"In Mexico City, meanwhile, more than 500,000 people turned out for the annual Passion play in the capital's working class Iztapalapa neighborhood. Thousands participated in the procession, many lugging heavy crosses through the streets.
Officials said it was the 164th year that the Passion play has been enacted in the neighborhood, although there are references to earlier performances in Mexico City going back to the 16th century.
In the Mexican silver-mining town of Taxco, hooded men belonging to a Catholic brotherhood slapped their backs bloody with nail-studded whips and dragged their shackled bare feet across rough cobblestone streets. Others carried thorny blackberry branches tied across their outstretched arms." By STEVE WEIZMAN, Associated Press Writer
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Today we heard drums in the street. Not sure what was going on, we went out to see. We assumed it was a parade or something. Sure enough it was a parade into the temple across the street. They were carrying a picture of the “VIRGIN Chestojova” into the temple. It just goes to show how so many have given up all truth for the lies of Satan. They celebrate and praise the virgin during a time that is supposedly when Jesus was crucified. It's so frustrating to see the mockery that many Catholics have made of Christ!
Although the test is dealing with "washing hands" and ritual cleansing, Jesus words could not be more appropiate to the situation at hand:
"He replied, "Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites; as it is written: 'These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. 7 They worship me in vain; their teachings are but rules taught by men.' 8 You have let go of the commands of God and are holding on to the traditions of men." 9 And he said to them: "You have a fine way of setting aside the commands of God in order to observe your own traditions!" Mark 7:6-9
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