The Road Report
The Chapel
November 29, 1998
The Retreat House/Villa House in Baguio, known as Mirador, has a quite beautiful chapel designed by a Jesuit who was working in the area. Besides the breathtaking view, the chapel incorporates local tribal images and metaphors in its design. This is where we had our renewal of vows ceremony.

Tabernacle done in the fashion of a native hut. The red cloth behind the tabernacle represents the local mountains.


The tabernacle can also be used for exposition of the Sacrament. The base of the chapel represents the local agricultural terracing.



The altar is a native design table/work bench vaguely in the shape of a pig, an important animal.



Detail of tabernacle door.



View from one of the windows in the chapel.



Presider's chair in the shape of a human person. >


Carving of the stations of the cross done by a native craftsperson.



Another vignette of the stations.



General Index of Travel Photographs



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