The Andalusian Cultural Association (ACA) Brotherhood 15+1 of L’Hospitalet de Llobregat has returned this year to the streets after two years without processions due to the pandemic. Although the association took its first steps last Sunday, it was this Good Friday when the first of the great secular processions arrived, with Jesus of Nazarene and the Virgin of Sorrows. From 7 in the morning, numerous neighbors were already waiting in the Bobila square in Can Vidalet to see the departure of the two steps, which have arrived punctually at 8 o’clock and have displayed a entourage of nearly 400 participants. “Today is a very big day,” assured the attendees on the street. Among the organizers “nerves” and “very excited” They were the most repeated ideas.
“This is a factory of feelings.” In this way, the president of the Brotherhood 15+1 summed up the procession, Philip Navarro, who moments before taking the steps to the street assured that the carriers felt many “Nerves, nerves and more nerves”. And it is that the two years without processions due to covid-19 have become “very hard”.
In fact, Navarro has admitted that in January they had “very afraid”, since the irruption of the omicron variant It made us suspect that perhaps they would add a third year without going out on the street. “Luckily, in the end everything has improved and We have worked hard for two months to be here today,” Has celebrated.
The processions of the Brotherhood 15+1 are of the most outstanding in the metropolitan area, especially those of Good Friday, both this morning and tonight, “which is spectacular”, Navarro asserts. An example is the multitude of people who gather in the streets to see the steps and capture them with their mobile phones.
One of the singularities of the processions of L’Hospitalet is its lay Concept, which Navarro assures that “it still generates more sense of belonging, because the steps do not belong to any parish and belong to the people”. Despite the secularism, Navarro points out that the participants “feel the same respect and devotion than any other religious procession”. “We all believe in the same thing” it states.
A belief that was also shown by the attendees who They got up early to see the exit of the steps. Like Mari Carmen, who three years ago moved from L’Hospitalet to Sabadell and this Friday she didn’t want to miss the procession from the first hour. “I am Andalusian, and the Holy Week processions are a tradition that was instilled in me when I was little”, He explained, assuring that he felt an emotion and feelings “difficult to tell”.
“It is very difficult to describe what we feel today, especially after two years without a procession due to covid,” they added. Nerea and Luca, two young people who also did not want to miss the exit of the two steps “because Good Friday is one of the most important holidays for the neighborhood.”
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These two young people have wanted to see friends and relatives who participate in the procession, as does the son of María Elena, a neighbor who has reported that she got up at 5 in the morning to be in the front row. “I’ve been living here for 40 years and I enjoy the processions”, he assured, while emphasizing that this day “must be lived and felt, because it is impossible to explain”.
After this morning’s procession, at 8:00 p.m. the Brotherhood will once again take to the streets of Can Vidalet with the passage of the Christ of the Expiration. Tomorrow, Saturday, it will be the turn of the Holy Sepulcher and Our Lady of Solitude, while on Sunday a whole week of processions will end with the passage of the Risen Jesus and Our Lady of Remedies.