Ukrainian, Russian women hold cross together at Rome’s Via Crucis
By Carol Glatz – More than 10,000 people gathered outside Rome’s Colosseum prayed with Pope Francis for peace in the world, while a Ukrainian and a Russian...
Category: Good Friday
The Cross’ Indispensable Invitation
In his book, The Passion and the Cross, columnist and author Fr Ron Rolheiser writes, “The cross of Jesus doesn’t just reveal God as unconditional love; it...
Ukrainians ask Vatican to reconsider plans for Via Crucis at Colosseum
By Cindy Wooden – The head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church asked Pope Francis to scrap plans to have a Ukrainian woman and a Russian woman carry...
How Do I Worship Wood?
On Good Friday our priest came into church singing: This is the wood of the cross. Come let us worship. How do I worship wood? Please explain....
Pope Asks Families to Write 2022 Way of the Cross Meditations
By CNS – 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....
Diakonia Council of Churches Good Friday Service
Diakonia Council of Churches, whose legacy of working towards a just society for more than four decades, is calling all people of faith in the Durban area...
Stations of the Cross: The Depth of Christ’s Love
By Katie Peterson – From partaking in the sacrament of reconciliation to fasting to choosing what to give up, Lent is full of traditions that Catholics around...
Holy Week at Our Lady Of Lebanon Church in Johannesburg
Text by Mark Kisogloo, Images: Fibrestream Covid this year could not stop the zeal of Maronite parishioners at Our Lady Of Lebanon, South of Johannesburg. Mass was...
The Pope’s Good Friday
By Cindy Wooden – As Pope Francis presided over the Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion, the preacher of the papal household called on bishops and all Catholics...
Pope Leads Via Crucis With Young People In Torch-Lit St Peter’s Square
By Carol Glatz – For the second year in a row, Pope Francis led the Way of the Cross from St. Peter’s Square rather than Rome’s Colosseum...
Why Good Friday Matters
And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, by...
Good Friday: Jesus Suffers With the World
Pope Francis has often urged us to prayerfully meditate before the crucifix. Because by prayerfully meditating before the crucifix, one can see and begin to understand the...
