
Cardinal George Pell’s Via Crucis in Sydney
COMMENTARY: What was present last week on College Street in Australia was a dramatic public witness of the cross of Christ not in life, but in death.
COMMENTARY: What was present last week on College Street in Australia was a dramatic public witness of the cross of Christ not in life, but in death.
The meditation for “Jesus Dies on the Cross” was written by members of a Ukrainian and a Russian family. It was not read out during the Via Crucis at Rome’s Colosseum on April 15.
For the 13th station, ‘Jesus dies on the Cross,’ a Ukrainian family and a Russian family will read a reflection that they wrote together about how their lives were upended by the pain of war.
With Italy under lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, this was the first time in decades that the Via Crucis was not held at the Colosseum, a Roman amphitheater associated with the Christian martyrs.
The Pope said the prayer at the conclusion of the Via Crucis at the Colosseum.
Bishop Emeritus Renato Corti of Novara preached the annual Lenten spiritual exercises to the Roman Curia in 2005.
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