‘Sadly, it seems that the Basaan has leveled down to mere revelry and partying,’ says Anton Maria Francesco Carabeo in the faith chat room of the Rappler Communities app
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Barangay Bibiclat in the town of Aliaga, Nueva Ecija, marked the annual Taong Putik Festival on Monday, listed in the Catholic calendar as John the Baptist’s birthday. Covering themselves in mud symbolizes repentance from sin, the local parish said. It highlights “the grace of the human being’s return to God, which John the Baptist proclaimed in the desert,” said the Diocesan Shrine and Parish of Saint John the Baptist in a Facebook post on Sunday, June 23.
YOUNG AND OLD. The Taong Putik tradition is passed on from generation to generation. Photo by Angie de Silva/Rappler In these cities, but most especially in San Juan which is named after the saint, devotees douse each other with water – not sparing even passersby – in memory of John the Baptist who baptized his followers and even Jesus in the Jordan River.
REMEMBERING BAPTISM. For Catholics, water symbolizes the sacrament of baptism. Photo by Anton Maria Francesco Carabeo via Rappler Communities
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