ON Monday, the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, the Archdiocese of Tuguegarao formally ended the protracted celebration of the Quincentennial of Christianity in the Philippines. What had been planned to be a grandiose and mammoth celebration had to be pared down, no thanks to Covid and what we now realize to be the exaggerated restrictions imposed on us all.
Aside from local celebrations, there really was no national commemoration of the arrival of the Cross in the Philippines similar in scale to the International Eucharistic Congress held in Cebu some years ago. In fact, even in the Archdiocese of Tuguegarao, not a few were surprised that we were closing the Jubilee Door that they never realized had ever been opened! How could they? The government kept them behind closed doors!
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