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What magical accent for influence

that rises and quickens the heart,

eager resurgence of indigence,

Lorca gives me power signals

shouting processions sacrosanct!

These verses he wrote the poet Lorca Enrique Alcaraz Jaén in 1,923, could well be the announcement, the call ... the invitation to the end, to witness the Holy Week in Lorca, and participate.

Serve this stanza as a portal for my cry.

Dear Presidents of the Brotherhoods of the Holy Week in Lorca, Distinguished Authorities, co-Corporation, brothers, dear countrymen, Ladies and Gentlemen:

We know all who feel attachment to this blessed Lorca, it is a land of contrasts.

The disparity for all, that is between us, seems part of our way of being, we exceed with ease by showing what is good in us that much, and when we express something or other not so good.

We are not able to do something with restraint, therefore, the aphorism "Either the Court or the Farm" seems made especially for those who live here.

Anything that we undertake Lorca gushes out of sheer enthusiasm, because it is to start putting it to work, as they say, but also put heart and soul and a special push that many attribute to our frontier past and passionate.

And believe me, no exaggeration, look: the Lorca is open and outgoing, to speak loud and expressive, and whether it is entertainment, we are the most welcoming people in the world, on the other hand, in Lorca have a river that part of the city in two, but either does not carry any water spills or without notice, and another thing, if we must have a land on which to settle, we are not satisfied with little, no, we are the largest municipality in Spain, in addition, here in Lorca, the blue of our sky turns indigo deepest imaginable, and think more, our ancestors built a castle, and overestimated the stars, and more, if the stone of our monuments is to brown with the afternoon sun, our sunsets the light almost to the fire.

So the extremes are to so many things ... and to commemorate the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Christ could not change the collective personality that dominates and characterized.

Our commitment has always been put into making the processions and parades of Semana Santa de Lorca a unique and extraordinary event, "a different passion, and with them we are now capable of causing shock, to build anticipation and lead to emotional outburst more stark.

Those who live on this earth do not understand half measures, do not like doing anything but half, and exaltation, fanaticism and even well understood, comes out when to defend or enlarge what is ours.

"Lorca in the end" it is said by those who know us and love us, for which we accept as we are, without trying to change one iota of what we feel or do.

And here I am, dear friends, dear citizens of this Lorca wide body and soul, brave brothers of the Steps Lorca, I come to preach because they have decided the presidents of the fraternities, and because for any Lorca is honored to accept such order, today I come before you, before all you do and feel the Holy Week in Lorca, the great commission to proclaim, once again, the new cycle of processions of our city that begins, no discussion possible, when the Virgin of Sorrows, with his face downcast and serene at the same time, looks at the door of San Francisco.

Before and in keeping with an ancient tradition, and the steps have done, to great fanfare with trumpets, drums and flags flying, the particular advertisement to participate in the processions.

An ad that means almost everything about the extraordinary way we understand the Lorca's most sacred mysteries.

I come today as passionate Lorca, border and exalted, as processions convinced, to proclaim our particular expression of popular piety, to say to all who want to hear that only one is called Sun City and that under the same sun, in spring , the people of Lorca is still capable of deploying all that magnificence Salvador Rueda knew synthesize tercets splendidly in his well known poem:

Angels, patriarchs, dignities,

Symbols and Divine Majesties

pass between waves of greatness.

And amazed that parade ever seen

as if the party dedicated to Christ

Final Judgement was the Beauty!

But do not lose sight of the substance of what today brings us to this beautiful temple of San Mateo.

In any celebration of Easter in our country, with more or less established attend religious values, under the guise of absolute diversity, lead to a common point, recalling the mysteries of redemption.

All Easter processions, including ours, have identical liturgical significance.

But if we went to ask the processions of Seville, Málaga, Valladolid, Zamora, Cartagena and Murcia, on the religious background, or splendor, or popularity, or decency, and even artistic and emotional superiority that is their week Santa, patentizarían answers so clear that, despite the doctrinal unity, no two alike Holy Weeks.

And now we should ask: where are forged these formal differences?

They are contrasts that belong exclusively to the field of cultural tradition and, therefore, if we turn to analyze how born and develops this tradition, never reached fully understand the peculiarities of worship, or musicals, or the artistic different ways to celebrate and represent the Passion of Christ.

A few love Lorca and Easter, which are the generality of Lorca, we like to get into the cultural tradition they answer our processions of Holy Week, we are pleased to investigate its essence and clearly visualize what are the nuances, the quirks and undeniable values that have been forged in more than four centuries of history that have our guilds.

And especially in the last 150 years that raised the most notable distinguishing features that have given our passion shows status of International Tourist Interest.

But what are the defining features of the tradition on which our Holy Week?

Without hesitation, the first of all be sincere devotion and deep attachment to a religious tradition in Lorca, as in many other places, beginning with a precise date, remembered by all that takes us back to the beginning of the Middle Ages .

But Lorca would have to wait for more than two centuries for the first penitential groups made their appearance in the sixteenth century, beginning with those that externalization of the faith expressed in plastic form.

Lorca was, until the first half of the nineteenth century, a procession to the way we might call traditional seat and made them a sort of direct popular pedagogy, easily understood, which commemorates each year the soteriological message that contain the main parts of the Gospel.

The constant repetition of this cycle was also set on the images composing it affects far more mystical and human inclinations and a depth that have been maintained and transmitted from generation to generation.

Can not be understood otherwise so true that love, passion and reverence unleashed unlimited Lorca that feel and show the pictures to our Steps, Fraternities and Guilds.

Only then, based on the traditional devotion, Understanding of living, palms, hot tears of emotion in verbal and compliments almost gallant, that stand between tissues in the Virgen de la Soledad, de la Piedad, de los Dolores , bitterness, the Incarnation, our Virgin, which are many and one at the same time.

Only in this way is understandable earthy piety, inexplicable emotional magnetism that are causing the starkest images of Christ immersed in his passion, and so must remember the anguish in the Garden of Olives, the submission of Christ in his arrest Rescue The resignation of Lord of penance when he was beaten and abused, the agony of Jesus of Nazareth, Christ of Forgiveness way to Golgotha, the final tear of the crucified Christ of the Blood, looking at the sky in agony, and the peace of Christ Reclining who gave his life, the crowning moment of redemption, and is buried.

And only then can we fathom that mixture of joy and bustle for a revival here in Lorca, we live in majestic Hallelujah to the Risen Jesus, "The Drainer" beautiful carving thank everyone Roque Lopez, the best disciple of Salcillo.

That fervor expressed in silent procession, penitential and sublime, is still alive in Steps Purple, Incarnate, the Curia and risen.

Guilds small (not children), they bring their beauty, devotion and religiosity Easter Lorca

These brotherhoods were not incorporated into their daily fashion to represent biblical scenes, a feature that assumed, as a sign of their own, White and Blue.

Among them is the historical trajectory archicofradía longest uninterrupted in our city, the Risen Lord.

These include the Brotherhood of the Curia, which fills austere dignity the most beautiful corners of the old part of Lorca.

These, too, the Blood of Christ, the Lord of Penance and Our Lady of Solitude, with its passionate performances can drag an entire neighborhood and join in a single silent.

And among them also the Christ of Forgiveness, which rezaores, given the silence and recollection of all, with simple lines, which are passed from father to son in the garden secular tradition Lorca, recall the truth and significance of what happened on Golgotha.

In the identification of Lorca with any representation of divinity can be seen always simple and unaffected piety, without complications.

A devout faithful commitment is acquired almost at birth, and that manifests itself strongly when we are able to declare, in a conscious and militant belonging to a color, a neighborhood, or loyalty to a flag in Lorca flicker, the sound of each song, about self-absorbed passion imaginary territories.

The poetry reflects precisely all that wealth of intimate feelings:

Our Lady of Bitterness, little way of Calvary.

Thorns worn on the chest, white lilies in their hands.

His eyes look to heaven with his look weary.

And if that Rafael Sánchez Campoy wrote it is no less intensity when José Luis Molina gives us variations on the same pain:

When the light of Sorrows roar erupts blind emotion not included. She, loneliness, pain, bitterness.

In its wake, silence.

Then again, shouting.

And in the background of this devotion internalized always hear the bolts that cut chilly night in San Cristobal and everlasting and monotonous chant ascending, laborious, the steep path crosses that way.

Not faithfully fulfill the task of Pregonero if not time for me to recount a sublime and moving every Easter, on Holy Thursday night, returning to the atrium of San Cristobal on my shoulders after carrying the Christ of the Blood, before lowering the poles the ground, grazing and the soil so that the Cross can cross the porch of the Church, the legs are not under the weight of the litter, but by the emotional weight of a dart master Salvador Marcos Romera, that tears the night Curro Piñana voice:

San Cristobal is a scream

of silence by watching

Best of the Blessed

with his blood shed

Rabalero, rabalero

Ay!

My Father Rabalero

Ay!

my Cristo de la Sangre

clavaíco in Maero

That sentence is so great

Your Mother and the whole neighborhood.

Frank and deep devotion, expressed sometimes with bold and outrageous, at other times pure declaimed to cry for a people who are moved by the bitterness and pain, and in many cases, such as write Muñoz Barberán, suffice to say just flowers All: Our fervor flowering carnation.

You go.

With shouting and praise you carnations.

No we do other honors.

And we do not know, kind of carnations accepted that it covers the way you keep hasty.

Images virgin, living and clapping, music, flags, flowers and devotion are not enough to close the circle of the essence of our processions.

Are an important part, perhaps the most surprising and even disturbing to those who are not familiar with, but are most unique to talk about.

So far I have spoken of devotion overflowed, is the first of the hallmarks of our peculiar way to live the Passion Week.

The second of the defining features that would put me in Jerusalem in which Lorca becomes as if it were a big props, such Biblical scenes which for so many years are the most attractive side of our processions.

Asensio Sáez, with sensitivity and gentleness that characterized him, Lorca processions defined as one of the most beautiful Spanish sacred performances, rounding out its assessment as follows:

Friday is here and the whole page Lorca is on, secret of a great book, Bible street looking for airing of the winds, the sweet aroma of the fields, the gold release of a mature sun will soon begin to pick up your tail behind the horizon ...

Made by condensing much wisdom in two words - traveling Bible - the traditional plastic behind our processions.

A historical tradition whose birth date is fixed on that Palm Sunday of 1855 when, as if for the first time, the Jewish people, with the apostles and the Lord mounted on the donkey, burst into the streets of our city.

But, it was not the first time since, as historians tell us, since 1589, and for some years, the brothers of San Roque and San Sebastian were on the evening of Palm Sunday procession into Jerusalem according to the Gospel that day.

That Hebrew People of the Whites, most of Bitterness Street Blue Step, would at the end of the street a Gospel drama unexpected consequences.

Both tableaux would provide a radically new horizon for our Easter to you very soon, he joined the Old Testament through the biblical typology.

A powerful weapon in the hands of the guilds allowed to recreate an allegorical cycle of Life and Passion of Christ through the figures of sacred history.

Lorca processions eventually be configured as a vita Christi, in the broadest sense of the term, and as a tribute to the Catholic Bible to copy, even the structure of the biblical books added in the 1870's, the primitive group Vision based on the Apocalypse of St. John.

In that symbolic richness of the beginning of Holy Week, played an important role rivalry between White and Blue, that noble emulation to refer the oldest programs explaining the processions, reveals that even then-upmanship to see who is producing more properly represented each group placed in the race, surprising or unusual scenes and grandiose.

All agreed on the 1960's in which Lorca procession embodied with strength and originality unparalleled triumph of Christianity over pagan religions, and joined this new concept proposals and formulations that have led us to this day.

Today our Easter is more than ever the itinerant Bible describing Asensio Sáez, a living lesson in history of Christianity that takes tradition to show us, from all possible viewpoints, splendid literalness of the Bible passages or historical reading allegorical groups intended to mean more than they appear, moral education lies in each character, and finally direct contemplation of those key players-Christ and his Mother-in which everything comes together and takes on its full meaning.

Assyrian-Babylonian civilization, the Egypt of the pharaohs, the royal dynasties of Israel, imperial Rome, prophet, sibyl, miracles and events that changed the course of time ... yet seen the light of a new era, all pending the great Parousia, all explained admirably under the sign of the Cross.

Historians may now be noted successes and blunders of the past, anyone could invoke the purity of tradition and a thousand and a misunderstanding and excesses, it might bring up all that and more, and nothing tarnish minimally formal beauty and the complex religious content of a procession made here in our own way, with excess, with contrasts, with passions inconceivable that translate gestures, expressions and unusual acts learned from our elders.

As much as it may seem, there is nothing strange when Lorca gather and cheer the flag of a step, no surprise because Antony and Cleopatra, Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, or Esther and Ahasuerus, wander our streets every Easter Uploaded on floats, cars and berths, there is inconsistency in which Moses and Nero share an unprecedented neighborhood, or that splendid horses, chariots, chariot, unseen shots follow and enhance the figures of kings, emperors and tyrants.

In Lorca all this is natural and even plausible for the ultimate goal being pursued.

Whoever wants to single out each of these representations is lost.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca