Young adults from the Jornada Movement at St. Catharine of Alexandria Church led a realistic Way of the Cross through the streets of Borough Park on Good Friday. After the two-hour procession, Auxiliary Bishop Octavio Cisneros joined the parish family to preside over the afternoon liturgy.
Images of Good Friday processions throughout Brooklyn and Queens.
More than 200 parishioners of all ages commemorated Jesus’ crucifixion on Good Friday by carrying a cross throughout the streets surrounding St. Teresa of Avila parish in South Ozone Park.
by Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) – The often silent plight of sexually abused children, victims of domestic violence, prisoners, the abandoned elderly, the unemployed and immigrants facing hostility will be given a powerful voice during the Stations of the Cross at Rome’s Colosseum. Thousands of pilgrims and millions of television viewers will be asked […]
BROOKLYN St. Frances de Chantal, Borough Park — Polish Palm Contest, April 13, 11 a.m. for tallest and most beautiful palm. Call 436-6407. St. Finbar, Bath Beach — Tenebrae Service, April 15, 8 p.m. Spanish, and April 16, 8 p.m. English. Call 236-3312. St. Frances Cabrini, Bath Beach — Holy Thursday Mass of the Last […]
Several hundred people attended outdoor Stations of the Cross on Good Friday, March 29, at St. Andrew Avellino Church, Flushing. More than 40 confirmandi from the parish school and religious education program conducted the Stations in full costume under the direction of Maria Tortorella, religious education director. Ivan Barrera was selected to portray Jesus. Father […]
The parish youth group at St. Clare’s, Rosedale, performed a live dramatization of the Stations of the Cross on Good Friday at the church. The 20 youth group members are mostly high school students who are parishioners at St. Clare’s, with a few performers being students at the parish’s elementary school. Father Andy Struzzieri, pastor, […]
Former and present parishioners will gather at Brooklyn’s oldest Italian parish, Sacred Hearts and St. Stephen Church, Carroll Gardens, to solemnly process through the streets on Good Friday, April 6, beginning at 7 p.m. While the neighborhood has seen much change since the parish’s founding by Italian immigrants in 1882, this time- honored tradition and […]
