el servicio
in the evening on good Friday, people go to church to express el pésame a la virgin
(Condolence to the virgin), following a very typical custom among the Spanish-speaking
of going to visit a family in which a death has occurred to express to them
sympathy and sincere sorrow, this ceremony is equivalent to another celebrated elsewhere,
el servicio
del santo entierro,
which usually includes prayers, songs and a sermon on the love and suffering of
jesus with an invitation to repentance. Usually, the
church is darkened and in the center by the altar there stands, spotlighted, la dolorosa (our lady of sorrows)
dressed in black.