At Easter the traditional thing is to follow the trades and processions on TVE’s La 2. This year they have projected their television attention on Good Thursday and Good Friday on the Cathedral of the Armed Forces of Madrid –former Church of Las Bernardas– perhaps due to the warlike climate that we live with the ukrainian war, which is the great contest that TV talks about as if it were the only one there is. In reality, a dozen more coexist on the planet, of which no chain remembers, let’s take for example the bombings of Saudi Arabia against Yemen, as horrifying as those of Ukraine. The officiant of the Cathedral of the Armed Forces was the military archbishop Juan Antonio Aznareza unique ecclesiastical position because he is the only bishop whose appointment does not depend on the Pope but on the King from Spain. In his two homilies he didn’t refer to any of these dozen wars and massacres that are going on around the world right now, but he did make an interesting caveat when he spoke of the Foot Washing ceremony by Jesus to his disciples. He said: «There is another way to wash them: simply, not dirtying them». And he explained that using others for our benefit is disgusting filth. Good metaphor. Today there is no need to kneel down and wash someone’s feet. Just by not exploiting or abusing anyone, it would be enough for the misnamed globalization to become harmonization, which is what we should aspire to.
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In terms of processions, perhaps the most original has been that of ‘El intermedia’ (The sixth) on Saint Paul (Married) Patron Saint of the Betrayed, a print of great rarity because it is the only ‘step’ that, leaving the ‘Pepera’ Cathedral in Genoa, did not return there when finished. Surely, the carrying brothers themselves threw it off the cliff.
In the ‘Polish’ sanctuary of TV-3 (‘Polònia’) they were inclined this year to stage the moment of Moses bearing the ‘Indepetic’ Tablets of the Law. Ah! They have been forced to mobilize all the staff of the program because the number of Moses that appeared was barbaric. Laura Borras with the tables of Our Lord Puigdemont, Pere Aragones with those of monsignor Junqueras, Eulalia Reguant with burning boards as ‘containers’, Elisenda Paluzie also with theirs… That ended in a war at the tables, a bloody battle of different and conflicting ‘independent’ commandments. It has been bloody but, indeed, it is what it is.