LORENZO in ILOILO 2012

A banner which says "DOING LENT" and hangs on the facade of the Jaro Church, welcomed us, the San Lorenzo Sub-community of St. John Vianney Theological Seminary when we visited Iloilo City from March 24-27, 2012.  Our few days in the island fell right in between the official semestral break and the early Holy Week schedule.  Thus, it was almost a SHOCK when our airline called us a few days before our departure date ... to inform that they were rebooking our flights!  Huh! To make the long story short ... we made it to Iloilo still ... with these photos as proof.  A transit flight to Manila was an extra treat for first time flyers.

Iloilo City is a cultural heritage area of sorts.  Old churches, ancestral houses, bridges and government houses depict the glory days of this queen city of the Visayas.  Other places we visited included the Archbishop's Palace where we had a tour of the Archdiocesan Repository of Religious artifacts, the Jaro  Church and the Iloilo Cathedral, the Ateneo de Iloilo and the Sta. Maria Parish, the St. Vincent Ferrer Seminary among others.