After Palm Sunday, the events programmed for this Holy Week in the parish of San Ginés Obispo in Arrecife continue to be celebrated, thus complying with the established calendar. On Wednesday at 7:30 p.m., the Eucharist was celebrated, presided over by Jesús Sastre García, Diocesan priest of Madrid, assisted by Juan Carlos Medina, titular parish priest of San Ginés, and the Parish Choir animated the songs of the celebration.
After the Eucharist, the procession of the 'Holy Encounter' took place, so called because at one point along the route, Jesus the Nazarene meets his mother, the Virgin Mary.
The route of this procession takes two different paths through the streets of Arrecife, where the parishioners accompany the images with great recollection. In the throne next to the Nazarene with the Cross on his back, the images of San Juan, Veronica, and Magdalena accompany him, with the music band 'La Unión Musical de Lanzarote', directed by Professor Pepe Artiles, leading the way.
In the other direction, the parishioners accompany Our Lady of Sorrows until they reach La Plazuela, the place where the 'Holy Encounter' takes place. At this moment, the chords of the music band stop playing and the sepulchral silence is interrupted by a prolonged applause, immediately after which Juan Carlos Medina, parish priest of San Ginés, invites those present to reflect on the meaning that this moment has for Catholics together with the Nazarene and the Dolorosa. The parish priest pointed out that "it should not remain just another procession and that moments like these help us to meet those brothers and sisters to whom we do not speak or those parents whom we do not visit or to lend a helping hand to the helpless friend, only then, moments like these make sense if we do it as the Nazarene and his mother Mary did for all of us."
After these words of reflection, the procession started again, led by the music band 'La Unión de Lanzarote', followed by the images, the celebrating priests and parishioners to the mother church of San Ginés Obispo, thus ending one of the days where the Catholic community gathered to commemorate the path that Jesus of Nazareth traveled to Calvary.
