Holy Week in Tinharé

Written by Sr. Silvia Corado do Amaral & Sr. Patrícia & Sr. Rosivonete -- Salvador Province

Every year, our community celebrates the Holy Week in a different place. Our intention is to be in poor places where there are no priests or missionaries to help the community to celebrate this very important time in our church.

This year, we went to Tinharé, a small village where our Sisters are working as missionaries. This community is very poor. People work very hard to make a living. Men and women fish every day and sell their product for very little money.

This community is very open, welcoming and full of life. Every one loves to sing, to dance, to pray, to be together and celebrate life. Adult people teach their traditional culture to the young generation and this gives a lot of energy and excitement to the community. During the days we spent there, we visited a lot of families, prepared presentations on the Gospel with children and the youth and helped to give a lot of life to every ceremony we had in the church.

After the ceremony of the resurrection on Saturday evening, we had a very nice moment of entertainment with music, dance and a lot of joy. The community really enjoyed this moment.

We believe that we can bring the good news of Jesus Christ in a very joyful way helping people to celebrate their faith without loose their original culture.

We left Tinharé on Easter Sunday with a lot of “saudade". We hope to go back there some day.