A group of young women from Calasiao town in Pangasinan province is renewing their “panata” by walking to the Minor Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary of Manaoag, also called Manaoag Church, on Maundy Thursday. | yzsoteloINQ /PDI
“We would start walking at 4 p.m. on Maundy Thursday and arrive at the church at 7 p.m. or 8 p.m. It depends on how many stops we make along the way,” Maningding said.
“Some have readied ‘pancit,’ ‘arroz caldo,’ soup and other food that they give away to devotees,” Maningding said. “It is sort of a panata among a few people. They have a petition, a specific request to God, which they hope will be fulfilled by walking to Manaoag. Then many Pangasinenses caught on and joined the [group] in the following years,” Ramirez said.
According to Ramirez, people could hardly drive along major roads leading to Manaoag during Holy Week before the pandemic struck.“It has become nothing short of a phenomenon,” he said, adding that there was nothing wrong with the practice “as long as they are fulfilling their faith, a sacrifice and their means to get closer to God.”
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