Sinjin’s Summer Vacation begins

Since my dad began working in Manila, our family spends our annual summer vacation in Luzon. We visit new destinations every weekend and holiday during our stay. This year would be our 6th summer vacation in Luzon. On our first summer vacation in Luzon, we only stayed for two weeks but on every year, we’ve [...]

Today is Good Friday

Sinjin’s House joins the Catholic faithful in the observance of Good Friday.

On this day, let us commemorate the passion, or suffering, and death on the cross of our Lord, Jesus Christ. Let us spend this day in fasting, prayer, repentance, and meditation on the agony and suffering of Christ on the cross.

Sinjin’s Visita Iglesia

Today is Holy Thursday and I, together with my family, will do the Visita Iglesia, a tradition that we have been doing every Holy Thursday.
What is the Visita Iglesia?
Visita Iglesia is traditionally a visit of only seven (7) churches, done on the evening of Holy Thursday after the Mass Commemorating the Last Supper and Washing [...]

Today is Palm Sunday

Holy Week starts today. To Catholics, Orthodox Christians, High Anglicans and High Episcopalians and the Filipino independent Catholics also known as the Aglipayans—to those of these faiths who still value the observances of the Church—Holy Week, in the forty days of Lent, stands out as the preeminent week of penance.

photo by Manila Daily Photo (Flickr)

A gallery of Lenten food

In the observance of Holy Week, here’s a gallery of food to cook or serve:

Soup: Crab and corn, sinigang na bangus or shrimp, tinolang isda.
Fish: Grilled anduhaw, fried katambak or mamsa, steamed Lapu-Lapu, baked blue marlin, tangigue with salted, black beans, Lapu-Lapu with sweet and sour sauce, stuffed bangus, fish ball, fish croquette.
Squid: Adobong pusit, [...]