Rorate Caeli

Palm Sunday in the Philippines





Some pictures of Palm Sunday in Asia's bastion of Catholicism -- a display of different kinds of inculturation: some that are deeply traditional in spirit (the coconut palm fronds), others that violate the liturgical traditions of the Roman Rite (stoles placed over chasubles, the absence of traditional chants). I find our Palm Sunday processions to be deeply emblematic of the battle between tradition and modernity in the Catholic Church in Asia.