Our Lady of Turumba - Lupi Festival

Lupi Festival

The Seven days of Sorrows are known to the Philippines as Lupi fiestas:

• 1st Lupi or Biernes Dolores falls on the Friday preceding Palm Sunday.
• 2nd Lupi or Pistang Martes falls on Tuesday following Easter Sunday
• 3rd Lupi or Pistang Biyatiko falls on the 2nd Wednesday after Easter Sunday.
• 4th Lupi or Pistang Biyernes falls on the 3rd Friday after Easter Sunday.
• 5th Lupi or Pistang Linggo falls on the 4th Sunday after Easter Sunday.
• 6th Lupi or Feast of the Ascension falls on the 5th Sunday after Easter.
• 7th Lupi or Feast of the Holy Spirit falls on the Sunday of Pentecost.

The Image is also taken on a Procession on May 12, The Town Fiesta of Pakil. On the Sunday nearest September 15, The Catholic Church Celebrates the national feast of the discovery of the image.

Homage to the Virgin of Sorrows is done by the way of Song and dance, drumbeat and shill cries of its devotees that the people regard as co-sharing with Mary's Grief during the Passion of Christ. The Turumba episodes are called Lupi (meaning to Fold) it is so because at the closing of every festivities, the Novena Booklet is folded to mark the pause in preparation for the Next Lupi.

Dresses of the Virgin are Shredded and given to pilgrims as tokens. It was said that when the piece of cloth from the Virgin is kept close to one person, miraculous powers and against personal injury, accidents, fire and calamities happen.

The Statue is enshrined at the retablo in the main altar, The image is dressed in Violet as a sign of sorrow for her Son's passion (the color of Lent) And the Original image is enshrined in a separate retablo around bas reliefs of her Seven Sorrows at a chapel in the church. St Peter of Alcantara Parish is located in Pakil, Laguna; over facing Laguna de Bay