Pope Francis has instructed families affiliated with organizations that volunteer and help with the Catholic community to prepare for this year’s meditation and prayers on the Way of the Cross at the Colosseum in Rome on Good Friday.
C. Rubini CTC, Vatican News
Matteo Bruni, director of the Vatican’s communications office, said in a statement on Thursday that Pope Francis had entrusted the families with prayers and prayers for the Way of the Cross on Good Friday this year.
“Amoris Leticia This year, dedicated to the fifth anniversary of the Apostolic Exhortation to the Church, Pope Francis has joined hands with a number of organizations and organizations to volunteer and assist in preparing meditations and prayers on all areas of the Way of the Cross at the Colosseum on Good Friday.
“According to the chosen resolutions,” some families will carry the cross between the places on the way to the cross. ” The statement said.
Amoris Leticia Family year
This is an apostolic sermon written by Pope Francis after the Synod, addressing the pastoral care of families. Amoris Leticia.
March 19, 2021, about the beauty and joy of family love Amoris LeticiaThe church marked the fifth year of its publication.
On that day, the 10th Family Reunion with the Holy Father in Rome ends on June 26. Amoris Leticia Papa started the family year.
The Way of the Cross returns to the Colosseum
On Good Friday evening, the Pope will preside over the liturgy of the Lord in St. Peter’s Basilica. He will then lead the way to the Cross at the Colosseum at 9.15pm.
For the past two years, Kovid-19 has been leading the way to the Cross on Good Friday under the leadership of the Pope in St. Peter’s Square due to the Emergency. This year, as the infection slows, the candlelight vigil is returning to its usual way.
Thoughts
Every year, a group, organization, or individual is assigned to meditate on this devotional prayer in order to be inspired by the Lord’s persecution from different perspectives. Last year, Good Friday meditations and prayers were given to the children of the Scout Group and to a parish in Rome.
In the prayers on the way to the cross, the children described the “great and small sufferings” of their daily lives, such as abandonment from the fear of the dark, experiences of their limitations, threats at school, quarrels with parents, and fear of contagion.
In 2020, the pope also gave this task to prisoners in a prison in Padua, Italy. They talk about the pain of the family of a murdered man, the daughter of a man sentenced to life imprisonment, the suffering of an inmate’s mother, the hope of a priest who was convicted and later acquitted 8 years later, a prison teacher, a religious teacher, a prison official and a prison police officer. Spoke.