who have long gone and passed on. Instead of remembering, we celebrate. To some, celebration of life of the loved departed will be most appropriate but others have also used it as an occasion to celebrate reunions of sort, right at the heart where grief and sorrow was felt many years passed. As I have seen it, many have made the occasion to change the way we remember the dead and replace it with a borrowed culture so distorted. Read more
