Let the Children Come to Me: Pope Francis' Via Crucis Meditations Written By Kids
Friday, Apr. 23, 2021
By Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY — Knowing that Rome, like all of Italy, would be under varying degrees of lockdown during Holy Week and Easter, Father Luigi D’Errico asked youngsters in his parish to draw illustrations and write a series of reflections on the Way of the Cross.
It was a way to involve the nearly 500 adolescents, who were often stuck at home given all the restrictions against larger gatherings for parish activities and liturgical celebrations, he told Vatican News March 30.
What they didn’t know was that their personal reflections on the crosses they bear and the comfort they find in Jesus would be among those chosen for the Way of the Cross meditations at the Vatican, he said.