Apr 2, 2021
Today, Good Friday, people around the world engage in prayerful remembrance of the death of Jesus Christ on the cross on Mount Calvary. For Christians, it is the most solemn day of the year.
Unfortunately, like during most of last year, there is much additional suffering and death upon which Christians and non-Christians alike are pondering and agonizing, a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The past year has been a terrible “journey” of a scope hardly anyone ever imagined could happen in this time of medical breakthroughs often referred to as miracles. But yet, this planet has been victimized, and there exists no sign that COVID-19-related suffering and death will end anytime soon.
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The stairway to Calvary in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem (Pixabay/Piotr Pindur)
As I listened to Jesuit Fr. James McDermott read the Passion from the Gospel of Mark this Palm Sunday, I closed my eyes and my imagination took me back to late December 2019, when I had the opportunity to visit Jerusalem and parts of Israel.
I was there to be a member of the interreligious jury for the Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival. We formed a small jury, including Benjamin Freidenberg, a Jewish film professor from Jerusalem, and Kamal Hachkar, a Muslim filmmaker from Marrakesh, Morocco.
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Christus St. Michael Stations At The Cross April 2
Christus St. Michael Health System will host Stations of the Cross at 12:00 p.m., on Good Friday, April 2, at Sisters’ Park on the CHRISTUS St. Michael campus in Texarkana.
“We invite people of all faiths to join us for this special event as a meaningful way of observing Good Friday,” said Rev. Lawrence X Chellaian, Vice President of Mission Integration, CHRISTUS St. Michael.
The Stations of the Cross or the Way of the Cross, also known as the Way of Sorrows or the Via Crucis, refers to a series of images depicting Jesus Christ on the day of his crucifixion and accompanying prayers, according to Fr. Lawrence. The stations grew out of imitations of Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem believed to be the actual path Jesus walked to Mount Calvary.