Grant us, Lord Jesus, a grateful and pious heart to walk your sorrowful way with ... “Jesus was carrying his cross. Great show! But, if impiety contemplates it, great scorn; if piety, great mystery; ...

Cru­cify him!" (Jn 19: 5-6). Carrying his cross, Jesus goes out of the city to the place of the skulls-called Golgotha in Hebrew (Jn 19: 17). And they lay hold of a certain Simon from Cyrene ...

The somber pilgrimage, known as the Way of Sorrow or Way of the Cross, is performed by Catholics worldwide and depicts the 14 biblically recorded events in Jesus’ journey, including his condemnation ...

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The next mystery is the Sorrowful Mystery, which dwells on Jesus’ anguished prayers in Gethsemane, His flogging, being crowned with thorns, being forced to carry the cross, and His crucifixion. The ...

An innovative multidisciplinary and international research project has shed new light on the origin and diversity of the populations that inhabited Central Europe between the late 4th and 6th ...

(Matthew 27:31-35; Mark 15:20-23; Luke 23:26-32; John 19:16-18) The Fourth Sorrowful Mystery overlaps ... murder does not want Jesus to die while carrying his cross. They do not want him to ...

Scholars think that the Constanza gemstone, as it is known, dates from the fourth century CE. In this depiction, Jesus’s hands do not appear to be nailed to the cross, since they fall naturally ...

Lean on Community The fourth sorrowful mystery, the Carrying of the Cross, encapsulates the heavy burdens we bear. As Jesus carries his cross along his journey to Golgotha, he demonstrates the ...

At the beginning of JM Coetzee’s novel The Childhood of Jesus, the first part of his Jesus ... adaptation that captures all the sadness and mystery of Coetzee’s novels. Adapted by Eoghan ...

"I am trying to reach the lost, to show Alliance what Jesus did on Calvary," Mason Polinori said, explaining his mission. "Carrying the cross is to kind of show people there is another way ...

Nearly 1,000 parishioners followed as Catholic leaders took turns carrying the cross as Jesus did alone. "I'm thankful that he died for me and I'm reflecting on that today," said Deslin Andrews ...