The Good Friday service in St. Peter’s Square was held with no public participation because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Pope leads Way of the Cross in empty, torch-lit St. Peter’s Square
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Recalling Jesus’ death on the cross, Pope Francis led thousands on Good Friday in reflecting on the crosses of loneliness, fear and betrayal that crucify countless men, women and children in the world.
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Sister Eugenia Bonetti, a missionary nun who wrote the meditations for Pope Francis’ Way of the Cross service.
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The path walked by Jesus to his passion and death on the cross is the same path of indifference and marginalization taken by those who suffer in the world today, Pope Francis said.
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During this year dedicated to the younger generations, Pope Francis asked that the meditations for his Good Friday service be written by young people.
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Five young Peruvian stone carvers have spent the past year fashioning the life-size Stations of the Cross from six-foot-tall blocks of Italian marble for Holy Spirit Catholic Church, the newest parish in the Las Vegas Diocese.
Via Crucis: French woman’s meditations highlight victory of love
A French biblical scholar not only wrote the meditations to guide Pope Francis’ 2017 celebration of the Via Crucis at Rome’s Colosseum, she also designed her own set of Bible-based Stations of the Cross.
Pope asks French biblical scholar to write Way of Cross meditations
The service, which also draws a global television audience, will take place the night of Good Friday, April 14.