For the first time, adult female participants adorned the Good Friday parade in Mosta. This is a very good development.

The costumes they wore were excellent. Hopefully, in the future more women with private costumes would adorn this procession – church-owned attires are somehow less cared for.

Perhaps it would be a good idea if women wearing costumes with the basilica colours start accompanying the magnificent monumental urn of the dead body of Christ. I’m saying this because, apparently, the clerical red Roman copes seem to have become redundant.

This would be more consonant to Pope Francis’s vision of an inclusive Church and, moreover, be more faithful to the gospel narratives. 

It was women (not priests) who followed John of Arimathea in the entombment of Jesus, bringing spices and perfumes with them (Luke 23, 55-56).

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