Diocesan News

Sorrowful Mother in Carroll Gardens

Auxiliary Bishop Paul Sanchez joined Msgr. Guy Massie, pastor; Father Cletus Forson, parochial vicar; and hundreds of past and present parishioners of Sacred Hearts-St. Stephen Church, Carroll Gardens, for the parish’s decades-old Good Friday street procession. Led by a large red cross, the faithful recall Christ’s Passion by candlelight, carrying statues of the Body of Christ in a gilded glass coffin and His mourning mother under the title of Our Lady of Sorrows, while members of the Congrega Maria SS. Addolorata sing Italian hymns played by an Italian funeral band.

 

Good Friday Procession 2014 from Sacred Hearts-St. Stephen Church, Carroll Gardens

Auxiliary Bishop Paul Sanchez, center, leads the way with Msgr. Guy Massie, pastor

Men carry the gilded glass coffin containing the statue of Christ's corpse

Local Knights provide an honor guard

The two-hour procession returned to church for Italian services