Let The Lunacy Begin!

[wasabi]

Any cartoons drawn of this image of Jesus?

[BaitongBoy]

^^Heh...Just gotta roll with it, Dawg...Like any other faith...Interesting to observe some of the Buddhist stuff when it's low-key...

Removal of spells can be a lot of fun...Fascinating and strange...

[thaimeme]

Any cartoons drawn of this image of Jesus?

Like this one?

[misskit]

Manila cops are issued diapers for the event.



It's going to be a long shift!

[ltnt]

^Very large Kotex eh Ms. Kit?

[BaitongBoy]

For those heavy papal days...

[misskit]

Black Nazarene draws 5M devotees

More than 5 million barefoot devotees paraded the centuries-old icon of the Black Nazarene through Manila on Friday, in what Church officials described as a dry run for the visit of Pope Francis to the Philippines next week, according to INQUIRER.net.
Pope Francis is arriving in Manila on Jan 15 for a five-day visit that will include a meeting with survivors of last year’s earthquake in Bohol province and Supertyphoon “Haiyan” in Leyte province.


Organizers of the papal visit are expecting to top the 4-million attendance at the Mass said by St. John Paul II at Rizal Park to cap the World Youth Day celebration and his visit to Manila in January 1995.

“Yes, the Black Nazarene fiesta is a dress rehearsal for the papal visit, especially the culminating Mass at Quirino Grandstand in Luneta, Manila, on Jan. 18,” the Rev. Anton Pascual, head of the papal visit subcommittee on media relations, said. “Perhaps 5 million attendees present is an understatement since Pope Francis’ popularity soared globally as iconic,” said Pascual, who is also the executive director of the charity Caritas Manila.

About 5,000 policemen were deployed for the procession, with 1,000 military personnel on standby, Senior Supt Jigs Coronel of the Manila police said.

“This is like a mini-papal event in scope,” Coronel said. “We’ll be able to put to test our security plans, crowd control, anticrime measures, emergency and medical response.”

For next week’s papal visit, 40,000 military personnel and 25,000 policemen will be deployed to secure the Pope and keep order at public events in Manila and Leyte.

Black Nazarene draws 5M devotees - Thai PBS English News

[ossierob]

I have done the Easter festivities but not interested in this one.....just too far over the top to be even mildly interesting

[cdnski12]

I Just finished reading "Hitler's Pope" about Pius 12 (Pacelli). Priests & other Religious Ministers of all religious persuasions are the World's 2nd oldest profession.

[Markus]

The Feast of The Black Nazarene kicks off in Manila tomorrow. Basically, this little slice of religious insanity involves slightly more than 10 MILLION Filipinos descending on Manila for about three days, trampling each other to try to touch a statue of some black guy.

Then, four or five days later the Pope, whose church has done the best possible job of keeping Filipino families poor for centuries, shows up for a four-day frenzy of lunacy. Six MILLION are expected just to hear one mass in a Manila park.

Then weeks to clean up the mess. Manila's off my list until February.

How did the Pope keep the PH poor ?

[BaitongBoy]

^Wait for it...No birth control and taking "donations"...For a start, methinks...

[ltnt]

I just saw an article calling the Pope a "Marxist!" Reading of his history in Argentina he definitely has those leanings. As Pope of course he'll live in splendor while the adoring mobs will live in squalor...typical Marxist.

[Davis Knowlton]

It kicks off tomorrow evening. To add to the misery, a large tropical storm is expected to hit tomorrow. They blocked all the streets Tuesday to start doing dry runs. It took a friend of mine over 5 hours to get from the airport to Makati - usually well under an hour. Sooooo glad I no longer live in Manila.

[misskit]

[bowie]

Six million at mass. Incredible.

[thaimeme]

Six million at mass. Incredible.

Easier to exterminate - en masse.

[BaitongBoy]

Six million at mass. Incredible.

Yep...That was something...

[Davis Knowlton]

^The trash clean up is quite something too.

[PeeCoffee]

He's a rock star.
I'll bet the Rolling Stones couldn't get that with a free concert.

I can't fathom what the port-o-potty logistics must be like three million...let alone for six million.
(Shows you where my head must be at...and I've only been a member for three months ;-))

[Ozcol]

^ Maybe they are all wearing nappies like the Fuzz.

[Cujo]

Six million at mass. Incredible.

Six million brainwashed morons all in one place at one time, what would you do?

[Davis Knowlton]

^Stay home...50 miles south.

[withnallstoke]

Stay home...50 miles south.

Could you hear the Pinoy tannoy?

[Davis Knowlton]

^Nope. Quiet here..............

[Takeovers]

I heard he called the Filippine clergy corrupt. And he told people should not proliferate like rabbits.