A Via Sacra

The Sacred Way. So, Good Friday is celebrated in Brazil and in the States with Passion of the Christ plays. Here though they seem to be on another level. I learned from my Catholic roommate and director that within every Catholic church are the 10 steps of Jesus' death and resurrection. Cool. So, the Catholic church here put on a play and everybody that was left in the city was there. It reminded me of going to watch 4th of July fireworks complete with vendors, balloons, glow sticks, etc. It started at 8pm. There was an hour of praise and worship and the play began at 9. It lasted about 2 hours.

What was different about this play for me was that it didn't just take place on stage. It moved throughout the football field sized space we were in and used the extras as human ropes to block people from bombarding the main characters. Super elaborate, the character of Jesus ascended into the air on a electric lift. They really "hung" the character from a cross next to two other men (I assume they had small footrests). A man playing Judas near Sao Paulo almost died after accidentally hanging himself for real but I hope he's ok now. In any case I feel like my pictures though dark could probably describe it better than I could so here you go...

The Narrator

Palm Sunday

On trial

Also, not that this has anything to do with anything but just thought I'd mention that I took a shirt out of my cabinet. It was all sticky and I couldn't figure out why. A cough drop melted under it.