Jorge Carretero Koch
Pedro José Tortosa Saorín
For the second consecutive year, our beloved processions will not take to the streets of Cieza. That week so awaited by the ciezano, the one of the colors and palms on the morning of Palm Sunday or the one of the silence broken by the violins in the early morning of Good Friday, will have to wait another year. It will be a different Holy Week than other years, but we will have one last resort...
What have we learned during all this time of pandemic?
In sight it is; The great magazine "El Anda", which unfortunately this year has not been able to come to light in its traditional format, has been adapted to an innovative format so that the usual reader can enjoy its curious articles and interviews, entitled Ecos de "El Go”.
Many of us have focused on the use of networks as a digital showcase and promotion of our Passion Week; Although this way of diffusion already existed before falling into this continuous bad dream, it was not given so much importance. Acts such as the Photography Contest carried out by the Junta de Hermandades Pasionarias or charity campaigns had to reinvent themselves. Even through video calls, the directives themselves have been able to continue working for the present and future of our Holy Week.
The updating of the social networks of the Brotherhoods and of the Board of Brotherhoods itself and the originality in their publications, are becoming avant-garde, seeking that greater dissemination of our processional parades. All this is possible thanks to the people who capture these beautiful scenes, immortalizing them. But it does not only stop at the fact of doing it, it goes further, because there is a clear message of passion and feeling.
During this Lent, many of us have been overwhelmed by remembering, through all this content, those Weeks parading with our Images or listening to that march that year after year makes us emotional. And it is that the great advantage of all this is the ability to bring our Easter to people from outside. Without going any further, in the second week of Lent, a training gathering was held electronically, being broadcast live on Facebook. In the morning, we received a thank you message that read as follows:
“Thank you for spreading the recording, I encourage you to continue working in this regard, I have felt very close to you even being miles away (Valencia). You have reminded me of the reason and feeling of Holy Week, of those of us who have participated in it (both as a brother and as a public).”
Sometimes we make the mistake of thinking that all this work is in vain, but messages of gratitude or encouragement like this one make us see the importance and repercussion that it really has, questioning another aspect; the immortality of social networks.
Perhaps we are not very aware, but all this published audiovisual content, which is to the delight of the ciezana family and which is very well treated by the broadcasters of our Holy Week, remains recorded for perpetuity and available to all. This is another of the great advantages that social networks provide; being able to view images and videos of Holy Weeks from other years thus seeing the evolution over time.
If we think of the Procession of the Penitent on Good Friday morning, the image of the Santísimo Cristo de la Expiración or the La Lanzada pass through the Esquina del Convento comes to mind. But not long ago, La Samaritana or San Pedro were the representatives of said Brotherhoods that paraded that morning. The same happens with the sculptural group La Sentencia, which a few decades ago began to parade in the same procession as El Lavatorio de Pilatos along with another step of its Brotherhood, San Juan; an atypical fact in our processions as we know them. If we did not have recordings of those moments, these events would be mere stories from our ancestors.
Today, thanks to all the facilities we have, we can generate audiovisual content, giving away that immortality for the delight of future generations. They will be able to admire and contemplate the evolution that, year after year, our Holy Week has, both artistically and culturally and historically, thanks to each one of the people who contributed and continue to contribute their dedication and enthusiasm to magnify our Holy Week.
