UST aims for Guinness record for largest human cross
Posted at 02/23/2011
MANILA, Philippines - After building what may be the world's largest living rosary, the University of Santo Tomas (UST) is now eyeing a Guinness record for the biggest human cross.
On March 9, Ash Wednesday, more than 20,000 Thomasians will come together to "mark" a portion of the UST campus with a huge Dominican cross, a symbol of the university's Catholic and Dominican identity.
Priests and ministers mark the foreheads of parishioners with black ashes in the shape of a cross on Ash Wednesday to show repentance before God.
"The attempt at a world record is imbued with religious significance since on the said date the foreheads of the faithful are marked with the sign of Christ's saving cross," UST said in a statement.
It continued, "Members of the university are invited to participate in this symbolic activity that can also be their act of penance during the Lenten season."
A Eucharistic celebration at the UST grandstand will be held after the attempt to form the world's biggest human cross. The mass will be presided by University Rector Rev. Fr. Rolando V. de la Rosa, OP.
In December 2010, an estimated 24,000 students, faculty and staff of UST formed a human rosary circling the campus as they commemorated the feast day of the Immaculate Concepcion.
People assigned as the Hail Mary beads wore yellow shirts, while those tasked to represent Our Father beads, the Cross and the Center Medal donned blue shirts.
Those who were part of the connecting chains of the rosary, meanwhile, wore white shirts.
The participants also formed the phrase "Ave Maria."
On March 9, Ash Wednesday, more than 20,000 Thomasians will come together to "mark" a portion of the UST campus with a huge Dominican cross, a symbol of the university's Catholic and Dominican identity.
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"The attempt at a world record is imbued with religious significance since on the said date the foreheads of the faithful are marked with the sign of Christ's saving cross," UST said in a statement.
It continued, "Members of the university are invited to participate in this symbolic activity that can also be their act of penance during the Lenten season."
A Eucharistic celebration at the UST grandstand will be held after the attempt to form the world's biggest human cross. The mass will be presided by University Rector Rev. Fr. Rolando V. de la Rosa, OP.
In December 2010, an estimated 24,000 students, faculty and staff of UST formed a human rosary circling the campus as they commemorated the feast day of the Immaculate Concepcion.
People assigned as the Hail Mary beads wore yellow shirts, while those tasked to represent Our Father beads, the Cross and the Center Medal donned blue shirts.
Those who were part of the connecting chains of the rosary, meanwhile, wore white shirts.
The participants also formed the phrase "Ave Maria."
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