[ESP-ING] Beginning of Holy Week as a Family

Holy Week began in my country and with it many people celebrate the devotion to God for the death and resurrection this morning we went first to church as every Sunday to worship and praise our God and thank him for all his goodness that we have received constantly throughout the week, I really enjoyed the service and especially the girls who were dancing, it makes me laugh because they were very focused on their dance and some were from one side to the other.

When I left the church I went to look for my father-in-law with my children, my husband had cooked a delicious soup to eat as a family, family unity is very important, when we arrived home the soup was ready so we served lunch, my father-in-law was happy because he does not leave his house much and we see him from time to time, at least I do when we visit him.

According to the old times it was not allowed to eat meat during Holy Week, however from a few years ago people eat what they can, before they ate only fish and in many places they sell dried fish, in this time people usually abuse with the price of it although they still sell a lot, we eat what we can if there is fish we eat fish if not meat or chicken, whatever we can, I do not know where they got that of only fish, I remember that when I was little it was like that, then when I grew up my mother did not pay attention to that.

Talking with my father-in-law at lunch he also had that tradition that was lost over the years, I remember that they said that if you ate meat you could die, or that you were going to become an animal, I know so many things that were lies, many of these traditions were invented by a person and everyone believed them, the good thing is that no one does anything about those doctrines that were lies, like many others.

We had a great lunch with the family and we also talked on the phone with some fierce relatives of the country to catch up on everything, the family is the greatest treasure we have on earth, so we must take care of it.

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Comenzó la Semana Santa en mi país y con ello muchas personas celebran la devoción a Dios por la muerte y resurrección esta mañana fuimos primero a la iglesia como todos los domingos adorar y alabar a nuestro Dios y darle gracias por toda su bondades que hemos recibido constantemente en toda la semana, me disfruté mucho el servicio y sobre todo de las niñas que estaban danzando, me da mucha risa porque ellas estaban muy concentradas en su danza y unos estaban de un lado al otro.

Al salir de la iglesia fui a buscar a mi suegro con mis hijos, mi esposo había cocinado una rica sopa para comer en familia, la unión familiar es muy importante, al llegar a casa ya la sopa estaba lista así que servimos el almuerzo, mi suegro estaba contento ya que el no sale mucho de su casa y lo vemos de vez en cuando por lo menos yo cuando lo visitamos.

Según los tiempos antiguos no se podía comer carne en la semana Santa, sin embargo de unos años para a acá la gente come lo que puede, antes se comía puro pescado y en varias partes venden el pescado seco, en esta época la gente suele abusar con el precio del mismo aunque aún así venden bastante, nosotros comemos lo que se pueda si hay pescado comemos pescado sino la carne o pollo, lo que se pueda, no se de donde sacaron eso de puro pescado??, recuerdo que cuando estaba chiquita era así, luego de grande ya mamá no le hacía caso a eso.

Conversando con mi suegro en el almuerzo el también tenia esa tradición que se fue perdiendo con los años, recuerdo que decian que si comías carne te podías morir, o que te ibas a convertir en un animal, que se yo tantas cosas que eran mentira, muchas de estas tradiciones las invento una persona y todos las creyeron, lo bueno es que ya nadie hace coso a esas doctrinas que eran mentira, como muchas otras.

Pasamos un gran almuerzo en familia y también hablamos por teléfono con algunos familiares fiera del país para ponernos al día de todo, la familia es el mayor tesoro que tenemos en la tierra, por eso debemos cuidarlo.