GOOD FRIDAY: In Pictures (Around the World)

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What is the HECK is with the pointy hoods!!! :eek:

If I didn’t know any better…you know what I’m thinking don’t you??
 
What is the HECK is with the pointy hoods!!! :eek:

If I didn’t know any better…you know what I’m thinking don’t you??
 
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jlw:
What is the HECK is with the pointy hoods!!! :eek:

If I didn’t know any better…you know what I’m thinking don’t you??
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Ku Klux Klan? :hmmm:
 
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Ku Klux Klan? :hmmm:
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Right!!! Of all the pictures in the world to put in this 8 -pic slideshow, those are the ones the BBC includes regarding Christianity???
 
The link below the first one explains it. It is a group in Spain called the Penitents of Los Negritos brotherhood. They are in Seville, in southern Spain (so says the thread in the link above).
 
I spent a week in Spain when I was in high school and I saw the processions with the guys in the pointy hoods. It freaked me out! Boy was I glad I was protestant. Now it doesn’t bother me b/c I’ve just learned not to associate their costumes with the KKK.

The great thing about the Catholic Church- it’s not just about America and what we think is normal! I think it’s totally fine the BBC chose these pictures- they are from ALL over the world.

(Although I could never advocate the physical harm some people subject themselves to as penance on Good Friday).
 
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I was in central Spain for Holy Week about eleven years ago. The Easter processions (with the pointy hats and rodes) are common everywhere in Spain. I was also caught by surprise when I first saw them, but they have historical significance. I think the outfits are reminders of the Inquisition. The processions take place throughout all the towns and they are very solemn but beautiful ceremonies.

Unfortunately, the KKK in the United States borrowed the “look” to suit their own twisted needs.
 
I think there is an interesting segway here with liturgical dance.

WHOAH you say.

Yes I say.

TRIVIA:
Many will say that since African Catholics have liturgical dance then it should be okay to do it anywhere. However, in African culture dance is always done as an act of worship. There is no such thing as secular dancing. However, if you show the same dancers to Westerners, we have an eroticism that we associate with the whole thing. It is completely ingrained in our experience of “dance”, and no matter how you try to present it, our culture interprets that act in a certain way that is incompatible with the spirit of the liturgy.

So, our first reaction to the pointy hats is one of horror, whereas, in Spain, it is one of reverence. No matter how ward we try, we would feel uncomfortable.

Interesting how it is plainly obvious here, but there have been those who deny cultural influence in liturgical dance.
 
My town, is a very new procession, much worse than Sevilla or places in Andalusia and Castilla y León but there are faith, processions are only an expression of faith of people and this is good, we need christian facts but we need christian words too.
 
As far as the pointy hood thing its present in other latin american countries as well very popular in Brazil. THe traditions of the costume is from the middle ages and not from those who adpated it for a disguise. Remeber the KKK uses the Bible and the cross to suit their needs does that mean the cross and the Bible are evil? No evil immitates good in a very sick way.
 
The pointed hat or hood carries the sense of judgment and punishment. The interrogators of the Spanish Inquisition wore pointed hats, the KKK adapted that style in their costume.
 
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