Holy Week continues in Lanzarote. This Wednesday, around 7:30 p.m., the parish of San Ginés Obispo in Arrecife, on the occasion of Holy Week, celebrated the Eucharist, which was presided over by Jesús Sastre, Diocesan priest of Madrid, and was assisted by Juan Carlos Medina, parish priest of San Ginés.
After the mass, the procession of the Holy Encounter took place, named so because at one point along the route, the Nazarene meets his mother Mary.
The route of this procession takes two different paths through the streets of Arrecife, where the parishioners accompany the images with great reverence. In the throne next to the Nazarene with the Cross on his back, San Juan, the Magdalene, and Veronica accompany him, and they are accompanied by the musical chords of the music band 'La Unión Musical de Lanzarote', directed by Professor Pepe Artiles.
In the other direction walks the image of Our Lady of Sorrows until reaching the point where the 'Holy Encounter' takes place, a moment in which the chords of the music band stop playing and a sepulchral silence is interrupted by a prolonged applause. Then, the parish priest Juan Carlos Medina, addressing the parishioners, invited them to reflect on the meaning that moments like the one they were experiencing with the Nazarene and the Dolorosa have for Catholics. Medina pointed out that "it should not remain just another procession, and that moments like these help us to meet those brothers to whom we do not speak or those parents whom we do not visit or the helpless, lend them a friendly hand, only then, moments like these make sense if we do it as the Nazarene and his Mary did for all of us".
After these words of reflection, the procession set off, led by 'La Unión Musical 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 gathers to commemorate the path that Jesus of Nazareth had to take to Calvary.
