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PASYON – IS A PHILIPPINE NARRATIVE OF PASSION, DEATH, AND RESURRECTION
OF JESUS CHRIST IN A FORM OF SONG WITH A DRAMATIC THEME. IT IS A BOOK
OF STANZAS OF FIVE LINES OF EIGHT SYLLABLES. THE WHOLE TEXT IS CHANTED
AND KNOWN AS “PABASA” AND IS RECITED DURING HOLY WEEK (SEMANA SANTA).
SALUBONG – IS A RELIGIOUS RITUAL THAT
RE-ENACTS THE MEETING OF THE RISEN
CHRIST WITH HIS MOTHER ON THE DAWN
OF EASTER SUNDAY. IT IS PERFORMED
UNDER A PREPARED ARCH WHERE THE
VEILED IMAGE OF THE VIRGIN MARY HAS
BEEN PLACED.

• A CHILD DRESSED AS AN ANGEL IS LOWERED

BY ROPES FROM A HIGH PLATFORM TO LIFT
THE MOURNING VEIL OF THE GRIEVING
MOTHER WHILE OTHER CHILDREN DRESSED
IN ANGEL COSTUMES SING THE “REGINA
COELI LAETARE” MEANING “QUEEN OF
HEAVEN”.
SANTACRUZAN – IS A RELIGIOUS-HISTORICAL EVENT
THAT DRAMATIZE THE FINDING OF THE HOLY CROSS BY
THE QUEEN HELENA AND HER SON CONSTANTINE THE
GREAT. I T IS HELD THROUGHOUT THE PHILIPPINES
DURING THE MONTH OF MAY. AS THE SAGALAS AND
ESCORT PARADE THE STREETS OF THE COMMUNITY, THE
MUSIKO(BRASS BAND) ACCOMPANIES THEPROCESSION WITH
MUSIC “Dios Te Salve Maria”.
SHORT QUIZ: Answer the following questions correctly.
1. __________It is a book of stanzas of five lines of eight syllables. The whole text
is chanted and recited during Holy Week.
2. ________A religious- historical event that dramatizes the finding of Holy Cross
by the _____________ 3. and her son Constantine the Great.
4._________ It is a catholic festival held on the month of May.
5.__________A religious ritual that re-enacts the meeting of the Risen Christ with
His mother on the dawn of __________6. Sunday.
7. ____________ a fixed set of ceremonies, words, that are used during public
Worship in a religion.
8._________ It is a hymn which accompanies of religious observance and rituals.
9. The earliest known form of organized theater is __________.
10. ___________ A Lenten play that depicts events from the old and new
Testaments related to the life, sufferings and death of Jesus Christ.
ANSWERS:

1. PASYON
2. SANTACRUZAN
3. QUEEN HELENA
4. FLORES DE MAYO
5. SALUBONG
6. EASTER
7. LITURGY
8. DEVOTIONAL MUSIC
9. COMEDIA OR MORO-MORO
10.SENAKULO