PANATA AT PANANAMPALATAYA SA PANAHON NG PANDEMYA: SUSTAINABILITY OF RELIGIOUS CULTURAL PRACTICES AMIDST COVID-19 PANDEMIC
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https://doi.org/10.18623/rvd.v22.n5.3729Keywords:
Panata, Pananampalataya, Sustainability, Religious Devotion, Cultural PracticeAbstract
Self-flagellation is one of the religious rituals in Central Luzon, Philippines, where penitents roam around the area of Bulacan, Nueva Ecija, and Pampanga, half-naked with a crown made of twigs and their faces are covered with a used cloth while hitting their back by a whip made of nylon string tied with bamboo strips called “bolyos” during Lenten Season and Holy Week. Every penitent who executes self-flagellation vowed to perform the ritual every year as an act of thanksgiving, supplication, and atonement continuously according to one’s personal promise. Normally, penitents vowed to perform self-flagellation for ten to fifteen consecutive years. During the COVID-19 pandemic, quarantine and hard lockdowns were imposed, and both government and church authorities banned all religious gatherings, including spiritual devotions. This paper presented several ways in which religious believers and penitents sustain their annual “panata” or personal vow to perform self-flagellation in public, notwithstanding the prohibition by the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) for COVID-19 for the management of Emerging Infectious diseases and the live experiences of the flagellants.
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