For 25 years, there has been a rite of passage at St. Bernadette Catholic Academy. Each eighth grade student is given a role in a living performance of the Passion, performed for their family, younger classmates, and parishioners on Good Friday.
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For 25 years, there has been a rite of passage at St. Bernadette Catholic Academy. Each eighth grade student is given a role in a living performance of the Passion, performed for their family, younger classmates, and parishioners on Good Friday.
Ruben Enaje, a Filipino villager, has once again undergone the harrowing ritual of being nailed to a wooden cross, marking his 35th time in a symbolic reenactment of Jesus Christ’s suffering on Good Friday.
Bishop Robert Brennan is observing Good Friday on March 29 with a series of solemn ceremonies and processions across the borough.
The Way of the Cross procession over the Brooklyn Bridge on Good Friday, April 7, gave several hundred participants that chance to walk with Jesus and offer profound gratitude for his sacrifice more than 2,000 years ago.
One week after Pope Francis was released from the hospital, having been admitted for a bout of bronchitis, the Vatican announced that he will not preside over the late-night Way of the Cross procession on Good Friday as planned due to cold weather.
“Nothing should take precedence” over Good Friday — and that includes the baseball team’s home opener, said Bishop David A. Zubik of Pittsburgh in an April 5 statement shared after the diocese had received inquiries about a possible dispensation from the fasting and abstinence that is integral to the solemn day.
An annual Good Friday pro-life prayer vigil that takes place in locations across the country will continue post-Roe, organizers said.
“The Troubles” of Northern Ireland — a dispute between Catholic nationalists and Protestant loyalists — roiled violently for three decades until the Good Friday Agreement of 1998.
I really wanted the Sonic drink. But it was the first Friday of Lent, and I gave up Sonic for Lent. So there I was sitting at the stoplight, fighting myself on whether or not I would turn left to Sonic or right to get home.
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.