Good Friday With Elliot

For people baptised under the Roman Catholic Church and for those who remain to be attached with Christianity, the Good Lord is scheduled to be nailed on the cross and is going to die at 3pm.

My family was up so early today because my sister Ken who just arrived from Manila had an early meet-up with her barkada, and the rest of us attended a church activity which is the Via Crucis.

Via Crucis or the Way of the Cross is carried out every Good Friday. For those who are not familiar with Via Crucis, it is a pious devotion to the Lord’s sacrifice, death and resurrection.

To some, it’s more like reminiscing, reflecting and remembering the Passion of Christ.

Via Crucis has 14 Stations. In every station, devotees would listen to the Gospel related to the account on HIS Journey to Calvary.

But the ultimate purpose of this pious exercise is to leave the faithful with the sense of expectation of the resurrection in faith and hope.

Yes the Lord is going to die at 3pm.

HIS time will be up this afternoon on a GOOD FRIDAY and while waiting, I am going to spend the time listening to Elliot Yamin’s songs in his debut album.

The song is MOVIN’ ON. Yes siree. Finally, Elliot has come up with an album and I’m very ecstatic about it. The Yaminion movement has been validated and I couldn’t be so happy for Elliot. He was my choice for last season’s American Idol.

I was rooting for him but he was overshadowed by Katherine McPhee’s rendition of “Somewhere over the Rainbow” and Taylor Hicks’ salt n pepper hair. In spite of . . . , I had high hopes for him to be signed up by a large recording company and for him to have an album really soon.

It really was long overdue. Other AI finalists have already released their albums. I waited so long for Elliot to come up with an album of his own. I thought I lost my hope.  But I had faith in Ehhh-liiii-yottt. The long wait is over.

And I want to thank my Bro Bear for giving me a downloaded copy of Elliot’s album. For the past days I’ve been playing his music repeatedly in my notebook. Here’s another cut on the album.

Elliot’s new look could qualify him for the role as Jesus Christ for the Via Crucis. I know his Jewish so I just have to be content that somehow, he resurrected my hopes of hearing his voice again.

That even on a Good Friday, Elliot will be there to accompany me as I bide the time for my JESUS to die on the Cross.