Pope Encourages Catholics To Contemplate ‘Seven Sorrows’ Of Mary
By Cindy Wooden – Pope Francis asked people to keep a long tradition of Catholic piety by focusing on “the suffering and sorrows of Our Lady.” “Honor Our Lady and say, ‘This is my...
Category: Good Friday
Way of the Cross: Stabat Mater
What is the Stabat Mater? The “Stabat Mater” (the “Mother was Standing”) is a 13th-century Catholic hymn about Mary’s pain at the foot of her Son’s cross. The message of the Stabat Mater focuses on...
Why the Earth Trembled and All Went Dark
As Jesus died on the cross, the earth trembled and everything went dark. Paul de Marco inspects these phenomena. Thomas refused to believe that Jesus had risen from the dead, despite all the apostles...
Path To The Passion: Jesus Dies On the Cross – And Christ Is Risen
Follow Jesus’ Path to the Passion In this five-part series we will follow the paths of Jesus in the weeks and days before his crucifixion. By its nature, this will be a subjective interpretation...
Path to the Passion: The Two Trials Of Jesus
Follow Jesus’ Path to the Passion In this five-part series we will follow the paths of Jesus in the weeks and days before his crucifixion. By its nature, this will be a subjective interpretation...
Stations of the Cross Online
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...
Passion Play a Family Affair
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...
Passion Play Returns To Durban
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...
What Mary Pondered at the Cross
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...
Ask a Toddler Why Jesus Was Crucified
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...
Why Don’t We Want God’s Mercy?
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.”
How Christ Frees Slaves
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.
