Maundy Thursday Lenten rites

Penitents carry wooden crosses as they walk near a carabao (water buffalo) during Maundy Thursday Lenten rites in a village in Angeles city, Pampanga province, north of Manila April 1, 2010. The Roman Catholic church frowns on the gory spectacle held in Philippine villages every Maundy Thursday or Holy Thursday but that does nothing to deter the faithful from emulating the suffering of Christ and taking a painful route to penitence.[Photo/Agencies]