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by bcadmin | Apr 17, 2022 | Good Friday, lead, Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, News, News Analysis, Pope Francis, Russia, Ukraine, Via Crucis | 0 |
Pope Francis opted for graciousness Good Friday by inviting two women, one a nursing student named Albina and the other a nurse named Irina, one Russian and the other Ukrainian, to carry the cross during the traditional Via Crucis ceremony.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 16, 2022 | Coliseum, Good Friday, lead, News, Pope Francis, Vatican, Via Crucis | 0 |
Though the Way of the Cross is a 14-stations meditation on Jesus’ Passion, the attention of many was on the 13th station, when a Ukrainian and a Russian woman together carried the cross, despite an uproar among many Ukrainians.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 12, 2022 | Coliseum, Holy Week, lead, News, Pope Francis, Vatican, Via Crucis, Way of the Cross | 0 |
In yet another sign of Pope Francis’s spiritual closeness with Ukraine, on Good Friday a Ukrainian and a Russian family will carry the cross during one of the stations of the Via Crucis he will lead in Rome’s Coliseum.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 7, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Coliseum, Easter, Good Friday, lead, News, Pope Francis, Triduum, Vatican, Via Crucis, Way of the Cross | 0 |
Pope Francis has asked several families to write the prayers and meditations for his Stations of the Cross service at Rome’s Colosseum on Good Friday.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 3, 2021 | Catholic Church, Free Access, Good Friday, Holy Week 2021, News, Pope Francis, Vatican, Vatican News, Via Crucis, Way of the Cross | 0 |
Pope Francis presides at the Stations of the Cross outside St. Peter’s Basilica, April 2, 2021. Image ©Vatican Media CNA Staff, Apr 2, 2021 / 03:00 pm MT (CNA).- Pope Francis led the Way of the Cross, featuring meditations prepared by children, at the Vatican on Good Friday evening. With Italy still facing coronavirus restrictions,
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 10, 2020 | Coronavirus, Good Friday, Holy Week, lead, News, Pope Francis, Prisoners, St. Peter's Square, Vatican, Via Crucis | 0 |
Shortly after assuring of his closeness amid the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak on an Italian television program, Pope Francis on Good Friday yet again appeared in a nearly empty St. Peter’s Square to lead a livestreamed Via Crucis with meditations written by prisoners.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 10, 2020 | Good Friday, Holy Week, News, Pope Francis, Prison, Vatican, Via Crucis | 0 |
Meditations for Pope Francis’s “Via Crucis” ceremony on Good Friday were written by prisoners and their families, as well as crime victims and their families.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 3, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Good Friday, Holy Week, News, Prisoners, Vatican, Via Crucis, Way of the Cross | 0 |
While Pope Francis’s Way of the Cross service on Good Friday has been transferred to the Vatican because of the coronavirus pandemic, the meditations focus, as always, on those who share the pain, suffering and heartbreak that characterized Christ’s passion and death.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 10, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Colosseum, Good Friday, Lent, News, Pope Francis, prison ministry, Prisoners, Prisons, Vatican, Via Crucis | 0 |
Pope Francis has asked the prisoners, guards and the chaplain of a northern Italian prison to write this year’s Way of the Cross meditations.
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