lunes, 28 de septiembre de 2009

Cuasimodo festivity



Dear Sunny,
How you doing? I hope you're doing great in New York! We all miss you here, and because as you know Easter was a very special time, is a pitty you had to go so fast, you missed Cuasimodo festivity... It was two days after you left, the Sunday after Easter and it's only celebrated here in central valley of Chile and it's organized by the peasant in here. It’s a day in which “cuasimodistas” expect anxiously, because they have a chance to demonstrate their grandeur faith to everybody by preparing the spurs, making the decoration of their horses, bikes and even vans with months in advanced. They also make garlands and signs to announce the arriving of Christ, so and then they make the communion to sick and old people, it would be very important to you because I know you're Catholic and you like to help people.
As you know, nothing in Chile is made by our own imagination and creativity, and this is not the exception. Because of the Council of Trento celebrated by the Catholic Church in Spain , it was established the convenience of taking communion at least once a year. According to this rule, which was spread out in America, it was common for priests to take the communion to sick people who couldn’t assist to the church. And because the priest and his delegation needed protection along their trip in rural paths, where a bandit could stole them, so after years of the same habit, community get into the tradition and also they had to remember the resurrection of Christ, the real miracle of Christian faith, so now men, women, kids and young people run on their horses or bikes next to the carriage of the priest, wearing white headscarves and yellow capes, in honor to the papal emblem. Now entire families, neighbors and group of friends make clubs to be part of this festival you have missed.
I have never had someone to go with, so I hope next year you'll be my partner to go, because I think you would like it just like just like me...
Well, I hope you'll be enthusiastic about Cuasimodo festivity, I know you will...
See you next year
Send greetings to your family
Take care

Fernanda Maturana

PS: I send you some pictures for you to see them and make a really good impression of what I'm talking about.

2 comentarios:

Ronda dijo...

I've never heard of this festival. Where can I go watch it next Easter?

You gave lots of details about the festival and the origin of it, but you didn't mention if you enjoyed it.

assist church = attend church
stole them = rob them

Fernanda Maturana dijo...

Dear Sunny,
How you doing? I hope you're doing great in New York! We all miss you here, and because as you know Easter was a very special time, is a pitty you had to go so fast, you missed Cuasimodo festivity... It was two days after you left, the Sunday after Easter and it's only celebrated here in central valley of Chile and it's organized by the peasant in here. It’s a day in which “cuasimodistas” expect anxiously, because they have a chance to demonstrate their grandeur faith to everybody by preparing the spurs, making the decoration of their horses, bikes and even vans with months in advanced. They also make garlands and signs to announce the arriving of Christ, so and then they make the communion to sick and old people, it would be very important to you because I know you're Catholic and you like to help people.
As you know, nothing in Chile is made by our own imagination and creativity, and this is not the exception. Because of the Council of Trento celebrated by the Catholic Church in Spain , it was established the convenience of taking communion at least once a year. According to this rule, which was spread out in America, it was common for priests to take the communion to sick people who couldn’t attend church. And because the priest and his delegation needed protection along their trip in rural paths, where a bandit could stole them, so after years of the same habit, community get into the tradition and also they had to remember the resurrection of Christ, the real miracle of Christian faith, so now men, women, kids and young people run on their horses or bikes next to the carriage of the priest, wearing white headscarves and yellow capes, in honor to the papal emblem. Now entire families, neighbors and group of friends make clubs to be part of this festival you have missed.
I have never had someone to go with, so I hope next year you'll be my partner to go, because I think you would like it just like just like me...
Well, I hope you'll be enthusiastic about Cuasimodo festivity, I know you will...
See you next year
Send greetings to your family
Take care

Fernanda Maturana

PS: I send you some pictures for you to see them and make a really good impression of what I'm talking about.