What are the Stations of the Cross? Stations of the Cross by Diocese of Little Rock, Arkansas – https://www.dolr.org/stations-of-the-cross From the earliest days of Christianity, pilgrims journeyed to Jerusalem to walk in the footsteps of...
By Illa Thompson – The Passion Play, performed by the Durban Catholic Players’ Guild, embodies love—both spiritual and secular! Cast members claim their involvement in the Durban Passion Play to be life-changing in myriad ways. For one...
Every five years the Durban Catholic Players’ Guild presents the Durban Passion Play—and this year marks the show’s 15th production. The play re-enacts the story of the Passion of Christ, starting from Palm Sunday...
Easter / Fr Ralph de Hahn / Good Friday / The Cross
by Fr Ralph de Hahn · Published April 19, 2019 · Last modified April 17, 2019
As Mary stood at the foot of the cross, she will have thought of how the prophecies of Scripture led up to this moment, as FR RALPH DE HAHN explains. We are deeply indebted...
By Sheldon Vandrey – Every year on Good Friday at 10:00, our parish of the Holy Spirit in Arcadia, Port Elizabeth, hosts its Passion play, performed by the youth group and other young people in...
Carrying a cross in our pockets can be a beautiful prayer. There are times when we pray with words and times when it is just the silence of our hearts — like St John Vianney who used to say about his prayer in from of the Blessed Sacrament: “I just look at him and he looks at me.”
Conversion / Easter / Fr Ralph de Hahn / Good Friday / Jesus
by Kilian SC · Published March 30, 2018 · Last modified March 26, 2018
This Holy Week we will hear a lot about redemption and how Christ’s death on the cross redeemed mankind. In our modern usage, to redeem something means “to buy it back”; and in Holy Week we can use that idea.
During Lent, the faithful practise the devotion of the Stations of the Cross. Prof MICHAEL OGUNU explains the history and purpose of that devotion. Stations of the Cross is a devotion, especially during Lent,...
Christians in the Eastern Cape will make a Good Friday pilgrimage in support of plans for a huge crucifix proposed for a mountain in Grahamstown. Organised by the King Lobengula Foundation, the pilgrimage will...
The Cross, which we behold in a special way on Good Friday, was used as a method of capital punishment by many societies, including the Romans, from about the 6th century BC to the 4th century AD. Constantine the Great, the first Christian emperor, abolished it in his empire in AD 337, out of veneration for Jesus Christ, the most famous victim of crucifixion.
Easter / Good Friday / Religious Art / The Cross
by Tamar SC · Published April 14, 2017 · Last modified April 12, 2017
A grim-faced Pontius Pilate stares straight ahead, while Jesus, bound with rope, stands beside him, head down. Jesus turns a tortured face heavenward as he falls for the first time under the weight of...
The Chaldean Catholic patriarch is supporting a more than 80-mile peace march during Holy Week to urge an end to violence in his homeland and throughout the Middle East. The Chaldean Catholic Church has...
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